Edgar Alfred Holloway (1870 – 1941) was an illustrator of children's books.

Biography

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Holloway was born in

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. He became a war artist during the

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. He excelled in military uniform portraits and he worked extensively for

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producing military uniform pictures for their

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series. His illustrations have subsequently been reprinted in books on

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. Holloway contributed illustrations to the Boy's Own Paper and Young England magazine and illustrated numerous children's books - mostly adventure books for boys. In 1911 he was living at 35 Milton Road, Hanwell, Middlesex, with his wife Mildred Kate Holloway, son Francis Gilbert Holloway (18) and daughter Leila Mildred Holloway (14). His occupation was stated as painter artist. Holloway emigrated to Australia in 1920 and illustrated a number of books for the Cornstalk Publishing Company in

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. He died in the Sydney suburb of Burwood, in 1941. Between 1930 - 1941 Edgar married Eva Margaret and went on to do paintings for the Consolation magazine.

Picture Books by Holloway

*''ABC of Jolly Jack'', London, Gale & Polden, ca. 1920. *''Soldiers of Many Lands'', London, Gale & Polden, 1917. *''A wounded soldier is found by a rescue dog who alerts the nurse and ambulancemen of their whereabouts''. Coloured chromolithograph, 1904

Other Works illustrated by Holloway

*Owen Vaughan (Owen Rhoscom), ''Lone Tree Lode'', London: Duckworth & Co.,1913. *

W.E. Cule William Edward Cule (5 December 1870 – 13 July 1944) was a British author of children's books and several books for adults on Christian themes. In all, he wrote some thirty books encompassing a number of popular genres – public school storie ...

, ''Rodborough School'', Pilgrim Press, 1915. *D.E. Alarcon, D. Pedro, ''The Three-Cornered Hat''. Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1925. *Mary Grant Bruce, ''Hugh Stanford's Luck''. Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1925. *E. V. Tims (David Roseler). ''Lawrence, Prince of Mecca''. Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1927. *E. V. Tims (David Roseler). ''The Valley of Adventure''. Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1929.

References

External links

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The Canadian Anglo-Boer War Museum
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Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library
collection of 43 water-colors by Holloway painted for

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