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Illustration by Charles Edmund Brock1878:
Edmund Brock, University Reader in Medieval and Oriental languages
Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938)
Illustrator, painter, draughtsman and caricaturist; born in Holloway, London, elder of four artist brothers, son of Edmund Brock, Reader in Medieval and Oriental Languages for Cambridge University Press; the family moved to Cambridge where he attended the Grammar School; studied briefly in the studio of sculptor, Henry Wiles; from 1891 he illustrated books, moving to Arundine House, Madingley Road, Cambridge where his brother joined him, they built a studio and working together became leading illustrators of 18th and 19th historical literature; illustrated Macmillan’s Standard Novels and Dent’s editions of Jane Austen’s novels, Dickens’ Christmas books and the works of Thackery and Lamb 1902-3; 1908 elected member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours; died in Cambridge in 1938.
When the family first moved to Cambridge they had lived in Coronation Street where Thomas was born in 1872.
For more details of family history
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1881:
Edmund Brock, 40, printer’s reader, b Shepreth
Mary Ann, 45, b London
Alice E, 13, b Middlesex
Charles E, 11, b Holloway
Richard H, 9, b Colney Hatch
Thomas A, 8, b Cambridge
Henry M, 5, b Cambridge
Katharine A, 4, b Cambridge
Bertha M, b Cambridge
The family had moved by 1888 to 10 Tenison Road but then moved on to 4 North Terrace and 3 Barrie Villas in Abbey Road by 1889.
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1884:
Montgomery, Andrew, taylor’s foreman
1887:
Ginn, Robert, tea dealer; Ginn, Mrs. Harriett, senr; Ginn, Miss Harriett
1891:
Canham, Thos. I., cellarman; Cain, John, clerk
1895:
Cain, John, clerk
1898-1904:
Canham, Mrs. Annie; Cain, John, clerk
1907:
Canham, Mrs. Annie, laundress
1910-11:
Cocksedge, Samuel
1912-25:
Abbs, C., harness maker
1925-40:
Wheaton, Noble Leo., machine minder
1948-1962:
Harold Fordham
1964-73:
Mrs Fordham
1974:
Michael Adamson
1975: –
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