biography
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Low, Sir David (Alexander Cecil)
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| lived:
| (1891–1963)
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| biography:
| Political cartoonist, born in Dunedin, New Zealand. After working for several newspapers in New Zealand and for the Bulletin of Sydney, he joined the Star in London, then the Evening Standard in 1927, for which he drew some of his most successful cartoons. His work ridiculed all political parties, notably with his character ‘Colonel Blimp’, whose name has been incorporated into the English language. From 1950 he worked for the Daily Herald, and from 1953 with The (Manchester) Guardian. He produced volumes of collected cartoons, including Low and I (1923), A Cartoon History of the War (1941), and Low's Company (1952). He was knighted in 1962. |
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