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William Mecham (1853 – 21 August 1902) was a British cartoonist and performer, taking the stage and pen name Tom Merry. He was a professional caricaturist who gave 'Lightning Cartoon' presentations on the music hall stage, and was the first celebrity of any kind to appear in a British film. ==Cartoonist== William Mecham was born in the first quarter of 1853, in the parish of St Saviour, Southwark.〔GRO index'' Births Mar 1853, Volume 1d, p.18〕 Merry was a cartoonist and political satirist, he created the centre spread in colour of ''The St Stephen's Review'', a weekly magazine of political comment published from 1883 to 1892, when it became ''Big Ben'', and closed the following year. Thirty four political lithographs, of statesmen of the era are in the collection of the House of Commons.〔(''Tom Merry: Lithographs of political figures'' (Parliamentary archives) ) accessed 3 Nov 2007〕 A number of presentation (signed) copies were also in the personal collection of Winston Churchill, with his father, Lord Randolph Churchill as subject.〔(''Political cartoons, mainly by "Tom Merry" for the St Stephen's Review'' (Churchill Archives Centre Miscellaneous Holding) ) accessed 3 Nov 2007〕 He also published in the London edition of the American satirical ''Puck Magazine'', from January 1889 to June 1890. Merry's musical hall stage act appears to have involved high speed drawing of subjects drawn both from the audience, and of famous figures from memory. The caricatures were drawn at a furious pace, as can be seen in the films that survive. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Mecham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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