Record ID:
35653161 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 88132349
Heading:
Birth:
  • 18640427
  • Wortley (South Yorkshire, England)
  • 1885 - 1889
Death:
  • 19030805
  • London (England)
  • 1885 - 1889
Associated with:
  • Great Britain
  • Australia 1885 - 1889
Lived/located in:
  • Sydney (N.S.W.) 1885 - 1889
Occupations:
  • Artists Painters Cartoonists
Used for:
  • Summers, Charlie, 1864-1903
Notes:
  • Born at New Wortley, Yorkshire, England 1864; worked for an estate agent, solicitor's office, in a music store; invited to do drawings for Yorkshire Gossip when only 14; provided posters for a theatrical company and designed costumes; went to London 1884 and worked as an illustrator; married Lilian Farrer; sailed to Sydney 1885; returned to England 1888; established himself as a leading black and white artist; fell ill 1903 and died in Melina Place, St. John's Wood, England.
  • His Drawings by Phil May, 1975 page 2 (b. New Wortley, Leeds, April 22, 1864; d. London, Aug. 5, 1903; illustrator, humorist, caricaturist)
  • Blinkhoolie. The parson and the painter, [1893?] t.p. (illustrated by Charlie Summers) p. [3-4] (illustration on these pages and many other ill. in the book are signed "Phil May")
  • Houfe, Simon. Phil May, c2002 t.p. (Phil May, 1864-1903) p. 52 (Charlie Summers, alias Mr. Phil May)
  • Barrie, Sandy. Australians behind the camera: directory of early Australian photographers, 1841-1945, 2002.
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography online, 6 February 2017 http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/may-philip-william-phil-4178
Local system number:
  • (VSL)3774027
  • 000000657048
  • abv04844967
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX169209
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng VSL rda VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc