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Last Name Tonks
Given Name Henry
alt. Names H. T. ;
Marriage not married
Children
Year born 1862 in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, UK
Year died 1937
Place of death Chelsea, London, England, UK
Father's occupation barrister, later gave up his law profession to join his father's brass-foundry in Birmingham
Relatives ten sisters and brothers ;
Education at Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton (MRCS, 1886, FRCS, 1888); Westminster School of Art (c.1890); Slade School of Fine Arts ass. to Frederick Brown
Country of Activity United Kingdom
Worked for Sir Harold Gillies (1882-1960): Plastic Surgery of Face 1920; Sir William Kelsey Fry (1889-1963); Slade School of Fine Arts
Patronage Westminster School of Art (was director 1917-30); Royal Army Medical Corps (WW I)
Collaborators
Techniques medical and anatomical pastel, drawing, pen-and-ink, sketching, and painting ;
Sample(s) www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTtonks.htm ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Tonks ;
Archival sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Tonks ;
Published sources AKL ; ThB 33 1939 277 ; Harold Ellis: H.T., Journal of Audiovisual Media in Medicine 20,1 (1997), 26-2 7 ;Lynda Morris: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004 ;
other Medical artist for Captain (later Sir) Harold Gillies, documenting surgery.
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