George Fothergill

1868 - 1945

George Algernon Fothergill, MB (1868-1945).
A multi-talented man who was both painter and illustrator of very many sporting sketches, a potter, an author and a doctor. Educated at Uppingham School and Edinburgh University he studied medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. Fothergill became the resident clinical assistant in a lunatic asylum until 1901 when he ceased to practise medicine, turning more and more to art and writing. His literary work includes "A Riding Retrospect" (1895), "An Old Raby Hunt Album" (1899), "Notes from a Diary of a Doctor, Sketch Artist and Sportsman" (1901) and "A North Country Album" (1902). Fothergill contributed amusing hunting sketches to Messrs. Fores (1905) entitled "Hunting Types". His patrons included Edward VII, the German Emperor, the Duke of Leeds, the Marquis of Zetland and the Earls of Lonsdale and Rosebery. Taken from A Dictionary of Sporting Artists 1650 - 1990 by Mary Ann Wingfield.

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