Leonard Raven-Hill

Leonard Raven-Hill was born on 10 March 1867 in Bath. He studied at the City and Guilds of London Art School and later in Paris, exhibiting paintings at the Salon from 1886 and at the Royal Academy from 1889. He was the art editor of Pick-Me-Up and a founder of the Butterfly, as well as illustrating books for Rudyard Kipling and H.G. Wells.

In 1895, his first drawing appeared in Punch, for which he became a political cartoonist in 1910. Retiring in 1935, he died in 31 March 1942 at Ryde on the Isle of Wight.

From the guide to the Leonard Raven-Hill collection, 1916, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)