Sidney H. Sime: A Timeline of his Life

Year	Events
1867	Birth (uncertain; may have been as early as 1865) to a poor family in Manchester. Sime was one of six children.
1889	First picture exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1895	Sime joins the staff of Pick-Me-Upmagazine as an illustrator.
1896	Invited to contribute to The Idlermagazine, edited by Jerome K. Jerome.
1897	Sime's 'From an Ultimate Dim Thule', a series of bizarre drawings, begins to appear in The Idler.
1897-8	Edits Eureka magazine.
1898	Marriage to Mary Susan Pickett.Sime inherits money and property from a rich uncle, enabling him to move to Daldrishaig, in Perthshire, Scotland.Paints a number of Scottish landscapes.
1899	Purchases The Idler, and becomes editor.
1904	First Introduction to Lord Dunsany.
1905	Sime disposes of the unsuccessful Idler, selling the goodwill for only £5.00.
1907	Frontispiece for Arthur Machen's The Hill of Dreams.
1909	Frontispiece for William Hope Hodgson's The Ghost Pirates.
1910	Set and costume designs for Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird
1908	Provides illustrations for The Sword of Welleranby Dunsany.
1913	Set and costume designs for Ibsen's The Pretenders
1914	Outbreak of World War One. Sime enlists; spends time in Army Service Corps on the East Coast of Britain.
1917	Provides illustrations for Tales of Wonderby Dunsany.
1918	Invalided out of army with duodenal ulcer on Armistice Day.
1919	Provides illustrations for The Gods of Peganaby Dunsany.
1923	Provides illustrations for Time and the Godsby Dunsany.
1924	Provides frontispiece for The King of Elfland's Daughterby Dunsany.
1927	Sime holds one man show at St. George's Gallery.
1930	Publishes Bogey Beasts, a set of nonsense drawings reminiscent of From an Ultimate Dim Thule, with accompanying songs and music.
1936	illustration for My Talks with Dean Spanley by Dunsany.
1941	Dies in Guildford on the 22nd May.

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