Villiers, Frederic, 1852-1922

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Name (Latin)
Villiers, Frederic, 1852-1922
Other forms of name
Villiers, Frederic, b. 1851
nnaa Villiers, Frederic, 1851 or 1852-1922
nnea Villiers, Frederic, 1851 or 2-1922
Villiers, Frederic, 1851-1922
Date of birth
1852-04-23
Date of death
1922-04-05
Place of birth
London (England)
Place of death
London (England)
Associated country
England
Great Britain
Other associated place
France
Egypt
Sudan
Afghanistan
India
South Africa
Occupation
Artists
War artists
Illustrators
Journalists
War correspondents
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Library of congress: no2004034147
OCoLC: oca06319044
DLC: no2004034147
Sources of Information
  • OCLC, Apr. 7, 2004(hdgs.: Villiers, Frederic, 1852-, Villiers, Frederic, 1851-1922; usage: Frederic Villiers)
  • Mortlake collection of English life and letters, 1591-1963(Frederic Villiers; b. Apr. 23, 1852, London; war artist, correspondent)
  • Dict. of Brit. Artists Working 1900-1950, v.1, 1975(Villiers, Frederic; b. 1852; d. 1922)
  • Biog. Index 14, 1986(Villiers, Frederic; b. 1851; d. 1922)
  • Wikipedia, March 13, 2019(Frederic Villiers; born 23 April 1851, London; died 5 April 1922, London; British war artist and war correspondent; educated in France; art student at the British Museum and in South Kensington, and at the Royal Academy Schools; first volunteered to serve as a war artist for The Graphic in 1876 at outbreak of was between Serbia and Turkey; covered war in Afghanistan, India, Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, among many other locations; worked primarily for The Graphic but also supplied illustrations to Black and White and others)
  • New York Times, Villiers is dead; writer of war, April 5, 1922, viewed online March 13, 2019(Frederic Villiers, famous war correspondent and artist, died here (London) today; observer of 21 conflicts; last year, just after his 69th birthday, April 23, the British Government gave him a pension of £100; prototype for Dick Heldar, the tragic hero of Kipling's "The Light That Failed")