The Marsh Biography Award is a British literary award, given to the author of the best biography written in the previous two years by a British author. It was established in 1987 and is presented biennially. It is one of a group of 41 awards given by the Marsh Christian Trust, in the areas of conservation, science, the arts, heritage, literature and volunteering, known collectively as the Marsh Awards. The Marsh Christian Trust and the English Speaking Union present this award in partnership.

Winners

• 2009 - Rosemary Hill
  Rosemary Hill
  Rosemary Hill is an English writer and historian. She has published widely on 19th and 20th century cultural history, but she is best known for God's Architect, her multi-award-winning biography of Augustus Pugin...
  
   - God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain
• 2007 - Maggie Ferguson
  Maggie Ferguson
  Maggie Ferguson is a violinist and bandoneonista who studied orchestral tango at Orquesta Escuela de Tango Emilio Balcarce in Buenos Aires from 2003. In 2009, with the Sydney Youth Orchestras Association , she created Tango Oz, Australia’s first national tango orchestra which she directs from the...
  
   - George Mackay Brown: A Life
• 2005 - John Guy
  John Guy (historian)
  John Guy is a British historian and biographer.Born in Australia, he moved to Britain with his parents in 1952. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Lytham, and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read history, taking a First. At Cambridge, Guy studied under the Tudor specialist Geoffrey...
  
   - My Heart is My Own
• 2003 - Brenda Maddox
  Brenda Maddox
  Brenda Maddox FRSL is an American author, journalist, and biographer, who has lived in the UK since 1959.Born in Brockton, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, she graduated from Harvard University with a degree in English literature and also studied at the London School of Economics...
  
   - Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA
• 2001 - Anthony Sampson
  Anthony Sampson
  Anthony Terrell Seward Sampson was a British writer and journalist. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford and served with the Royal Navy from 1944-47. During the 1950s he edited the magazine Drum in Johannesburg, South Africa...
  
   - Mandela
• 1999 - Richard Holmes
  Richard Holmes (biographer)
  Richard Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.-Biography:...
  
   - Coleridge: Darker Reflections
• 1997 - Jim Ring - Erskine Childers
• 1995 - Selina Hastings - Evelyn Waugh
• 1993 - Patrick Marnham
  Patrick Marnham
  Patrick Marnham is an English writer, journalist and biographer. He is primarily known for his biographies, where he has covered subjects as diverse as Diego Rivera, Georges Simenon, Jean Moulin and Mary Wesley. As a journalist, he has written for Private Eye, The Independent and The Spectator...
  
   - The Man who Wasn't Maigret
• 1991 - Hugh & Mirabel Cecil - Clever Hearts
• 1989 - David Gilmour
  David Gilmour
  David Jon Gilmour, CBE, D.M. is an English rock musician and multi-instrumentalist who is best known as the guitarist, one of the lead singers and main songwriters in the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has worked as a producer for a variety of...
  
   - The Last Leopard
• 1987 - Roland Huntford
  Roland Huntford
  Roland Huntford is an author, principally of biographies of Polar explorers. He lives in Cambridge, and was formerly Scandinavian correspondent of The Observer, also acting as their winter sports correspondent...
  
  - Shackleton

External links

• http://www.marshchristiantrust.org/default.asp?V_ITEM_ID=518
• http://esu.org/marshbiography/