William Kerridge Haselden, 1872-1953

• Biography

  Attribute	Value
  Biography	Born in Seville, Spain, son of an English civil engineer, William Haselden was a self-taught artist. He left school at 16 and worked for 13 years as an underwriter at Lloyd's, whilst submitting cartoons to Tatler, The Soverign and St James's Gazette. From 1904 to 1940 he worked as Editorial Cartoonist for the Daily Mirror. He regularly contributed to Punch, and is regarded as the father of the British strip cartoon. Although offered a knighthood, by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, he turned it down.
  Employment	Designed posters for the Underground Group, 1920
  Role	Artist,