Savile Lumley

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Savile Lumley
Born1876
Marylebone, London
Died1960
NationalityEnglish
Known forIllustration

John Savile Lumley (1876–1960) was a prolific English book illustrator, and poster designer best known for his 1915 war recruitment poster Daddy, what did you do in the Great War?

Life[edit]

Lumley was born in Marylebone, London in 1876[1] and attended the Royal Academy of Arts from 25 July 1893 to July 1898.[2]

During World War One Lumley was approached by printer Arthur Gunn with an idea for a new army recruitment poster, the now well known Daddy, what did you do in the Great War? According to Gunn's son Lumley worked on a sketch of the idea before presenting the idea to the proposal to the British Parliamentary Recruiting Committee who subsequently commissioned it in 1915.[3]

Works[edit]

Book Illustration[edit]

  • Run Away Nursery Tales (n.d.)
  • Warne's Pleasure Book For Girls by W.J. Gordon (n.d.)
  • In the Clutch of the Green Hand by Frances Cowen (n.d.)
  • A School Libel by George Garner (n.d.)
  • The Big Book for Girls by Mrs Herbert Strang (n.d.)
  • Sunken Treasure by Percy Woodcock (n.d.)
  • Gainst the Might of Spain: A Story of the Days of the Great Armada by Percy F. Westerman (n.d.)
  • The Farm by Martin Merrythought (n.d.)
  • The Joyous Adventures of Little Kumalo: A South African Story by Emiline Hale (n.d.)
  • The Brownie Village by H.B. Davidson (n.d.)
  • A Gipsy Brownie by H.B. Davidson (n.d.)
  • Jerry and Joan by H.B. Davidson (n.d.)
  • The Enormous Turnip retold by Vera Southgate (n.d.)
  • A Handful Of Rebels by Raymond Jacberns (n.d.)
  • The Merry Men of Sherwood by Willson Wingrove (n.d.)
  • Five Years On A Training Ship by J.D. Bush and E.T. Miller (n.d.)
  • Poppy and Peter in the White Ship by J. Finch (n.d.)
  • Sea Slang: A Dictionary of the Old-Timers' Expressions and Epithets by Frank C. Bowen (n.d.)
  • The Castle of Great Ideas by Jean Morton and K. Laverty (n.d.)
  • The Country Cousin by C.A. Mercer (1905)
  • The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper (1910)
  • A Disputed Heritage (1911)
  • The Nursery ABC Book (1914)
  • The Young Crofters by Mrs. Albert G. Latham (1920)
  • All About Pets by Lillian Gask (1921)
  • Angela Goes to School by May Wynne (1922)
  • The Story of a Chinese Scout (1922)
  • By Canoe to Cannibal-Land by J.H. Holmes (1923)
  • Lorna Doone by Richard Blackmore (1923)
  • Winifred Avon: A School Story for Girls by Mabel Marlowe (1923)
  • The Captain and the King: A Public School Story by R.A.H. Goodyear (1923)
  • The Channel Pirate by Lawrence Bourne (1924)
  • Battle Royal School by R.A.H. Goodyear (1924)
  • The Sisters of the Silver Sands by Evelyn Everett-Green (1924)
  • The Bairn's Toy Book (1924)
  • Brer Rabbit Stories (1925)
  • A Prairie Schoolgirl by Alys Chatwin (1925)
  • Peggy's School Pack by H.B. Davidson (1925)
  • Chappie and Others by Constance Heward (1926)
  • The Old Oak Chest by Dorothy MacNulty (1926)
  • The Creaking Bough by Winifred Pares (1927)
  • Mystery Island by Percy F. Westerman (1927)
  • Coppernob Buckland by Lawrence Bourne (1927)
  • Scouts In Buckskin by Wingrove Willson (1927)
  • Little Pets' Story Book (1928)
  • The Secret Station by Ellersley Hall (1929)
  • Captain Coppernob: The Story of a Sailing Voyage by Lawrence Bourne (1929)
  • The Magic Submarine by Ernest H. Robinson (1930)
  • In Smugglers' Grip by Frank Calthorp et al (1930)
  • Behind the Mountains by Wray Hunt (1930)
  • In Pirate Waters by George Garner (1930)
  • Two Years Before the Mast R.H. Dana (1930)
  • Three Real Bricks by J.E. Grattan-Smith (1932)
  • From a Cottage in Pennycook Lane by Isabel Cameron (1933)
  • The Little Captives by D. Alcock (1933)
  • The City of the Sorcerer by Major Charles Gilson (1934)
  • Jerry Goes to Sea by Captain K. MacLure (1935)
  • Wonder Tales of Past History by Robert Finch (1935)
  • Wonder Tales of Great Explorers by Robert Finch (1935)
  • Francis Drake - The Sea-King of Devon by George M. Towle (1935)
  • The Jubilee Book for Children: To Commemorate 25 Years Glorious Reign (1935)
  • Miss Greyshott's Girls by Evelyn Everett-Green (1935)
  • Tibby of the Orange Funnel Line: The Adventures of a Ship's Kitten by Kaye Fox (1935)
  • Holiday at Greystones by P.D. Logan (1936)
  • Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift (1936)
  • The Well of Nonsense by Jean Moreton (1938)
  • A Term to Remember by May Wynne (1939)
  • Charley Laurel and Another Story by William H.G. Kingston and Isabel S. Robson (1940)
  • Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1940)
  • Winged Venturers by Guy Dempster (1942)
  • Mister Bannock: A Nonsense Story by Edgar Primrose Dickie (1947)
  • The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper (1949)
  • The Black Arrow by R.L. Stevenson (1949)
  • The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1950)
  • The Young Fur-Traders by R.M. Ballantyne (1950)
  • Nancy Afloat by Bessie Marchant (1952)
  • Westward in the Mermaid by Percy Woodcock (1956)
  • Adventure Down Channel by Percy Woodcock (1957)
  • Sunken Treasure by Percy Woodcock (1957)
  • Sea Wrack by Percy Woodcock (1958)
  • Fog in the Channel by Percy Woodcock (1958)
  • The Impossible Prefect by Hubert Robinson (1960)

Posters[edit]

Annuals[edit]

  • Hutchinson's Girls' Annual (n.d.)
  • Happy Times. Warne's Wearproof Books (n.d.)
  • Partridge's Children's Annual - 5th Year by Dorothea Moore et al (1913)
  • The Kiddies' Annual (1920)
  • The Kiddies' Annual (1923)
  • Chatterbox 1923 by J. Erskine Clarke (1923)
  • The School Friend Annual (1928)
  • The Schoolgirls' Own Annual (1928)
  • The Golden Annual for Girls (1928)
  • The Schoolgirls' Own Annual (1929)
  • Pip and Squeak Annual 1929 (1929)
  • The Boys Budget (1933)
  • Pip and Squeak Annual 1934 (1934)
  • The Greyfriars Holiday Annual for Boys and Girls by Frank Richards et al (1936)
  • The Boys Budget (1938)
  • Chums Annual (1939)
  • The Boy's Own Paper
  • The Champion Annual
  • Chatterbox and Little Folks

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Free BMD". FreeBMD. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Savile Lumley (b. 1876)". Royal Academy of Arts. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 17 February 2021.