Lancaster, Sir Osbert

Lancaster, Sir Osbert

▪ English cartoonist and author
born Aug. 4, 1908, London, Eng.
died July 27, 1986, London
 English cartoonist, stage designer, and writer, best-known for his suave cartoons that appeared from 1939 in the Daily Express (London), which gently satirized the English upper class, especially its response to social change. He was also noted for his architectural writings and personal memoirs.

      Lancaster took his B.A. degree at Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1930. After an unsuccessful attempt at studying for the bar, he entered the Slade School of Art, University of London, receiving certificates in painting and stage design. Later he became a regular contributor to Architectural Review, illustrating his column with line drawings. His first book was a collection of these drawings: Progress at Pelvis Bay (1936), a biting architectural profile of an English seaside village from its most remote past to its “planned” future. His subsequent books were Pillar to Post, a witty dissection of English architectural history (1938), and Homes, Sweet Homes (1939), in a similar vein and concerned with English interior decoration. These works were later combined, with additional material on American architecture and design, in Here, of All Places (1958).

      In 1951 Lancaster entered the field of stage design and for the next 20 years successfully designed sets and costumes for numerous theatrical, ballet, and opera productions. He published two volumes of memoirs: All Done from Memory (1953) and With an Eye to the Future (1967). Lancaster's subsequent publications included Sailing to Byzantium: An Architectural Companion (1969); Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (1973); The Pleasure Garden: An Illustrated History of British Gardening (1977); and Scene Changes (1978). In 1982 he published The Life and Times of Maudie Littlehampton, an assortment of vintage cartoons tracing the development of his classic character Maudie Littlehampton. He was knighted in 1975. The Essential Osbert Lancaster: An Anthology in Brush and Pen was published in 1988.

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