(Gavin) Graham Laidler (1908-1940) was born on 4 July 1908 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England at 6 Osborne Road, Jesmond. His father died when Laidler was 13 and the family moved south, eventually settling in Jordans, Buckinghamshire. Laidler had always intended becoming a cartoonist, but as a result of family pressure he enrolled at the London School of Architecture in 1926. After a serious kidney ailment, he concentrated on his cartoons. Wikipedia
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