Osbert Lancaster
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Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908 - 1986) was an author, diplomat and art critic. He was also a cartoonist, humorist and designer.
Educated at Charterhouse and Lincoln College, Oxford, he was best known to the public at large for his cartoons published in the Daily Express, in which he lampooned the upper classes and, during the war years, provided comic relief from the privations of rationing and bombing raids. He pioneered the Pocket Cartoon, a topical single panel appearing on the front page, and since imitated in several British newspapers.
Yet his belonging to the upper classes which he was supposed to mock was unambiguous. He was the co-author of 'Noblesse oblige' (London, Hamish Hamilton, 1973) a volume edited by Nancy Mitford so it came as no surprise that later in life he himself was knighted.
Selected publications
- Drayneflete Revealed (1949) - a parody of architectural books.
- [Here of all places]
- Façades and Faces (London, John Murray, 1950)
- Sailing to Byzantium: an architectural companion (London, John Murray, 1969)
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