Monday, 18 March 2013

Ronald Searle


He was a British artist and cartoonist born 3 March 1920 in Cambridge he was also educated there at the Cambridge School of Art, and died 20 December 2011. He left his studies when World War 2 started and left to serve in the Royal Engineers and was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and held by them for three and a half years. He is also known as the creator of St Trinians School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willians on the Molesworth series. 
St Trinian's illustration by Ronald Searle

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