Thomas Claude Wade Midwood was a prolific cartoonist and artist, draftsman and musician. He was born in 1854 to Edwin and Susan Midwood (formerly Ross) and died in 1912. Midwood attended the Hutchins School and then went on to work in the Hobart Post Office. He left Tasmania to work as a seaman, spent time in the United States as part of a musical ensemble and then returned to Hobart. He remained an illustrator, caricaturist and commercial artist while employed as a draftsman in the government Department of Lands and Works. He married Beatrice Ada Hewitt in 1883 and they had children Walter George, Edwin, Estelle Louise, Reginald Thomas and Gladys Evelyn.