Person DS/UK/92 McCannell; William Otway (1883-1969); Artist; Painter McCannell William Otway 1883-1969 Artist; Painter William Otway Mac Cannell; William Otway Cannell

Otway McCannell was head of Farnham School of Art in the 1920s. He attended Nelson College in New Zealand, and in 1905 he won an art scholarship at the Royal College of Art in London. He exhibited The Devil's Chessboard at the Royal Academy in 1924. He was the author of a book entitled Fighting Types (1919) that contained portraits of men and women who had served in various branches of the armed forces in the Great War. - See more at: http://www.crawfordartgallery.ie/pages/paintings/William_Otway_Mccannell.html#sthash.NYUBUts9.dpuf His daughter was the artist Ursula McCannell http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp90321/otway-mccannell http://www.crawfordartgallery.ie/pages/paintings/William_Otway_Mccannell.html International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes UCARTaylor 01/06/2015 UCARTaylor 01/06/2015 72cad092-7430-49b4-86a2-b58be8c3f318