The Brocks were family of artists in Cambridge at the end of the Victorian Era, throughout the Edwardian era and the Interwar period. The four brothers were professional painters and illustrators. Two brothers (Charles Edmund and Henry Matthew) gained a large reputation with their illustrations for the works of Jane Austen and others English classics. One brother secured an honours degree in mathematics, a huge achievement at the time for someone from a lower-middle-class background. The three sisters had a much lower profile, in accordance with the social norms of the time. At least one of the sisters was a capable artist and poet, but it is not clear to what extent she earned her living from her art. The biographer of the family, Clifford Michael Kelly, started out with the intention of writing just about Charles and Henry, the most famous of them, but realised that all the siblings worked together and supported each other. The parents Edmund Brock (third quarter of 18403 April 1921) is listed in the 1861 census as a bootmaker, boarding with Henry Stone, a bootmaker with three employees, in Islington, London. Edmund married Mary Ann Louise Pegram (1835third quarter 1912) at Regent's Park Chapel on 23 February 1867. She was the daughter of Thomas Weeley Pegram (c. 1811fourth quarter of 1893), whom the census report to have the occupation of barrister's clerk in 1851, a photographic artist in 1861, and a photographer in 1871. The Pegams were an artistic family, and one of Mary Ann's nephews was the sculptor Henry Alfred Pegram (27 July 186225 March 1937). The illustrator Fred Pegram (19 December 187023 August 1937), and his brother, the sculptor and medallist Alfred Bertram Pegram (17 January 187314 January 1941) were also her nephews. Edmund Brock must have been very able, as by the mid-1860s he was a member of the Early English Text Society, and was publishing his own work with the Society. The British Library show that among the works he translated or edited individually were: 1865 The Grammatical Forms of Southern English, ab. A.D. 1220-30, occurring in the Ancren Riwle 1871 Morte Arthure, or, The Death of Arthur (1871) a new edition He also worked with together with other scholars on the Canterbury Tales and other medieval texts. He moved to Cambridge to become a reader in medieval and oriental languages for the Cambridge University Press. Education The Brock children