Phillip Boydell (1896 - 1984) was a British designer and illustrator.
[1] He obtained a scholarship at the Manchester School of Art,[2] but his studies were interrupted by conscription in 1914.
During his service in the Royal Navy, his vessel the tugboat HMS Blackcock[3] was lost off Murmansk in winter,[4] but Boydell lived to tell the tale,[5] and was able to continue his education at the Royal College of Art.
[2] In 1923 he married sculptor Bertha White.
[6] In 1926 he was offered the position of Art Director at the London Press Exchange,[2] and was on the Board of Directors when he retired in 1961.