biography
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Lancaster, Sir Osbert
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| male
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| lived:
| (1908–86)
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| biography:
| Cartoonist, writer, and theatrical designer, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford and the Slade School of Art, London. His lifelong passion was architecture, and he worked on Architectural Review (1932), writing and illustrating humorous articles. He began drawing pocket-sized front-page cartoons for the Daily Express in 1939, creating Lady Maudie Littlehampton and friends. He was knighted in 1975. His autobiography, All Done From Memory, was published in 1953. |
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