Commander Guy Montagu Marston

Born: 17 December 1871.

Died:   3 May 1928.

Commander Guy Montagu Marston served in the Royal Navy. He was born at Rempstone Hall, Dorset, to Rev. Charles D. Marston and Katherine Calcraft. Enlisting in the Royal Navy, he advanced to sub-lieutenant in 1892, and shortly thereafter served under Rear-Admiral Bedford on three punitive expeditions to the Gambia (February 1894), the Republic of Benin (September 1894), and Niger (February 1895). In 1901, Marston succeeded his uncle, William Montagu Calcraft, at Rempstone. The same year, he was made a full lieutenant, and in 1905 was promoted to commander, serving with the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty. He was a friend of English poet Rupert Brook, whom W. B. Yeats had called "the handsomest young man in England"; Brook was also a friend of Equinox contributor G.H.S. Pinsent, which may provide the connection to Aleister Crowley. Marston was an avid reader, and his library revealed an interest in the sexual researches of Freud, Krafft-Ebing, and Havelock Ellis. His interest in ritual magic led him to join the A∴A∴ on 22 February 1910 with the motto "All for Knowledge." on 12 November 1910, he would take command of the Blanche cruiser and leave for Devonport. On 9 May 1910 Crowley conducted the Bartzabel Working at Marston's Dorset home.

Aleister Crowley dedicated the poem "Ave Adonai" in The Winged Beetle to him.