Political, sporting and theatre cartoonist. Was educated at Grangemouth High School between 1922-1924. Was taught art there by James W Davie. Family emigrated to South Africa in 1926 where he became an apprentice lithographic artist in the printing trade. In 1927 he started having his cartoons published in the Natal Advertiser. He returned to Britain for the early part of the 1930s. In 1936 he joined the Durban Daily News where he was to remain for the rest of his career. He used his cartoons to attack the Nationalist Party in South Africa and also Hitler and Mussolini during the second world war.He also documented the fall of apartheid. Retired in 1995.