Tom Glover (cartoonist)


Thomas Ellis Glover was a cartoonist, caricaturist, court reporter and journalist, working in New Zealand and Australia.
Glover was born in England but moved to New Zealand as a child. His career is generally considered to have started when, while working as an 'elevator boy' he drew and exhibited caricatures of his passengers. In New Zealand, he cartooned for the Truth while also contributing to the Free Lance under the name T Ellis.
Glover began working for the
Sydney Bulletin in 1922 before moving to the Sydney Sun in the 1930s.
Glover 'died suddenly at his desk' at the
Sun'' in 1938.