Margaret Mary Tempest (1892–1982) was a British illustrator and author, best known for her illustrations of

Alison Uttley Alison Jane Uttley ( Taylor; 17 December 1884 – 7 May 1976) was an English writer of over 100 books. She is best known for a children's series about Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig. She is also remembered for a pioneering time slip novel for ch ...

Little Grey Rabbit Little Grey Rabbit is the lead character in a classic, eponymous series of English children's books, written by Alison Uttley and illustrated by Margaret Tempest, except for the last five, illustrated by Katherine Wigglesworth. They appeared over ...

books.

Life

Margaret Tempest was born at 2 Fonnereau Road,

Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Suffolk, England. It is the county town, and largest in Suffolk, followed by Lowestoft and Bury St Edmunds, and the third-largest population centre in East Anglia, ...

, Suffolk, in 1892. She lived most of her life in the town, attending Ipswich High School,

Ipswich School of Art Ipswich School of Art (ISA) was an art school in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It was founded as the Ipswich School of Science and Art which opened on . It continued to have an independent existence until , when it was absorbed by the University ...

and then the Westminster School of Art graduating in 1914. She was co-founder of the Chelsea Illustrators Club through which former students exhibited and sold their art. From 1929 until the 1960s she illustrated the

books, as well as other children's books. She also wrote and illustrated her own books of the "dressed animal" type, notably the Curly Cobbler series. She illustrated a number of religious-themed books such as ''A Sunday Book for Children'' (1954) and ''Little Lamb of Bethlehem'' (1957). She married Sir Edward Grimwood Mears, in 1951. Her step-grandson was the physician Alex Paton.

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Illustration of "The Witch's House"
Victoria and Albert collection. 1892 births 1982 deaths 20th-century English women artists Artists from Ipswich Alumni of the Westminster School of Art British women children's book illustrators English children's book illustrators English children's writers {{UK-illustrator-stub