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Illustration by Charles Edmund Brock

4 Perowne Street

History of 4 Perowne Street

1878

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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