The Resume

(1857-August 8, 1937)
Born in Onchan, Isle of Man
Watercolor illustrator of characters in Charles Dickens literature (The Characters of Charles Dickens in 1889 and Some Well Known Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens in 1892)
Subject of ‘The Curious Case of Joseph Clayton Clark’ by Robert R Wark (1996)

Why he might be annoying:

In life or death, among other things, proper snapshots of him were nearly impossible to come by.
History is not clear on the date of his birth.
Even in the most casual of settings, it was a challenge to catch him out of a grey suit, homburg (felt hat with a dented ‘gutter’ crown), or carnation in a buttonhole.
He blew a great deal of his income at the racetrack.
His stint at Punch (a 19th-century British humor magazine) lasted all of a single day.
Not until more than four decades after his death would clear details about his life emerge in earnest (not that they were clear in life, either).

Why he might not be annoying:

Though he himself never served, he was named for his father, a captain of the British Army.
He also designed cigarette cards (predecessor of the contemporary sports trading card) and postcards.
A few of his drawings depicted the average reader of local London publications (Some Typical Newspaper Readers, circa 1900), such as the Sunday Referee or The Daily Mail.
Once he left Punch, he moved to Fleet Street Magazine — and never looked back.
In time, he moved his family out of the London metropolis into a West Sussex town rather than ‘Dickens-land’ (Kent).
Several of his watercolors were issued as stamps to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Dickens’ birth.

Credit: Cool It All Right?

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• AmIAnnoying's First Published Profile of Each Year (Ranked: 2018)
• Breeders [Have 5 or More Kids] (Ranked: 10)
• Cool It All Right?'s Profiles [Series 14]
• I Died in 1937 (Ranked: 80)
• Known By a Single Name
• Look at Me, My Picture Is Art
• My Spouse is at Least Ten Years Younger than Me
• Profiles 42292-42500 (Ranked: 42377)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 13 Votes: 76.92% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying