Artist and cartoonist. Born Cambridge and studied art. In WW2 at the start of 1942 he was in the Royal Engineers in Singapore which fell to the Japanese and he was taken prisoner and spent the rest of the war as a POW. During this time, close to death himself, he documented the appalling conditions in drawings which he kept hidden and then published on release. This self-portrait dates from 1943.
Many people know his illustrations for the St Trinian's books.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Ronald Searle
Designed by architect Chris Roche. The railway sleepers and track, symbolic o...
Comic artist and illustrator. Born in Finsbury Park. He started his career as a book illustrator, and during WW1 began drawing cartoons of unlikely secret weapons. His later works of wonderfully co...
From:johncoulthart: ". . the model for Eros was one Angelo Colarossi whose father was also named Angelo Colarossi and was the model for Leighton’s python wrangler. Colarossi Snr, an Italian immigr...
Architect and artist. Born Lambeth. Founding member of RIBA. Travelled extensively and illustrated topographical publications. Waymarking has the text of a 1997 paper by Leslie du Cane which sa...
Author and illustrator. Born Alfred Edmeades Bestall in Mandalay, Burma. He served in the army during WW1, transporting troops in red double-decker buses. Following his studies at the L.C.C. Centra...
This college has its origins in the temperance Royal Victoria Coffee and Music Hall. In 1882, using the back-stage and the dressing rooms of the theatre, Emma Cons introduced Tuesday “penny” lectur...
British History Online provides a quite detailed history of the police force and where it was located.
Artist and illustrator. Born Charles Samuel Keene in Duvals Lane, Hornsey. He studied law, but abandoned this in favour of illustrating. He became well known for his work in The Illustrated London ...
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