George Worsley Adamson
George Worsley Adamson, RE, MCSD (7 February 1913 – 5 March 2005) was a book illustrator, writer, and cartoonist, who held American and British dual citizenship from 1931.[1]
For the wildlife conservationist, see George Adamson.
George Worsley Adamson
7 February 1913
5 March 2005 (aged 92)
Illustrator and cartoonist
Mary Marguerita Renée Diamond
Early life[edit]
Adamson was born in the Bronx, New York City. His parents[2][3] were George William Adamson, a master car builder for the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, and Mary Lydia (Lily, née Howard). His father, born in Glasgow, Scotland, and his mother, born in Wigan, Lancashire, had moved to New York City from Bombay in 1910.
Following the death of his mother in February 1921, George Adamson sailed to England with his father, his Aunt Florence, and his two sisters, Marie and Dorothy, on the Cunard liner RMS Caronia, landing at Liverpool on July 10.[4] His father sailed back to New York in October 1921, where he died the following year.
George Adamson was educated at the Wigan Mining and Technical College[5] and the Liverpool City School of Art,[6] where he studied etching and engraving under Geoffrey Wedgwood RE.[7]
He exhibited at the Royal Academy (in 1937, 1939, 1940 and 1948) and contributed to Punch from 1939 to 1988.[7][8]
George Adamson's work is held in several public collections, including the following:
Awards and honours[edit]
Adamson was the winner of the P.G. Wodehouse Centenary Illustration Award in Punch in 1981 and was subsequently commissioned to illustrate an anthology of P.G. Wodehouse short stories for the Folio Society published in 1983.[14]
George Adamson was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 1987.