The first-ever political cartoonist on a British daily newspaper

The first-ever political cartoonist on a British daily newspaper

This year is the centenary of Sir Francis Carruthers Gould’s death. One of Britain’s most successful and respected political cartoonists, he was completely self-taught and enormously talented. He illustrated books and magazines, and ran his own monthly publication. He made no secret of being a Liberal (the old-fashioned kind) but did not attack those whose politics he satirized viciously, whatever their allegiance, pleading “I etch with vinegar,…