Ronald William Fordham Searle OBE.RDI, English artist and satirical and comic cartoonist in drawing and lithography.
He was born in Cambridge and trained at the Cambridge College of Art and Technology at the age of 15 for two years. Illustrated many books and is especially known for his St. Trinian’s School series. He did a considerable amount of designing for the cinema and had many one-man exhibitions throughout the World. He died in Draguignan Var, Provence France aged 91.