Biography:
Charles Crombie (1880-1967)
Crombie was a cartoonist the third son of Scots architect James Crombie and his wife Bridget Philadelphia Vince. Born at Dumfries, Scotland. By 1901 Charles Crombie was working as a sculptor and artist, from his family home at 25 Rumsey Road, Lambeth. He specialised in cartoons and illustrations. H
Charles Crombie continued to produce illustrations for books and magazines in the UK and US throughout the 1920s and 1930s, including the Dodd Mead edition of W M Thackery’s Vanity Fair (New York City, 1924). Charles Crombie died in Hitchin, Hertfordshire aged 86 in 1967.