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(Cyril) Kenneth Bird [Fougasse] (1887–1965) by Howard Coster, 1934 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bird, (Cyril) Kenneth [pseud. Fougasse] (1887–1965), cartoonist and journal editor, was born on 17 December 1887 at 26 Westbourne Terrace Road, London, the younger son of Arthur Bird, a London merchant and a prominent cricketer and first-class shot, and his wife, Mary Wheen...
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(Charles) Mark Edward Boxer [Marc] (1931–1988) self-portrait, 1976 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Mark Amory
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Boxer, (Charles) Mark Edward [pseud. Marc] (1931–1988), cartoonist and magazine editor, was born on 19 May 1931 in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, the only son and younger child of Lieutenant-Colonel (Harold) Stephen Boxer, garage owner and car salesman, and his wife, Isobel Victoria Hughlings Jackson...
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George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier (1834–1896) self-portrait, c. 1856 private collection
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Leonée Ormond
Du Maurier, George Louis Palmella Busson (1834–1896), illustrator, cartoonist, and novelist, was born on 6 March 1834 at 80 Champs Elysées, Paris, and baptized in May 1835 at Rotherfield, Sussex, the eldest of the three children of Louis-Mathurin Busson Du Maurier (1797–1856) and his wife, ...
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Hodgson, Ralph Edwin (1871–1962), poet and cartoonist, born at 2 Garden Street, Darlington, co. Durham, on 9 September 1871, the sixth son in the family of seven sons and three daughters of Ralph Hodgson (1834–1884), coal and coke merchant, and Mary Hodgson, née...
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Gerard Hoffnung (1925–1959) by Peter Keen, late 1950s © Peter Keen; collection National Portrait Gallery, London
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Richard Ingrams
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Hoffnung, Gerard [formerly Gerhardt] (1925–1959), cartoonist and musical humorist, was born in Grünewald, Berlin, on 22 March 1925, the only child of German-Jewish parents, Ludwig Hoffnung, a wealthy grain merchant, and his wife, Hilde, a widow, whose first husband, Schnabel, was killed in the First World War. His mother was a keen amateur musician and artist who encouraged his artistic talents. From his earliest years he was interested in the macabre—fairy tales, practical jokes, and the comic drawings of the famous German illustrators and caricaturists....
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Mark Bryant
Dickens, Frank William Huline- [known as Frank Dickens] (1931–2016), cartoonist, illustrator, and writer, was born at 99 Tottenham Lane, Hornsey, London, on 9 December 1931, the eldest of six children (two sons and four daughters) of William James Charles Huline-Dickens (...
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Mansbridge, Norman Arthur (1911–1993), cartoonist, illustrator, and writer, was born on 22 July 1911 at 6 Woodcote Road, Wanstead, Essex, the elder child and only son of Arthur Mansbridge (1879–1963), a writer and illustrator of children’s books who also drew strips for children’s comics, and his wife, ...
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Rushton, William George [Willie] (1937–1996), cartoonist, comedian, and author, was born on 18 August 1937 at 3 Wilbraham Place, Chelsea, the only child of John Atherton Rushton (d. 1958), a publisher, and his Welsh wife, Veronica Hannah Gilbert James. Willie Rushton was educated at ...
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William George Rushton (1937–1996) by Tim Cuff Apex Photo Agency Ltd
