F. H. Townsend

Frederick Henry Townsend ARE (25 February 1868 – 11 December 1920) [1][2] was a British illustrator, cartoonist and art editor of Punch.

Townsend illustrated the second edition of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre, A Child's History of England and Gryll Grange, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables [1] in 1902.

[4] Townsend also contributed cartoons to Punch,[5] becoming its art editor for fifteen years from 1905 until his death.

[6] In later life he became interested in etching and in 1915 he was elected as an associate of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (ARE),[3] having studied etching under Sir Frank Short about two years earlier.

[note 1] He died on 11 December 1920 and was buried in a family grave on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.