1. William Kerridge Haselden was an English cartoonist and caricaturist.
10 Facts About William Haselden
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William Haselden's parents were both English but met in Seville, Spain, where his father was director of the Seville Gasworks.
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William Haselden's father died during a family holiday to England in 1874, and the remaining family stayed in England, settling in Hampstead.
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William Haselden worked unhappily as an underwriter at Lloyd's in London for thirteen years before some of his sketches were accepted for the periodical The Sovereign.
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At the Daily Mirror, William Haselden originally started with political cartoons, but soon settled into his trademark style of gentle, conservative social commentary reflecting on middle-class fashions and manners.
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William Haselden often lampooned social and technological trends of the time by making bold predictions about how the future would transpire, including fashion, camera phones and feminism.
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From 1906, William Haselden contributed to Punch as a theatrical caricaturist, retiring in 1936 due to increasing deafness.
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William Haselden's work drew praise from celebrities including Margot Asquith, Stanley Baldwin, Paul Nash, Walter Sickert.
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William Haselden spent most of his working life resident in London, but from the mid-1930s spent more time at the family's holiday home in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, to which he eventually retired.
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William Haselden died of natural causes on Christmas Day, 1953.