<Tr> <Th> Nationality </Th> <Td> British </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Known for </Th> <Td> Illustration, Children's literature, Political cartoons </Td> </Tr> <P> Sir John Tenniel (28 February 1820--25 February 1914) was an English illustrator, graphic humourist, and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century . He was knighted for his artistic achievements in 1893 . Tenniel is remembered especially as the principal political cartoonist for Punch magazine for over 50 years, and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking - Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). </P> <P> Tenniel was born in Bayswater, West London, to John Baptist Tenniel, a fencing and dancing master of Huguenot descent, and Eliza Maria Tenniel . Tenniel had five siblings; two brothers and three sisters . One sister, Mary, was later to marry Thomas Goodwin Green, owner of the pottery that produced Cornishware . Tenniel was a quiet and introverted person, both as a boy and as an adult . He was content to remain firmly out of the limelight and seemed unaffected by competition or change . His biographer Rodney Engen wrote that Tenniel's "life and career was that of the supreme gentlemanly outside, living on the edge of respectability ." </P>

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