13 Facts About Nicholas Garland

Nicholas Withycombe Garland OBE was born on 1 September 1935 and is a British political cartoonist.

Nicholas Garland's father was a physician and his mother a sculptor.

Nicholas Garland was the second of six children: he had three brothers and two sisters and two half-sisters.

On leaving school, Garland joined the New Zealand Players, the only professional theatre company in New Zealand at the time, under the directorship of Richard Campion.

Nicholas Garland directed the first two cabarets at Peter Cook's Establishment Club and spent a year at the BBC working in the Tonight department.

In 1964, Nicholas Garland left the theatre to devote himself to a career as a cartoonist.

Nicholas Garland rejoined The Daily Telegraph from 1990 until 2011.

Nicholas Garland was political cartoonist on the New Statesman during the 1970s and worked for The Spectator for many years.

Nicholas Garland undertook a series of drawings, woodcuts and paintings, published in the book Drawing the Games.

Nicholas Garland's work is represented in the British Museum, the Museum of London, and the Ashmolean Museum.

Nicholas Garland was awarded the OBE in the 1998 New Year Honours.

Nicholas Garland's son, Tim, whose mother was the painter Margaret Evans, was born in 1957.

In 1964, Nicholas Garland married Harriet Crittall: their daughter, Emily was born in 1966, and the marriage was dissolved in 1968.