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 | | He cultivated a reputation for eloquence and fast-living, and although he had established a reputation as a poet, he earned an even better reputation for gambling, womanizing and drinking in his studied emulation of the life of Charles James Fox. |
 | | Following Oxford, he entered into the Foreign Service, and owing to the national importance of his work at cipher desk, he was excluded from military service until 1917, when he joined the Grenadier Guards. |
 | | Almost all of his closest friends, including Shaw-Stewart, Horner, Asquith and John Manners were killed in the war, drawing him closer to Lady Diana Manners, whom he married in 1920. |
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