Biography

Cecil Tatton-Winter (b.1895) was the son of the renowned watercolour artist William Tatton-Winter R.B.A. (1855-1928) and Edith Constance Tatton-Winter (born Fox Hudson).  Born in the North of England, William Tatton-Winter studied at the Manchester Academy of Fine Art and joined the Manchester Athenaeum Graphic Club.  However, he left the North of England to be closer to London and eventually settled in Reigate, Surrey.  He received royal recognition of his work from both Queen Victoria and Queen Mary and he exhibited Europe-wide.

Tatton-Winter’s son, Cecil, served in the army during the First World War with the Royal Hampshire Regiment and he considered making the army his career.  However, on his father’s advice he became an architect instead, also producing etchings and very fine work in watercolour.  He remained in Reigate where he is remembered and celebrated with his father as a successful artist.

Cecil Tatton-Winter married Glenolva Fanny H.M. Tatton-Winter and together they had four children.  He died in 1954, aged 59, and is buried alongside his family in Reigate Cemetery, near St Mary’s churchyard in Chart Lane, close to the Grammar School’s Garden of Remembrance whose wrought iron gates he designed.  As pointed out by Maureen Beasley’s ‘Five Centuries of Art in Sutton’* the Tatton-Winters rest in good company, the remains of the artists John Linnell and Samuel Palmer being nearby in Reigate Cemetery.

‘Five Centuries of Art in Sutton’, Maureen Beasley, 1989, London Borough of Sutton.