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, (17 January 1858 – 15 November 1937) was an English art historian, editor and author, the son of the writer and publisher
Joseph Cundall
Joseph Cundall (22 September 1818 – 10 January 1895) was a Victorian English writer under the pseudonym of "Stephen Percy", a pioneer photographer and London publisher of children's books. He provided employment for many of the best artists o ...
. He was closely involved in the administration of and produced the reports for a series of international exhibitions held in London in the 1880s, and catalogued the art library at the South Kensington Museum, later the Victoria and Albert Museum.
In 1891, he became the secretary and librarian to the
Institute of Jamaica
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National Library of Jamaica
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. Retrieved 26 April 2019. the son of the writer, photographer, and publisher
Joseph Cundall
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(1818–1895) and his wife Sarah.Ruari McLean, "Cundall, Joseph", ''
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After attending private schools, he gained admission to
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, the first director of the South Kensington Museum, later the Victoria and Albert Museum, and in 1880–82, Frank Cundall was engaged in cataloguing the works of the National Art Library there.
In 1883 he was assistant secretary to the
International Fisheries Exhibition
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, and was assistant editor for their catalogues and handbooks. His father had been closely involved in the 1862
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. In 1886 he was the editor with Sir Philip Cunliffe-Owen of the report of the Royal Commission of the
Colonial and Indian Exhibition
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. In 1889 he prepared the catalogue, report, and award lists for the British section of the Paris Exposition Universelle, and in 1890 the catalogue and guide for the Royal Military Exhibition.
Jamaica
In 1890 Cundall was appointed secretary and librarian to the
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National Library of Jamaica
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when it was created in 1979. Using his knowledge of art and his exhibition experience, he created an art gallery at the Institute for which he published a catalogue of the portraits in 1914.
He was a prolific writer on the history of Jamaica, producing important bibliographies of Jamaica and the wider West Indies. He was joint editor of the '' Handbook of Jamaica'' from 1907 and became sole editor from 1920. His masterwork was to be his history of the governors of the colony, however, only the first two volumes were published before his death.
Honours and later life
Cundall was appointed a member of the
Order of the British Empire
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(OBE) in 1929 and was a fellow of the
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(FSA) and of the
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'', No. 31 (1928), pp. 243–247.
* ''A Brief account of King's House, Spanish Town, Jamaica''. Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, 1929.
1930s
* ''A Brief History of the Parish Church of St. Andrew Jamaica''. Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, 1931.
* "A Supplementary Bibliography of Richard Hill", ''The American Book Collector'', Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 1933), pp. 46–48.
* A History of Printing in Jamaica from 1717 to 1834. ' Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, 1935.
* ''The Governors of Jamaica in the Seventeenth Century''. West India Committee, London, 1936.
* ''The Governors of Jamaica in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century''. West India Committee, London, 1937.