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F. C. Burnand (1836-1917) was an editor of the comic journal ''Punch'' and author of ''The Z.Z.G., or Zig Zag Guide round and about the bold and beautiful Kentish coast…'' with illustrations by Phil May. He lived in Ramsgate from at least 1875 until his death.
 
F. C. Burnand (1836-1917) was an editor of the comic journal ''Punch'' and author of ''The Z.Z.G., or Zig Zag Guide round and about the bold and beautiful Kentish coast…'' with illustrations by Phil May. He lived in Ramsgate from at least 1875 until his death.

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F. C. Burnand (1836-1917)

Lived in Ramsgate from around 1875 - until death in 1917

Publication: The Z.Z.G., or Zig Zag Guide round and about the bold and beautiful Kentish coast…, 1897.


'The New Pier, many years old by now, for entrance to which, as being something superior, twopence is charged, is an instance of that kind of half-fulfilled promise whereof Ramsgate generally offers several evident examples. But while there is a pier there is hope, and it may yet occur to its proprietors, or to the local authorities, to say, after the manner of Mr Wemmick, out of office-hours, in Great Expectations, "Hello! Here’s a pier! Let’s do something with it!"’ The Z.Z.G.


Image: JOB FOR CO: Ask National Portrait Gallery if can use ‘Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (1836–1917) by Walery’


F. C. Burnand (1836-1917) was an editor of the comic journal Punch and author of The Z.Z.G., or Zig Zag Guide round and about the bold and beautiful Kentish coast… with illustrations by Phil May. He lived in Ramsgate from at least 1875 until his death.

Article Sir Francis Cowley Burnand (knighted in 1902) is best known as the editor of Punch from 1880-1906, serialising the Grossmiths’ runaway success Diary of a Nobody in 1888. In 1897 he and Punch artist Phil May adopted the Dickensian personae ‘T’other Guv’nor’ and ‘T’otherst Guv’nor’ for their collaboration on the comic but informative Z.Z.G., or Zig Zag Guide round and about the bold and beautiful Kentish coast…. Despite Punch’s habitual disdain of Three Men in a Boat and its lower middle class author, May himself also worked with Jerome K. Jerome (who as editor of The Idler complained bitterly of the illustrator’s shoddy attitude to deadlines). In the Z.Z.G. Burnand includes a number of knowing jokes about Ramsgate as well as Margate, [Broadstairs]] and Sandwich as if from the standpoint of an itinerant tourist. In fact the 1887 Street Directory locates a Frederick Charles Burnand at 18 Royal Crescent (where Burnand died in 1917); the 1911 census shows that while Francis’s fifth son Philip was born in Middlesex (now part of London) in 1869, his fourth daughter Mary was born in Ramsgate in 1875. Burnand died of bronchitis on 21 April 1917, and is buried in the cemetery attached to St Augustine's Abbey church in Ramsgate.

Bibliography Burnand, Frances Cowley, illustrated by Phil May. The Z.Z.G., or Zig Zag Guide round

 and about the bold and beautiful Kentish coast…[ellipsis in original]. 1897.