Songs and Their Singers

A staff cartoonist for Punch magazine, Phil May was born in 1864, the second son of Phillip May, and engineer from Staffordshire. He was educated at St. George's School, Leeds, and worked on the Sydney Bulletin for three years, St. Stephen's Review for a further two years, then travelled America fo rthe Graphic before joining the staff of Punch. He published 3 volumes of cartoons and sketches between 1891 and 1896, and died in August of 1903.