English artist William Roger Snow (1834-1907) had a distinguished army career of over twenty years, during which he spent time in the Crimea, Hong Kong, Canada, and Ireland. His first published work was "Sketches of Chinese Life & Character," published in 1860. He went on to publish numerous plays and produced many paintings, after which he changed his name twice in an effort to escape scandal and legal action brought about by an adulterous affair. Snow was the author and illustrator of a prolific amount of adult and children's literature, under the alias Clifford Merton and later Richard André. He died at the age of 75, an upstanding and remarried pillar of respectability in his Hertfordshire community.
