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Son of <b><a href="javascript:openpopup0()">George William Adamson</a></b> (1882-1922), a master car builder for the Interboro-Rapid Transit Co. (IRT)/New York Railways Co., 99th St & Lexington Ave, Manhattan, and of <b><a href="javascript:openpopup1()">Mary Lydia (Lily) (<i>n&eacute;e</i> Howard)</a></b>. His father, born in Glasgow, and his mother, born in Wigan, had moved in 1910 to New York City from Bombay.<SMALL><A HREF="#1"><B><SUP>1</B></SUP></A></SMALL><p> Sails (on the <i>Mauretania</i>?) to England with his mother and older sister Marie (1911-1966) to meet his relatives in Lancashire, returning to New York on the SS <i>Adriatic</i>, October 3rd 1913.</li></ul> <p align="center"><a href="javascript:;" onMouseOver="MM_displayStatusMsg('George and his sister Marie in New York, 1915');return document.MM_returnValue"><img SRC="starsandstripes.jpg" BORDER=0 TITLE="George and his sister Marie in New York, 1915"></a><p> <ul> <li><b>1916</b> Moves to an apartment on the 4th floor, 8 W 66th Street, Manhattan. <li><b>1917</b> Birth of his younger sister, Dorothy. <li><b>1919</b> In October his father petitions for naturalization. <li><b>1920</b> His father is admitted to become a citizen of the United States of America on January 23rd. <A NAME="text2"</A> <li><b>1921</b> His mother dies on February 22nd of puerperal fever and is buried two days later at Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, New York. Her sister, Florence (1887-1951), sails to New York on the SS <i>Carminia</i> in April and in July George sails again to England with her and his two sisters, Marie and Dorothy, on the Cunard liner <nobr>SS <i>Caronia</i></nobr>, landing at Liverpool on July 10th.<SMALL><A HREF="#2"><B><SUP>2</B></SUP></A></SMALL> The family decide George and his sisters should live with Florence and other aunts at 24 Upper Dicconson Street, Wigan, Lancashire. His father sails with them to Liverpool but returns in October to New York on board <i>The Baltic</i>. Living next door at no. 26 are cousins on his mother&#146;s side, and George strikes up a friendship in particular with <A HREF=vincenthoward.html><b>Vincent Howard</b></a> (1916-1995) and his sister, Marie (1913-2008), both his mother&#146;s first cousins.</ul> <p align="center"><a href="javascript:;" onMouseOver="MM_displayStatusMsg('George with his sisters, Marie, right, and Dorothy, on board SS. Caronia');return document.MM_returnValue"><img SRC="sscaronia.jpg" BORDER=0 TITLE="George with his sisters, Marie, right, and Dorothy, on board SS. Caronia bound for Liverpool, July 1921"></a><p> <ul><li><b>1922</b> Father dies at his home at 66 West 82nd St., New York on the morning of December 7th of heart complications (&#145;mitral stenosis; cardiac hypertrophy & dilatation&#146;, according to the death certificate) and is buried two days later in the family grave at Calvary Cemetery. By 1924 Vincent and Marie, like George, are orphans. <li><b>1930</b> Studies at the Mining and Technical College, Wigan, England. Completes University Matriculation Examination and enters Wigan School of Art part time in January, becoming full time in September, studying under L.T.&nbsp;Howells, ARCA, and leaving the college in December 1934. His course includes a year at Liverpool University Department of Education. <A NAME="text3"</A>Forges a lifelong friendship with Frank Pagett of Standish.<SMALL><A HREF="#3"><B><SUP>3</B></SUP></A></SMALL> <li><b>1931</b> Acquires dual nationality, British and American. <li><b>1935</b> Awarded the Oxford University Secondary Teachers&#146; Art Certificate, with distinction in Figure Composition and History of Painting. <li><b>1935-1939</b> <A NAME="text4"</A>Enters the Liverpool City School of Art part time, specializing in engraving under the Rome scholar, Geoffrey Wedgwood, RE;<SMALL><A HREF="#4"><B><SUP>4</B></SUP></A></SMALL> also attends the life classes. Through his sister Dorothy, studying at Liverpool University, he meets Peggy Diamond, a fellow student. In 1937 and 1939 he exhibits at the Royal Academy. <li><b>1939</b> First of many drawings to be published in <b><i><a href="punch.html">Punch</a></i></b>. Is now working three days per week as a visiting art master in a Liverpool secondary school. A second visiting appointment is cut short by the evacuation of the school. <li><b>1940-1946</b> Serves in the RAF; exhibits again at the Royal Academy in 1940. Becomes good friends with David N. Bungey, a fellow trainee in North America. In 1944 Adamson illustrates an article written by Bungey in the <i>Radio Times</i>.</ul> <p align="center"><a href="javascript:;" onMouseOver="MM_displayStatusMsg('Pegy Diamond, 1941');return document.MM_returnValue"><img SRC="peggydiamond1941.jpg" BORDER=0 TITLE="Peggy Diamond, photograph marked Peggidy, 10/12/1941 in George's own hand"></a><p> <ul><li><b>1943</b> Appointed <b><a href="warartist.html">official war artist</a></b> by the War Artists&#146; Advisory Committee (WAAC), under the chairmanship of Sir Kenneth Clark. <li><b>1944</b> Marries Mary Marguerita (Peg) Diamond of Millom, Cumberland.</li></ul> <p align="center"><a href="javascript:;" onMouseOver="MM_displayStatusMsg('George and Peggy Adamson at their wedding, May 1944');return document.MM_returnValue"><img SRC="wedding.jpg" BORDER=0 TITLE="George and Peggy Adamson at their wedding, May 1944"></a> <p> <ul><li><b>1946</b> Their first son, <b><a href="javascript:openpopup2()">Peter</a></b>, is born December 29th. <li><b>1946-1953</b> Lectures in engraving and illustration at Exeter College of Art, Exeter, Devon, where he becomes lifelong friends with <b><a href="williamruscoe.html">William Ruscoe</a></b>, MSIA (1904--1990), the lecturer in pottery. <li><b>1948</b> Exhibits two prints at the Royal Academy. <li><b>1949</b> A second son, <b><a href="javascript:openpopup4()">John</a></b>, is born October 20th. <li><b>1950</b> Wins &#145;Highly Commended&#146; in National European Recovery Programme (Marshall Aid) Poster Competition and &#145;Honorable Mention&#146; in the European finals of the same competition.</ul> <p align="center"><a href="javascript:;" onMouseOver="MM_displayStatusMsg('George Adamson. Taken by Frank Muscroft in the only Tudor Dark Room in England!! Exeter, July 1950');return document.MM_returnValue"><img SRC="pics/gwamuscroft1950.jpg" BORDER=0 TITLE="George Adamson. Taken by Frank Muscroft in the only Tudor Dark Room in England!! Exeter, July 1950"></a><p> <ul><li><b>1954</b> <A NAME="text5"</A>Works with the designer John Morgan, MSIA, for the design group, Byrne and Woudhuysen Limited (later Woudhuysen & Company Ltd) in Dover Street, London.<SMALL><A HREF="#5"><B><SUP>5</B></SUP></A></SMALL> <li><b>1954</b> Sets up as a full-time illustrator and cartoonist. Joins the Society of Industrial Artists (later Society of Industrial Artists and Designers, later Chartered Society of Designers). Around this time he becomes friends with the designer and craftsman, <b><a href="desmondsawyer.html">Desmond Sawyer</a></b>. <li><b>1957--60</b> Illustrates the <i>Word Perfect</i> English course written by Ronald Ridout, and still in print.</li> <li><b>1958</b> Publishes his first <i>Punch</i>&nbsp; cover.</li></ul> <p align="center"><a href="javascript:;" onMouseOver="MM_displayStatusMsg('George on Toby Club cruise');return document.MM_returnValue"><img SRC="tobyboattrip.jpg" BORDER=0 TITLE="George on Toby Club cruise down the Thames, c. 1957"></a> <p> <ul><li><b>1959</b> Publishes his first cartoon in the Peterborough column of the <b><i><a href="telegraph.html">Daily Telegraph</a></i></b>.</li> <li><b>1960</b> Illustrates Ted Hughes&#146;s first book for children, <i>Meet My Folks!</i> published spring 1961. <li><b>1963</b> First of more than 200 of his drawings is published in the <b><i><a href="nursing.html">Nursing Times</a></i></b>.</li> <li><b>1965</b> Publishes <i>A Finding Alphabet</i> (Faber & Faber), his first book where he does both text and illustrations. <li><b>1966</b> Succeeds Heath Robinson as illustrator of Norman Hunter&#146;s Professor Branestawm books.</li> </ul> <p align="center"><a href="javascript:;" onMouseOver="MM_displayStatusMsg('George with his wife Peg at the Palais Royal');return document.MM_returnValue"><img SRC="gwaparis1971.jpg" BORDER=0 TITLE="George with his wife Peg at the Palais Royal, Paris, 1971 Photograph © Peter Adamson"></a> <p> <ul> <li><b>1973</b> Publishes his first cartoon in <b><i><a href="privateeye.html">Private Eye</a></i></b>. <li><b>1980</b> The first of the Dear Bill books (Richard Ingrams and John Wells) is published, with Adamson&#146;s drawings. <li><A NAME="text6"</A><b>1981</b> Wins the <b><a href="javascript:openpopup5()">P.G. Wodehouse Centenary Illustration Award</a></b> in <i>Punch</i> and the contract to illustrate an anthology of P.G. Wodehouse short stories for the Folio Society (published in 1983).<SMALL><A HREF="#6"><B><SUP>6</B></SUP></A></SMALL> <li><b>1987</b> Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.</li> <li><b>1994</b> Becomes Honorary Retired Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. <li><b>1997</b> His wife, Peg, dies suddenly on May 14th. <li><b>2001</b> Becomes Life Member of the British Cartoonists&#146; Association. <li><b>2003</b> New edition of <i><b><a href="javascript:openpopup7()">The Peculiar Triumph of Professor Branestawm</a></b></i> is published by Red Fox Classics in July with Adamson&#146;s original illustrations. <li><b>2005</b> <b><a href="javascript:openpopup8()"><!-- ADDSEARCHTEXT death --><!-- ADDSEARCHTEXT date of death -->Dies peacefully on March 5th.</a></b></li></ul> <A NAME="1"><A NAME="2"><A NAME="3"><A NAME="4"><A NAME="5"><A NAME="6"><b>Notes</b><br> <font size="3"> <b>1</A></b> Certificate of Arrival issued by the U.S. Department of Labor on Ellis Island certifies their arrival on March 27th, 1910 on SS <i>Laurentic</i>. <A HREF="#text1">Back to main text</A> </font></b><br> <font size="3"> <b>2</A></b> Board of Trade passenger list, inwards, Liverpool, July 1921 pt 2, RMS <i>Caronia</i>, pp. 12 and 14, BT26/693, The National Archives, Kew. <A HREF="#text2">Back to main text</A> </font></b><br> <font size="3"> <b>3</A></b> Francis T. Pagett, O.B.E., who worked in partnership with his father Mr Alfred T. Pagett as a designer and decorator, was a county magistrate and member of Standish Council. During the Second World War he served as a major in the Royal Army Service Corps. <A HREF="#text3">Back to main text</A> </font></b><br> <font size="3"> <b>4</A></b> Geoffrey Heath Wedgwood was born at Leek, Staffordshire, in 1900. After serving in the army he studied at the Liverpool City School of Art from 1919 to 1921. He won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, studying engraving under Sir Frank Short. In 1925 he became an Associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers and won the Rome Prize. His plate, <i>St. Peter&#146;s Genoa</i>, is characteristic of the architectural subjects he undertook as a Rome scholar. David Strang printed Wedgwood&#146;s plates from 1922 onwards and also printed a number of Adamson&#146;s plates. Wedgwood taught at the Liverpool Institute from 1932 to 1935 and at the Liverpool City School of Art (later Liverpool College of Art) from 1935 until his retirement in 1960 . He died in June 1977. See the exhibition catalogue <i>Geoffrey Heath Wedgwood</i>, Walker Art Gallery, February 2nd - March 4th, 1972. <A HREF="#text4">Back to main text</A> </font></b><br> <font size="3"> <b>5</A></b> Lewis Woudhuysen, FSIAD (1912--1985) had come from the Netherlands to England as an &eacute;migr&eacute designer in 1940. Between 1934 and 1939 he had worked for the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson in Amsterdam. He designed the first £50 note in Scotland for the Clydesdale Bank. When the Byrne & Woudhuysen partnership formed in 1954 came to an end in 1956, Woudhuysen & Company Ltd moved to premises in Conduit Street. Lewis served as president of the SIAD for a while in the 1970s. He was vice president (1974--1977) and treasurer (1977--1981) of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda). John Morgan, who had trained at Exeter College of Art before and after seven years&#146; war service in the RAF, worked with Lewis from the design group&#146;s creation until 1971, when he returned to Exeter to teach design and set up his own studio. <A HREF="#text5">Back to main text</A> </font></b><br> <font size="3"> <b>6</A></b> <i>Punch</i>, vol. 281, no. 7356, November 4th, 1981, p. 807. <A HREF="#text6">Back to main text</A> </font></b> </td> </tr> <tr><td bgcolor="#808080" width="490"><font size="3" face="New Century, serif" color="#FFFFFF"><b>Select Bibliography</b><p> Obituaries (national)<br> <i>The Independent</i>,&nbsp; Wednesday, March 16th, 2005, p. 33<br> <i>The Times</i>,&nbsp; Friday, March 18th, 2005, p. 80<br> <i>The Scotsman</i>,&nbsp; Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005, p. 51<br> <i>The Herald</i>,&nbsp; Thursday, March 24th, 2005, p. 16<br> <i>The Guardian</i>,&nbsp; Saturday, April 2nd, 2005, p. 21<p> Obituaries (other)<br> &#145;Artist dies after prolific career&#146;, <i>Express & Echo</i>,&nbsp; Friday, March 11th, 2005, p. 16<br> &#145;Artist&#146;s hidden work on city revealed at last&#146;, <i>Liverpool Daily Post</i>,&nbsp; Monday, March 14th, 2005, p. 11<br> &#145;Farewell to a man of many talents&#146;, <i>Wigan Observer</i>,&nbsp; Tuesday, March 15th, 2005, p.&nbsp;27<br> &#145;Illustrator who graced the page&#146;, <i>Western Morning News</i>,&nbsp; Friday, March 18th, 2005, <nobr>p. 8</nobr><br> <i>Liverpool Daily Post</i>,&nbsp; Monday, March 21st 2005, p. 13<br> <i>The Herald</i>,&nbsp; Glasgow, Thursday, March 24th 2005, p. 16<br> &#145;Lives Remembered: Quentin Blake writes ... &#146;, <i>The Times</i>,&nbsp; Tuesday, March 22nd 2005, p. 61<br> &#145;Lives Remembered: Joe Lang writes ... &#146;, <i>The Times</i>,&nbsp; Monday, March 28th 2005<br> &#145;Twinkling, quirky eye to the end&#146;, <i>Countryman</i>,&nbsp; vol. 111, no. 5, May, 2005, <nobr>pp. 30--32</nobr><br> <i>Bankside Gallery Newsletter</i>,&nbsp; May 2005, no. 3, p. 3<br> &#145;Brush strokes&#146;, <i>Western Daily Press: West Country Life</i>,&nbsp; May 14th, 2005, pp. 4-5<br> <i>Book and Magazine Collector</i>,&nbsp; June 2005, no. 256, p. 11 <p> General bibliography<p> <p> Adamson, George (contributor), &#145;Eleven Printmakers: Approaches, Opinions, Experiences&#146;, <i>The Journal of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers & Engravers</i>, no. 6, 1984, pp. 18-19<br> Beckman, David, <i>The Dictionary of Artists in Britain Since 1945</i>, Art Dictionaries, 1998, rev. edn., 2006<br> Berger, Laura Standley, <i>Twentieth-Century Children&#146;s Writers</i>, St. James Press, Detroit, 1995, p. 481<br> Bryant, Mark, <i>Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists</i>, Ashgate, 2000<br> Bryant, Mark, and Simon Heneage, <i>Dictionary of British Cartoonists and Caricaturists 1730-1980</i>, Scolar Press, 1994<br> Doran, Amanda-Jane (ed.), with introduction by Miles Kington, <i>The Punch Cartoon Album: 150 Years Classic Cartoons</i>, Grafton Books, London, 1990<br> Ellis, Alec, <i>How to Find Out about Children&#146;s Literature</i>, 3rd edn, Pergamon, 1973, <nobr>p. 144</nobr><br> Fisher, Margery, <i>Who&#146;s Who in Children&#146;s Books</i>, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975, <nobr>p. 143</nobr><br> <i>Folio 40: A Checklist of the Publications of the Folio Society, 1947-1987</i>, London, The Folio Society, 1987<br>Greville, Charles, &#145;El Ted, the matador premier&#146;, <i>The Daily Mail</i>, August 24th, 1970<br> Holman, Jack, &#145;Still lead in George&#146;s pencil at 80&#146;, <i>The Western Morning News</i>, February 13th, 1993<br> Horne, Alan J. <i>The Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Book Illustrators</i>, Antique Collectors&#146; Club, 1994<br> Johnson, J., and A. Greutzner, <i>The Dictionary of British Artists, 1880-1940</i>, Antique Collectors&#146; Club, 1976<br> Mahoney, Bertha E., <i>et al.</i>, <i>Illustration of Children&#146;s Books, 1744-1945</i>, Horn Book Inc., Boston, 1958, 1968 and 1978 supplements (vols. 2, 3 & 4)<br> Peppin, Brigid, and Lucy Micklethwait, <i>Dictionary of British Book Illustration in the 20th Century</i>, John Murray, 1983<br> <i>Private Eye at 45</i>, The Cartoon Museum, October 2006, pp. 8 and 18<br> <i>RE Printmakers&#146; Directory</i>, A & C Black Publishers Ltd, February 2006, p. 3<br> <i>Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-1970</i>, vol. 1 A-D, Hilmarton Manor Press, 1985<br> Sarkissian, Adele (ed.), <i>Children&#146;s Authors and Illustrators: An Index to Biographical Dictionaries</i>, Gale Research Company, Detroit, 1978<br> Schofield, Ernest, and Roy Conyers Nesbit, <i>Arctic Airmen: The RAF in Spitsbergen and North Russia in 1942</i>, William Kimber & Co Limited, 1987<br> Seymour, Mike & Bill Balderson: <i>To the Ends of the Earth: 210 Squadron&#146;s Catalina Years</i>, Paterchurch Publications, 1999<br> Shaw, John Mackay, <i>Children in Poetry</i>, Gale Research Company, Detroit, supplements 1 & 2 (1972 & 1976)<br> Tabor, Stephen, and Keith Sagar, <i>Ted Hughes: A Bibliography, 1946-1980</i>, Mansell, 1983<br> Walasek, Helen (ed.), <i>The Best of Punch Cartoons</i>, Prion, 2008<br> Walasek, Helen (ed.), foreword by Griff Rhys Jones, <i>Punch Goes to War</i>, Prion, 2010<br> Ward, Martha E., and Dorothy A. Marquardt, <i>Illustrators of Books for Young People</i>, 2nd edn, Scarecrow Press Inc., 1975<br> Watson, V., <i>Cambridge Guide to Children&#146;s Books in English</i>, Cambridge University Press, 2001<br> <i>Who&#146;s Who in Art</i>, Hilmarton Manor Press, 2004, p. 5<br><tr><td> <p align="center"><font size="2" face="New Century, serif">This web site &copy; 2003 John Adamson Publishing Consultants.<br> This site was produced by John Adamson Publishing Consultants.<BR>Please e-mail your comments to the <A HREF="mailto:jpap@netcomuk.co.uk">webmaster</A>.</font></p> </td> </tr> </table></table> </body> </html>