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Rupert Brooke was born in Warwickshire in 1887, and studied at King's College, Cambridge. Associated with London's literary Bloomsbury group, Brooke was renowned for his good looks as well as his literary ability; W. B. Yeats famously described him as 'the handsomest young man in England'. As part of his recovery from the depression and instability which led to his break from the Bloomsbury group, Brooke toured Canada and the United States, returning by way of Tahiti, where he is thought to have fathered a child. In 1915, after joining the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Brooke sailed for Gallipoli with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, but on the way contracted sepsis from an infected mosquito bite and died aboard a French hospital ship moored off the island of Skyros in the Aegean. he was buried in an olive grove on the island
