Malcolm Osborne

Chronology

• 1 August 1880 born at Frome, Somerset, the fourth son of Alfred Arthur Osborne, Schoolmaster, and his wife Sarah Elizabeth née Biggs,. He grew up in Frome and moved to Streatham, London with his elder brother Harold in the early 1900s.
• educated at the Merchant Venturers' Technical College, Bristol
• 1901-1906 studied etching and engraving under Sir Frank Short at Royal College of Art, South Kensington
• 1904 published his first etching
• World War I served in Artists' Rifles and 60th Division in France, Salonika and Palestine
• 11 June 1918 elected Associate Engraver of Royal Academy
• 1924 succeeded Short as the Head of the etching and engraving school when Short retired.
• 13 Apr 1926 elected full member of the Royal Academy
• 1927 Kensington, London married Amy Margaret Stableford.
• 1938-1962 held the position of President Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers
• 1948 awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 1 January 1956 elected Senior member of the Royal Academy
• 22 September 1963 died Kensington, London, England

  Memberships and awards

• Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• Member of the Royal Academy
• President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers

  Students

• Edward Bouverie Hoyton was born at Lewisham in south London in 1900. He studied etching under Malcolm Osborne and Stanley Anderson at Goldsmiths' College, New Cross, south London.
• Geoffrey Wedgwood
• James Henry Govier
• James T.A. Osborne