Edgar Alfred Holloway (1870 – 1941) was an illustrator of children's books.

Holloway was born inDoncaster,Yorkshire. He became awar artist during theBoer War. He excelled in military uniform portraits and he worked extensively forGale and Polden producing military uniform pictures for theirpostcard series. His illustrations have subsequently been reprinted in books onBritish army uniforms.^[1]

Holloway contributed illustrations to theBoy's Own Paper andYoung England magazine and illustrated numerous children's books - mostly adventure books for boys. In 1911 he was living at 35 Milton Road,Hanwell, Middlesex, with his wife Mildred Kate Holloway, son Francis Gilbert Holloway (18) and daughter Leila Mildred Holloway (14). His occupation was stated as painter artist.^[2]

Holloway emigrated to Australia in 1920^[3] and illustrated a number of books for the Cornstalk Publishing Company inSydney. He died in the Sydney suburb ofBurwood, in 1941.^[4]

Between 1930 and 1941 Edgar married Eva Margaret and went on to do paintings for theConsolation magazine.

• ABC of Jolly Jack, London,Gale & Polden, ca. 1920.
• Soldiers of Many Lands, London, Gale & Polden, 1917.
• A wounded soldier is found by a rescue dog who alerts the nurse and ambulancemen of their whereabouts. Coloured chromolithograph, 1904

• Owen Vaughan (Owen Rhoscom),Lone Tree Lode, London: Duckworth & Co.,1913.
• W.E. Cule,Rodborough School, Pilgrim Press, 1915.
• D.E. Alarcon, D. Pedro,The Three-Cornered Hat. Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1925.
• Mary Grant Bruce,Hugh Stanford's Luck. Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1925.
• E. V. Tims (David Roseler).Lawrence, Prince of Mecca. Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1927.
• E. V. Tims (David Roseler).The Valley of Adventure. Cornstalk Publishing Company, Sydney, 1929.

• Media related toEdgar Alfred Holloway at Wikimedia Commons

• Works by Edgar Alfred Holloway atFaded Page (Canada)
• The Canadian Anglo-Boer War Museum
• "Holloway, Edgar A." See AusLit: The Australian Literary Resource. Retrieved2008-09-11.
• Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library collection of 43 water-colors by Holloway painted forGale and Polden depicting British regimental uniforms, 1909-1916.

• 1870 births
• 1941 deaths
• 19th-century war artists
• Artists from Bradford
• British children's book illustrators
• British illustrators
• British war artists
• British emigrants to Australia

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