John Timothy Jellicoe (5 January 1842 – buried 13 June 1914) was a British illustrator who produced large number of illustrations for newspapers and magazines as well as illustrating books and stories by a wide range of authors.
Jellicoe was born in London on 5 January 1842 to George Daniel Jellicoe (31 May 1799 – 8 December 1877), a solicitor's clerk and Ann Thomas (c. 1810 – October 1875).[1] The census returns show Jellicoe as the second child of his parents. Ann Thomas was his father's second wife, and Jellicoe had a half-sister Harriet Sophia Jellicoe (1828 – aft. March 1911)[note 1] and three half-brothers alive when he was born.[note 2] Jellicoe was baptised on 20 February 1842 in St Mary, Islington, London.[1]
Jellicoe married Georgina Annie Wiltshire (12 December 1841 – 18 October 1872), at Millbrook, Hampshire on 23 May 1868.[2][3] The couple had one son, George Edward Jellicoe (c. 1872 – aft. 1924) who became a publisher.[note 3][4]
At the time of the 1871 Census, Jellicoe was living at 1 Brook Road, Stoke Newington, London, where his son, George Edward, was born. Georgina died on 18 October 1872.[5] Jellicoe remarried three years later to Charlotte Anne Holland (1845 – October–November 1913). They had two children Mabel (1877–1945) and Gordon (1885–1941).
The 1881 census found Jellicoe living at 2 Grosvenor Park Villas with his wife and two children. His occupation had changed from artist in woodtoartist (figures). By 1891 Jellicoe was living at 74 Parkhill Road, Hampstead, where he would remain until 1907 at least. By the 1911 census he was staying at Gondar House, Gondar Gardens in Hampstead. By 1913 he was living at 5 Park Avenue, north of Hampstead.
John studied art in London and began exhibiting in 1865. He exhibited pen and ink drawings, paintings, and watercolours at the Society of British Artists and the Royal Academy.[note 4][6] Jellicoe was regarded as an exceptionally fine figure artist and often collaborated with other illustrators by drawing figures into their illustrations of buildings and places.[7]
Illustrations of the Ripon Millenary Festival[edit]
Jellicoe attended the Ripon Millenary Festival, held in Ripon, North Yorkshire, in 1886. This was one of the pageants of the late Victorian vogue for Merrie England.[11]
Charles Eyre Pascoe (1842–1912), who wrote on the stage, travelogues, guides to schools, souvenirs and other works.[28][19]
Eliza Caroline Phillips (1847–1923), who wrote illustrated books for small children.[29][19]
Charles Pond (1856–1931), comedian who wrote the sketch The Fully Licensed Man, which was recited over 11,000 times.[30][19]
Robert Richardson (1850–1901), an Australian poet, writer, and journalist who wrote novels for children, stories for boy's papers, and books about travel.[18]
Richmond Seeley (1833–1913), a London publisher who worked with his cousin Alfred John Church to produce illustrated versions of stories from the classics.[31][17]
Grace Stebbing (1840–1936), a prolific author of moral tales for boys and girls as well as historical romances and biographies. She wrote her first book aged 7 and her last one at 91, with 89 books in total as well as numerous short stories.[34][35][36]
Lily Watson (1849–1932), an EnglishBaptist who wrote novels and instructional works.[38][14]
Mrs. Henry Wood (1814–1887), an English novelist who turned to writing to support her family when her husband's business failed, and whose work was widely read in the United States and Australia.[17]
While most of Jellicoe's illustrations were line drawings, he did a number of illustrations in colour. The Story of Joan of Arc (1906) was a children's book written by Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912). The book was published in by T. C. and E. C. Jack in London and Edinburgh. Jellicoe produced eight colour illustrations for the book, one of which (the wounding in battle) was used as a book cover.
Charlotte died in Willesden in October or November 1913,[39] and Jellicoe followed in June 1914.[40] He was buried on 13 June 1914[41] in the same plot in Hampstead Cemetery where Charlotte had been buried on 4 November.[42]
^Sir Geoffrey Allan Jellicoe (8 October 1900 – 17 July 1996), the famous Landscape architect was George Edward's son
^It is not clear if the Royal Academy, which had originally refused to exhibit Watercolours had changed its policy by this time.
^The publisher James Virtue set up St Paul's Magazine to rival Cornhill and copied the format, frequency and price. Virtue originally hope the call it Anthony Trollope's Magazine.
^MacAlister, J. Y. W., ed. (1902). "English Book Illustration of To-Day: By R. E. D. Sketchley". The Library: A Quarterly Review of Bibliography and Library Lore. New Series (3). London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner And Co., Ltd.: 192. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
^Sutherland, John (1989). "St Paul's Magazine". The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p. 550.
^Holland, Steve. "Artists: Jellicoe, John". British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index. Archived from the original on 6 February 2020. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
^A. & C. Black Ltd. (1967). "Brockington, Rev. Alfred Allen". Who Was Who: Volume III 1929-1940: A Companion to Who's Who Containing the Biographies of Those Who Died Diring the Period 1929-1940. Vol. III (4th ed.). London: Adam and Charles Black. p. 165. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
^Holland, Steve. "Contents Lists". British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index. Archived from the original on 6 February 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
^Kirk, John Foster (1908). "Low, Charles Rathbone". A Supplement To Allibone S Critical Dictionary Of English Literature British And American Authors. Vol. II. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. pp. 1020–1021.
^Holland, Steve. "Contents Lists". British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index. Archived from the original on 6 February 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
^"Death of Noted Old Cheltonian: Col. Mockler-Ferryman, Regimental Historian". Cheltenham Chronicle (Saturday 31 May 1930): 3. 31 May 1930.
^Holland, Steve. "Contents Lists". British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index. Archived from the original on 17 March 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
^"Death of Mr. Charles Eyre Pascoe". Westminster Gazette (Tuesday 12 November 1912): 14. 12 November 1912.
^"Death of a Children's Authoress". Gloucester Citizen (Saturday 17 November 1923): 6. 17 November 1923.
^"Death of Mr. R. Seeley". West Surrey Times (Friday 17 January 1913): 7. 17 January 1913.
^A. & C. Black Ltd. (1967). "Sherer, John Walter". Who Was Who: Volume I: 1897-1915: A Companion to Who's Who Containing the Biographies of Those Who Died During the Period 1897-1915. London: Adam and Charles Black. p. 645. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
^"Mr. J. W. Sherer". The Times (Monday 01 January 1912): 11. 1 January 1912.
^"Fashionable and Personal". Sevenoaks Chronicle and Kentish Advertiser (Friday 28 February 1936): 10. 28 February 1936.
^"Wills and Estates". The Scotsman (Thursday 21 May 1936): 13. 21 May 1936.
^Holland, Steve. "Contents Lists". British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index. Archived from the original on 6 February 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
^Holland, Steve. "Contents Lists". British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index. Archived from the original on 6 February 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2020.