Harry Rountree
Harry Rountree | |
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| Born | 26 January 1878 |
| Died | 26 September 1950 (aged 72) St Ives, Cornwall, England |
| Occupation | Illustrator |
| Relatives | Edward Bartley (great-uncle) |
Harry Rountree (26 January 1878[1] – 26 September 1950)[2][3] was a prolific illustrator working in England around the turn of the 20th century. Born in Auckland, New Zealand,[4] he moved to London in 1901, when he was 23 years old.[3]
Early life
Harry Rountree was born in 1878 to Irish banker, Stephen Gilbert Rountree (5 November 1851 - 9 September 1918)[5] and Julia Bartley (24 December 1851 - 29 October 1930), the niece of prominent New Zealand architect Edward Bartley[6].
Rountree was educated at Auckland’s Queen’s College.
Rountree is noted for his illustrations of British golf courses and golfing caricatures.[7]
During the First World War, he served as a captain in the Royal Engineers.[3]
Rountree produced well-liked cartoons for the magazine Punch from 1905 to 1939, and also created advertising, posters and book illustrations for writers such as P. G. Wodehouse and Arthur Conan Doyle. [8]
Death
Largely forgotten, and living in poverty, Rountree died in St Ives, Cornwall in 1950.
Notes
- ^ 1939 England and Wales Register
- ^ "Deaths". The Times. London, England. 27 September 1950. p. 1.
ROUNTREE; On Sept. 26, 1950, at the West Cornwall Hospital, Harry Rountree, Artist, of St. Ives and Saltings, Lelant, Cornwall, beloved husband of Stella and father of Gilbert and Lynda.
- ^ a b c "Mr. Harry Rountree". The Times. London, England. 27 September 1950. p. 6.
- ^ 1911 England Census
- ^ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rountree-186
- ^ http://localhistorybartley.blogspot.com/2015/05/julia-bartley-and-steven-rountree.html
- ^ Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin, Harry Rountree (illus). The Golf Courses of the British Isles, published by London: Duckworth, 1910, via Internet Archive
- ^ http://punch.photoshelter.com/gallery/Harry-Rountree-Cartoons/G0000w42TuJoZgTg/
External links
Works by or about Harry Rountree at Wikisource- Works by Harry Rountree at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Harry Rountree at Internet Archive
- Harry Rountree at Library of Congress, with 7 library catalogue records (3 "from old catalog")
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