Frederick Henry Townsend, 1868-1920

• Biography

  Attribute	Value
  Biography	Frederick Henry Townsend was born in London in 1868 and studied at Lambeth School of Art along with Leonard Raven-Hill. Townsend was a cartoonist and line engraver who worked from the late 19th Century contributing to newspapers and magazines including The Daily Chronicle, Punch Magazine, The Graphic, The Tatler and The Illustrated London News. Books illustrated by Townsend included Maid Marian (1895), Jane Eyre (1896), Shirley (1897), A Tale of Two Cities (1897), The Scarlet Letter (1897) and Rob Roy (1897). He was the first Art Editor of Punch in 1905. His illustration for Punch in 1901 was used in a London Transport poster in 1944.
  Education	Lambeth School of Art,
  Employment	Designed poster for London Transport, 1944
  Role	Artist,