Frederic Villiers

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Frederic Villiers
Born(1851-04-23)23 April 1851
London, England
Died5 April 1922(1922-04-05) (aged 70)
London, England
Occupation(s)War artist, war correspondent

Frederic Villiers (23 April 1851 – 5 April 1922) was a British

The Light that Failed
.

Biography

Born in

Royal Academy Schools. In 1876 while walking down Holborn, he noticed a crowd reading a poster of an evening paper stating that Serbia had declared war on Turkey. He immediately decided to contact the paper, The Graphic
, offering his services as a war artist. The paper took him up on his offer and it was the beginning of a long career covering wars and conflicts around the globe.

Having reported on the

Bombardment of Alexandria.[5]

The following year saw him in

Gordon relief expedition. He covered the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1886, the Third Anglo-Burmese War of 1887, the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894–95, and the Greco-Turkish War
of 1897.

In 1898, he was one of the artists sent to cover the campaign in Sudan which culminated at

Boer War where he accompanied the Kimberley Relief Column
.

During the

First World War
, Villiers was particularly frustrated during the opening months for not being allowed to go near the front

Villiers worked primarily for

Royal Academy
, the first in 1882 entitled 'The road home; the return of an Imperial brigade from Afghanistan', and in the following year 'Fighting Arabi with his own weapons; an incident of the Battle of Tel el-Kebir'.

He was awarded twelve medals and war decorations over his career,[7] including awards from Russia, Romania, the Egyptian Khedive's Star, and the Serbian Order of Takova.

Villiers gave frequent illustrated lectures and published several autobiographical works describing his experiences at the front.

He died on 5 April 1922.[1]

Bibliography

  • Villiers, Frederic (March 1895). "The Truth about Port Arthur". North American Review. 160 (460): 325–330.
    JSTOR 25103490
    .
  • "My recent journey from the Nile to Suakim," Journal of the Society of Arts, 4 February 1898, pp. 233–240.
  • Pictures of Many Wars (1902)
  • Port Arthur, three months with the besiegers; a diurnal of occurrents. London and New York: Longmans, Green and Co. 1905. Retrieved 29 July 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  • Peaceful Personalities and Warriors Bold. London and New York: Harper & Brothers. 1907. Retrieved 29 July 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  • Days of glory; the sketch book of a veteran correspondent at the front; with an introduction by Philip Gibbs. New York: George H. Doran. 1920. Retrieved 29 July 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  • Villiers: His Five Decades of Adventure. Vol. 1. New York and London: Harper & Brothers. 1920. Retrieved 29 July 2018 – via Internet Archive.; Villiers: His Five Decades of Adventure. Vol. 2. New York and London: Harper & Brothers. 1920. Retrieved 29 July 2018 – via Internet Archive.

Further reading

  • Bottomore, Steve, "Frederic Villiers - war correspondent," Sight and Sound, Vol. XLIX, No. 4, Autumn 1980, pp. 250–255.
  • Bullard, F. Lauriston (1914). "FREDERIC VILLIERS". Famous War Correspondents. Boston: Little, Brown & Company. pp. 155–193. Retrieved 29 July 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  • Compton, Roy, "Mr. Frederic Villiers," The Idler, Vol. XII, No. 11, September 1897, pp. 239–255.
  • Hodgson, Pat. (1977). The War Illustrators. New York: Macmillan.
  • ISBN 0-8108-4927-5

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Villiers Is Dead. Writer of War". The New York Times. 6 April 1922.
  2. ^ "Villiers, Frederic". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. pp. 1803–1804.
  3. ISBN 0-313-29171-3
    .
  4. ^ Forbes, Archibald (1895). Memories and Studies of War and Peace (2nd ed.). London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Company Limited. pp. 17, 21, 25, 188, 275. Retrieved 27 July 2018 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ Famous Fighters of the Fleet, Edward Fraser, 1904, p.300
  6. ^ Kowner, Historical Dictionary of the Russo-Japanese War, p. 409.
  7. ^ "Obituary: Frederic Villiers". Publishers' Weekly. 101: 1120. 1922.

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