British Cartoon Archive - biographies

A. E. Beard was born in Birmingham on 16 January 1902. He studied at the Birmingham School of Art, and...

Alex Noel Watson was born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, on 2 December 1929, the son of Alex Grant Watson, a journalist,...

Born in 1900, Alfred J. Sindall drew the Paul Temple strip in the London Evening News from 1951 to...

Arthur John Ferrier was born in Glasgow on 15 November 1890, the son of John Ferrier, an organist. He...

Barry Gurbutt was born in Louth in Lincolnshire on 13 January 1933. Educated in Lincoln, he did National Service before going to...

Bernard Cookson was born in Manchester on 3 January 1937, the son of Richard Cookson, an engineer. From 1953...

Bill Caldwell was born in Glasgow on 30 September 1946, the son of William McComish, an opera singer and musical...

William Edward “Bill” Tidy was born in Tranmere, Cheshire, on 9 October 1933, the son of William Edward Tidy and...

Michael ffolkes was born Brian Davis in London on 6 June 1925, the son of the commercial graphic artist Walter Lawrence...

Colin Whittock was born in Birmingham on 25 February 1940. Having failed “O” level art at the Central Grammar School,...

Cyril Jacob was born in Dulwich, London, on 25 February 1926, the second of four sons of William Charles...

David Myers was born in London on 8 December 1925, the son of Sidney Myers, a civil engineer, and his...

Don Roberts was born in Devon on 17 April 1936, the son of a hotelier. After spending more than seven...

Eric Burgin was born in Maidenhead on 3 February 1926 and educated at Gordon Road School in the town. At...

Frank Dickens was born in Hornsey, North London, on 2 February 1932, the son of a painter and decorator....

George Adamson was born in New York City on 7 February 1913, the son of George William Adamson, an engineer....

Gerald Scarfe was born on 1 June 1936 in St John’s Wood, London, the son of Reginald Scarfe, a City...

Hector Breeze was born in London on 17 November 1928, and educated at Dartford Technical College. He was first...

Jack Dunkley was born in Holloway, London, in 1906, and educated at Sir Hugh Middleton Secondary School. At the age...

John Musgrave-Wood was born in Leeds on 22 February 1915, the son of Gerald Musgrave-Wood, a painter of landscapes and...

John Jensen was born John Gibson in Sydney, Australia, on 8 August 1930, the son of the cartoonist Jack Gibson....

Joe Lee was born in Burley-in-Wharfedale, near Leeds, on 16 May 1901. He won a scholarship to Leeds Grammar School,...

Keith Waite was born in New Plymouth, New Zealand, on 19 March 1927, the son of Albert Waite, the owner...

Les Barton was born on 8 December 1923 in Wareham, Dorset. A self-taught artist, he started work at the...

Leslie David ‘Les Gibbard was born on 26 October 1945 in Kaiapoi, New Zealand, the son of Ray and...

Mathew Abraham was born in Mavelikara, Kerala, India on 11 June 1924, the son of A.M. Mathew, a lawyer....

Mike Molloy was born in Hertfordshire on 22 December 1940. He was educated at Ealing Junior School and Ealing...

Mike Williams was born in Liverpool on 24 February 1940, he attended Quarry Bank Grammar School. A self-taught artist,...

Norman Mansbridge was born on 22 July 1911 in Wanstead, Essex, the son of Arthur Mansbridge, a writer and...

Peter Clarke was born on 18 September 1937. He was political cartoonist on Time & Tide in 1961 and...

Peter Maddocks was born in Birmingham on 1 April 1928, the son of a bus driver. In 1939, when...

Ralph Sallon was born Rachmiel David Zelon (or Zielun) in the village of Sheps near Warsaw, in what was then...

Ralph Steadman was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, on 15 May 1936, the son of Lionel Raphael Steadman, a commercial...

Rex Audley was born in Cobridge in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire in 1927. He was educated at Wolstanton County Grammar School...

Roger Mahoney was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire in 1933. From 1947 to 1951 studied art at the Southern College...

Roy Dewar was born in Battersea, London, and left school aged 15. After the death of Timothy Birdsall in...

Roy Raymonde was born on 26 December 1929 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, the son of Juliana Patricia Quinn and Barry...

Stanley Parker (1909-1981) was a Melbourne and London cartoonist signing himself ‘Spark’, who contributed to the Daily Sketch in...

Stan McMurtry was born in Edinburgh on 4 May 1936, but moved to Birmingham at the age of eight. His...

Tony Holland was born in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, on 7 August 1932, the son of a schoolmaster. He went to...