Antonia Yeoman

Antonia Yeoman born Beryl Botterill Thompson sometimes known as Anton (24 July 1907 – 30 June 1970) was an Australian-English cartoonist and illustrator.

Life

Yeoman was born in Esk in Queensland, Australia as Beryl Botterill Thompson. Her father was an English rancher and he was working there looking after a sheep farm. Their parents took them to visit England where her brother was born and her father died. Her mother Ida May (Cooke), who had been a Brisbane headteacher, decided to settle in the UK at Brighton. Yeoman suffered from tuberculosis of the spine through her childhood. She had to use her other hand after the disease took two of her fingers. Nevertheless, she trained at the Royal Academy and under artist and painter Stephen Spurrier.

Yeoman's first popular cartoons were as part of the partnership with her brother, Harold Underwood Thompson. She and her brother published under the name of "Anton". In time her brother found other interests directing an advertising company but Yeoman continued on alone. Yeoman worked regularly for The Tatler, Men Only, The New Yorker, London's Evening Standard, Private Eye and Punch.

Yeoman died in Chelsea in 1970.