Hargrave, John Gordon (1894–1982), writer and illustrator, was born on 6 June 1894 at Midhurst, Sussex, the son of Gordon Hargrave, landscape painter, and his wife, Babette, née Bing. He attended Hawkshead grammar school in Lancashire for a short time and when he was fifteen illustrated ...
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Hargrave, John Gordon (1894–1982), writer and illustrator
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Dickens, Frank William Huline- [known as Frank Dickens] (1931–2016), cartoonist, illustrator, and writer
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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Jane, (John) Frederick Thomas (1865–1916), author, journalist, and illustrator
Robert Hutchinson
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Jane, (John) Frederick Thomas (1865–1916), author, journalist, and illustrator, was born in Richmond, Surrey, on 6 August 1865, the eldest of four sons and three daughters of the Revd John Jane, later vicar of Upottery, Devon, and his wife, Caroline, daughter of the ...
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Mansbridge, Norman Arthur (1911–1993), cartoonist, illustrator, and writer
Mark Bryant
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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Peacham, Henry (b. 1578, d. in or after 1644), writer and illustrator
John Horden
Peacham, Henry (b. 1578, d. in or after 1644), writer and illustrator, was born in the parish of North Mimms, Hertfordshire, the second son of Henry Peacham (1547–1634) and his wife, Anne (née Fairclough).
At the time of his son's birth, the elder ...
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Ray, Sukumar (1887–1923), writer and illustrator
Andrew Robinson
Ray, Sukumar (1887–1923), writer and illustrator, was born in Calcutta on 30 October 1887, the son of Upendrakishore Ray, otherwise Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury (1863–1915), a well-known Bengali writer, illustrator, song composer, publisher, and printer, and his wife, Bidhumukhi Devi. His father was a prominent figure in the western-influenced Hindu reform movement known as Brahmoism, which flourished in ...
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Rushton, William George [Willie] (1937–1996), cartoonist, comedian, and author
Ned Sherrin
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 ...