Henry Ware Eliot Jr

1879 – 1947

Henry Ware Eliot Jr was T S Eliot's older brother. >Eliot’s elder brother went to school at Smith Academy, and then passed two years at Washington University, St Louis, before progressing to Harvard. At Harvard, he displayed a gift for light verse in *Harvard Celebrities* (1901), illustrated with ‘Caricatures and Decorative Drawings’ by two fellow undergraduates. After graduating, he spent a year at law school, but subsequently followed a career in printing, publishing and advertising. He attained a partnership in Husband & Thomas (later the Buchen Company), a Chicago advertising agency, fro

• Harvard celebrities
• The Rumble Murders
• Excavations in Mesopotamia and western Iran