Marcus Bourne Huish (25 November 1843 – 4 May 1921) was an English barrister, writer and art dealer. He was the son of Marcus Huish of

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and his wife Margaret Jane Bourne. His mother died in 1847 and in 1849 his father remarried Frances Sarah Darwin, daughter of Sir

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. Bourne was the editor of ''

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'' from 1881 to 1892 and was the first managing director of the

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. He was a

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and was given the honour of Chevalier of the Order of the Sacred Treasure.Huish, Marcus Bourne (1843–1921), Textile Research Center, Leiden
/ref> He was the Honorary Librarian of the

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Biography for: Marcus Bourne Huish
at www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk * https://web.archive.org/web/20060329044242/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/071030/0710309163.HTM * * 1843 births 1921 deaths English art collectors Collectors of Asian art English barristers 19th-century English people English orientalists People from Castle Donington {{England-writer-stub