Albert Bernard Hollowood (3 June 1910 – 28 March 1981) was an English writer, cartoonist and economist. He was editor of the humorous weekly magazine ''
Punch
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* Punch (combat), a strike made using the hand closed into a fist
* Punch (drink), a wide assortment of drinks, non-alcoholic or alcoholic, generally containing fruit or fruit juice
Punch may also refer to:
Places
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'' from 1957 to 1968.
Life and career
Born on 3 June 1910 at
Burslem
Burslem ( ) is one of the six towns that along with Hanley, Tunstall, Fenton, Longton and Stoke-upon-Trent form part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. It is often referred to as the "mother town" of Stoke on Trent.
T ...
,
Stoke-on-Trent
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, Staffordshire, Bernard Hollowood was educated at
Hanley High School and St Paul's College,
Cheltenham
Cheltenham (), also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a spa town and borough on the edge of the Cotswolds in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Cheltenham became known as a health and holiday spa town resort, following the discovery of mineral s ...
. He read economics at
London University
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and graduated in 1936. He subsequently taught commerce, economics and geography at the City School of Commerce,
Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of . In 2019, the city had an estimated population of 256,375. It is the largest settlement ...
. He moved to
Loughborough College
Loughborough College is a general further education college located in Leicestershire, England which offers a range of courses including further education, higher education, apprenticeships and professional qualifications.
List of princip ...
in 1941, where he was Head of the Commerce Department.
He was a self-taught artist. He generally used a mapping pen and Indian ink on Whatman paper. Though not a good draughtsman, he sold his first drawings to ''
Chamber's Journal
''Chambers's Edinburgh Journal'' was a weekly 16-page magazine started by William Chambers in 1832. The first edition was dated 4 February 1832, and priced at one penny. Topics included history, religion, language, and science. William was soo ...
'', ''
Lilliput'' and ''
Men Only
''Men Only'' is a British magazine title that originated in 1935 as a pocket-sized men's magazine. It became a standard-sized Pin-up model, pin-up magazine in the 1950s and was relaunched in 1971 by Paul Raymond Publications as a soft-core porn ...
'' in 1942. Before long he was contributing drawings and articles to ''Punch''.
He left Loughborough College in 1944 and joined the staff of ''
The Economist
''The Economist'' is a British weekly newspaper printed in demitab format and published digitally. It focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, technology, and culture. Based in London, the newspaper is owned by The Econo ...
''. He stayed with the journal until 1945, becoming assistant editor. He was an expert on industrial
ceramic
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s, and was editor of ''
Pottery and Glass'' from 1944 to 1950. From 1946 to 1947 he was research officer at the
Council of Industrial Design
The Design Council, formerly the Council of Industrial Design, is a United Kingdom charity incorporated by Royal Charter. Its stated mission is "to champion great design that improves lives and makes things better".
It was instrumental in the prom ...
.
Hollowood was elected to the Punch Table in 1945. He was appointed the magazine's editor in 1957. He set very high standards, and would often require cartoonists to revise their submissions several times. Under him, ''Punchs circulation continued at around 115,000 copies, but he never became as well known as
Malcolm Muggeridge
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was an English journalist and satirist. His father, H. T. Muggeridge, was a socialist politician and one of the early Labour Party (UK), Labour Party Members of Parliament (for Romfo ...
, his immediate predecessor as editor. He left ''Punch'' in 1968.
From 1957 to 1960 he was a
pocket cartoonist for the ''
Sunday Times
''The Sunday Times'' is a British newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK, whi ...
''. He was also a regular contributor of articles or cartoons to many other publications, including ''
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ...
'', ''
Geographical Magazine
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'', ''
Socialist Commentary
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'', the ''
Surrey Advertiser
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'', ''
News Chronicle
The ''News Chronicle'' was a British daily newspaper. Formed by the merger of '' The Daily News'' and the ''Daily Chronicle'' in 1930, it ceased publication on 17 October 1960,''Liberal Democrat News'' 15 October 2010, accessed 15 October 2010 be ...
'', ''
The Cricketer
''The Cricketer'' is a monthly English cricket magazine providing writing and photography from international, county and club cricket.
The magazine was founded in 1921 by Sir Pelham Warner, an ex-England captain turned cricket writer. Warner e ...
'', ''
London Opinion
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'', ''
The New Yorker
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'', the ''
Evening Standard
The ''Evening Standard'', formerly ''The Standard'' (1827–1904), also known as the ''London Evening Standard'', is a local free daily newspaper in London, England, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format.
In October 2009, after be ...
'', and the ''
Daily and Sunday Telegraph''. As well as his own name, he also wrote and drew as 'Mammon'. A small selection of his cartoons is viewable online at the
British Cartoon Archive
The British Cartoon Archive (BCA) is a department of the University of Kent, at Canterbury in Kent, England, and holds the national collection of political and social-comment cartoons from British newspapers and magazines. Created in 1973, the ...
.
He was a member of the Court of Governors of the
London School of Economics
, mottoeng = To understand the causes of things
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £240.8 million (2021)
, budget = £391.1 millio ...
. He was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Arts
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(FRSA) in 1949. In 1962 he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Society for his lecture on humour.
Bernard Levin
Henry Bernard Levin (19 August 1928 – 7 August 2004) was an English journalist, author and broadcaster, described by ''The Times'' as "the most famous journalist of his day". The son of a poor Jewish family in London, he won a scholarship t ...
interviewed him for his TV series ''The Levin Interview'' in 1966.
The cricketer
He was a good enough
cricket
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er to play
Minor Counties cricket
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for
Staffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. It borders Cheshire to the northwest, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, Warwickshire to the southeast, the West Midlands Cou ...
between 1930 and 1947 as a batsman and occasional bowler, and he also captained Burslem who played in the
North Staffordshire League. His father and two brothers also played for Staffordshire.
One of his Staffordshire team-mates was the great bowler
Sydney Barnes
Sydney Francis Barnes (19 April 1873 – 26 December 1967) was an English professional cricketer who is regarded as one of the greatest bowlers of all time. He was right-handed and bowled at a pace that varied from medium to fast-medium with ...
, whose last match for Staffordshire was in 1935. Hollowood drew two cartoons of Barnes, which appear in his book ''Cricket on the Brain''. One depicts him leaping in the air as he appeals for a dismissal and with his index finger raised as though he himself is adjudicating on the appeal. It is entitled '
A.N. Other lbw Barnes.... 0'.
John Arlott
Leslie Thomas John Arlott, OBE (25 February 1914 – 14 December 1991) was an English journalist, author and cricket commentator for the BBC's ''Test Match Special''. He was also a poet and wine connoisseur. With his poetic phraseology, he bec ...
wrote in his review of the book for ''
Wisden
''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "bible of cricket" was first used in the 1930s by Alec Waugh in a ...
'': "...his two caricatures of S.F. Barnes would seem transcendent if they were not outweighed by his chapter on that great bowler which is a fine passage of cricket literature... this is a book of many and well-cut facets."
[''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 1971 edition, p1070.]
Hollowood died 28 March 1981 at
Shamley Green
Wonersh is a village and civil parish in the Waverley district of Surrey, England and Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Wonersh contains three Conservation Areas and spans an area three to six miles SSE of Guildford. In the o ...
, Surrey.
Bibliography
Author
*''The Things We See No.4 (Pottery and Glass)'', Penguin, 1947.
*''Britain Inside-Out'', Sidgwick & Jackson, 1948.
*''Scowle and Other Papers'', Penguin, 1948.
*''Poor Little Rich World'', Nelson, 1948.
*''The Hawksmoor Scandals'', George C. Harrap, 1949.
*''Cornish Engineers'',
Holman Brothers Ltd, 1951.
*''The Story of Morro Velho'',
St. John d'el Rey Mining Co, 1955.
*''Tory Story: Incorporating 'Living with Labour' and 'Liberal Outlook, Hammond in conjunction with Transworld, 1964.
*''Pont: An Account of the Life and Work of
Graham Laidler
Graham Laidler (4 July 1908 – 23 November 1940) was a British cartoonist, noted for his work in ''Punch'' magazine in the 1930s. He signed his name as "pont", short for a nickname, ''Pontifex Maximus''.
Life
Laidler was born on 4 July 1 ...
, The Great Punch Artist'', Collins, 1969, .
*''Cricket on the Brain'',
Eyre & Spottiswoode
Eyre & Spottiswoode was the London-based printing firm that was the King's Printer, and subsequently, a publisher prior to being incorporated; it once went by the name of Spottiswoode, Ballantyne & co. ltd. In April 1929, it was incorporated as E ...
, 1970, .
*''Tales of Tommy Barr'', with Jane Hollowood, Chatto, 1970, .
*''Funny Money'', Macdonald and Jane's, 1975, .
Illustrator
*''When I Was a Lad'', by
A. A. Thomson
Arthur Alexander Thomson, (7 April 1894 at Harrogate, Yorkshire – 2 June 1968 near Lord's in London) was an English writer best known for his books on cricket, for which he used the byline A. A. Thomson. He wrote nearly 60 books in all, inclu ...
, Epworth Press, 1964.
*''Organo Pleno'', by Gordon Reynolds, Novello, 1970, .
*''Full Swell'', by Gordon Reynolds, Novello, 1972, .
Editor
*''Pick of Punch, 1960'', Hutchinson.
*''The Women of Punch'', Arthur Barker, 1961.
*''Pick of Punch, 1962'', Arthur Barker.
*''Pick of Punch, 1963'', Hutchinson.
*''Pick of Punch, 1964'', Hutchinson.
*''Pick of Punch, 1965'', Hutchinson.
*''Pick of Punch, 1966'', Hutchinson.
*''Pick of Punch, 1967'', Hutchinson.
*''Pick of Punch, 1968'', Hutchinson.
Notes
References
Obituary in ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 1982 edition, p1203
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1910 births
1981 deaths
Cricket historians and writers
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English male journalists
English magazine editors
English satirists
Alumni of the University of London
People associated with the London School of Economics
Academics of Loughborough University
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20th-century British economists
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