Rosemary Grimble


Rosemary Anne Grimble 'Seligman' was a British illustrator, artist, writer, and photographer.
Rosemary Grimble was born on January 1917 in Tarawa, the second of four children of Sir Arthur Grimble, Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. She was the first English child born in the Gilbert Islands and learned Gilbertese as her first language. She studied art at the Central School of Art in London. She worked as a freelance book and magazine illustrator and also served as an art editor for the magazines Housewife and Picture Post.

Personal life

In 1950, she married writer and naval officer Adrian Seligman. They had two sons.