Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe was born in Langley, Macclesfield, and attended the Macclesfield School of Art in 1916. He went on to win a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. He illustrated many books of natural history particularly those by Henry Williamson, and also novels by Alison Uttley and H.E.Bates among many others. Tunnicliffe worked in several media including oil painting, water-colours, etching and aquatint, wood-engraving, woodcut and scraper board. He became associate R.A. in 1944, fellow Royal Academy in 1954. Awarded a gold medal by the R.S.P.B. in 1975 and was made O.B.E. in 1978. Ref: Charles Tunnicliffe Prints, a catalogue raisonne. by Robert Meyrick and Harry Heuser: Royal Academy of Arts 2017.