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 The former grave of George Cruikshank at Kensal Green Cemetery, London. His remains were moved to St. Paulīs Chathedral. Picture by Androom (02 Aug 2019) |
Cruikshank, George |
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BORN 27 Sep 1792, London - DIED 1 Feb 1878, London GRAVE LOCATION London: St. Paul's Cathedral |
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George Cruikshank was the son of the caricaturist Isaac Cruikshank (1764-1811). His brother Isaac Robert Cruikshank was a caricaturist as well. George also started his career with caricatures and political prints. In 1821 he illustrated Pierce Egan's "Life in London". He married Ann Walker on 16 October 1827. From 1831 he concentrated on book illustrations. In 1836 he illustrated "Sketches by Boz" for Charles Dickens. They became friends and illustrations for "The Mudfog Papers" (1837) and "Oliver Twist" (1838) followed. In 1845 he illustrated Willam Maxwell's "History of the Irish rebellion". Cruikshank had been a heavy drinker, but in the late 1840s he advocated alcohol temperance and he turned against smoking as well. Dickens did not like it and their friendship suffered. Mary Ann died in 1849 and he married Eliza Widdison on 7 March 1851. They lived at Hampstead Road. Like with his first wife, he had no children with her. But from 1853 he had mistress, their servant Adelaide Attree (1831-1914), with whom he had eleven illegitimate children. After he made her pregnant she had to leave the service of him and his wife. She did not reveal him as the father and he set her up in a house three streets away. She lived there as the wife of the gentleman 'George Archibold'. In 1859 there were fears of an invasion of England and he organised a Rifle Volunteer Corps in Surrey that existed until 1862. He started another in Middlesex where he was involved until 1868. Dickens died in 1870 and in 1871 he published a letter in The Times in which he claimed to have created most of the plot for "Oliver Twist". Cruikshank died in February 1878 in London and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetey. In November 1878, his remains were transferred to St Paul's Cathedral. His old tomb is still at Kensal Green Cemetery. His widow Eliza learned on his deathbed or from his testament about his other household. Afterwards she visited Adelaide and helped her with her children. Related persons • was sculpted by Behnes, William • was a friend of Dickens, Charles • was written about by Jerrold, Blanchard Events |
| 30/12/1863 | William Makepeace Thackeray is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery in London. The funeral was attended by Charles Dickens, Mark Lemon, Anthony Trollope, Theodore Martin, Robert Bell, John Millais, G.H. Lewes, Robert Browning, George Cruikshank, John Leech and Shirley Brooks. [Dickens, Charles][Leech, John][Lewes, George Henry][Martin, Theodore][Millais, John][Thackeray, William Makepeace][Trollope, Anthony] |
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The former grave of George Cruikshank at Kensal Green Cemetery, London. His remains were moved to St. Paulīs Chathedral. Picture by Androom (02 Aug 2019) |