Frederick Pegram (19 December 1870 Somers Town, London - 23 August 1937), was a prolific English illustrator and cartoonist who produced work for The Pall Mall Gazette, Punch Magazine, The Idler, Illustrated London News, The Tatler, and The Daily Chronicle. He studied under Fred Brown and spent some time in Paris. He also painted, drew pencil portraits, did watercolours, used chalk and pastel, and produced etchings. He became one of the most consistent of magazine illustrators, maintaining a high standard and preferring a Georgian setting for his works. He succumbed to lung cancer on 23 August 1937.
"One of the most enjoyable experiences I have had was under the hospitable roof of Mr. Hall Caine, when I went to make the sketches for 'The Manxman' illustrations, which appeared in 'The Queen', in which paper the novel was first published. The popular novelist is a host par excellence, and I had a very good time."
— Fred Pegram
The sculptor and medallist Alfred Bertram Pegram[3] (17 January 1873 – 14 January 1941)[4][5] was one of Frederick's younger brothers. Frederick and Alfred were cousins to the four Brock brothers, all illustrators, who worked together in their studio in Cambridge.[6] Frederick, Alfred, and the Brock brothers were all first cousins to the sculptor Henry Alfred PegramRA (27 July 1862 – 25 March 1937).
Poor Jack (1897), At the Rising of the Moon (1898), London's World Fair (1898), The Orange Girl (1899) and Martin Chuzzlewit (1900), A Lost Leader. Marriage à la Mode, The Missioner, Tea-Table Talk; Sybil, Or The Two Nations (1895).
^"Alfred Bertram Pegram". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. Archived from the original on 27 June 2020. Retrieved 13 July 2020 – via University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII.
^National Archives (29 September 1939). 1939 Register: Reference: RG 101/238A E.D. AKBI. Kew: National Archives.
^Kirkpatrick, Robert J. (11 July 1905). "The Brocks: C. E. Brock, H. M. Brock, R. H. Brock". The Men Who Drew For Boys (And Girls): 101 Forgotten Illustrators of Children's Books: 1844-1970. London: Robert J. Kirkpatrick. p. 43.
