Later Life
He married Kathleen Rose Goddard in 1921, but the marriage eventually broke up. They had a son, Victor Edward Neuburg (1924–1996), who became a writer on English literature. Neuburg would later start a relationship with Runia Tharpe, moving to live with her in Swiss Cottage, London.
In 1937 Jean Overton Fuller submitted a poem to The Poets' Corner and was drawn into Neuburg's circle, eventually becoming his biographer.
Victor Benjamin Neuburg died from tuberculosis on May 30, 1940. Dylan Thomas declared on hearing of Neuburg’s death:
Vicky encouraged me as no one else has done ...He possessed many kinds of genius, and not the least was his genius for drawing to himself, by his wisdom, graveness, great humour and innocence, a feeling of trust and love, that won’t ever be forgotten.
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