John Henry Gilmour (1892 - 1951, also known as Jack Gilmour, Jno Gee, J.H. Gee and Jay Gee) was a New Zealand cartoonist. He was born in

Christchurch Christchurch ( ; mi, Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region. Christchurch lies on the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula on Pegasus Bay. The Avon River / ...

and drew for the ''Canterbury Times'' (succeeding David Low), the ''

Christchurch Star ''The Star'' is a newspaper published in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was published daily from 1868 to 1991. It became the ''Christchurch Star-Sun'' in June 1935 after merging with a rival newspaper, ''The Sun'', and at the time it ceased dai ...

,'' the ''New Zealand Free Lance'' and the ''

New Zealand Truth ''New Zealand Truth'' was a tabloid newspaper published weekly in New Zealand from 1905 to 2013. History ''New Zealand Truth'' was founded in 1905 by Australian John Norton in Wellington, as a New Zealand edition of his Sydney ''Truth'', aim ...

.'' He lived in England for several years from 1932, where he drew for 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 ...

''. During this time he also worked as a cartoonist for the

British Union of Fascists The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a British fascist political party formed in 1932 by Oswald Mosley. Mosley changed its name to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists in 1936 and, in 1937, to the British Union. In 1939, fo ...

and his work appeared in the movement's newspapers ''Fascist Week'' and ''

The Blackshirt ''The Blackshirt'' was the official newspaper of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF) from 1933 until 1936. After the launch of ''Action Action may refer to: * Action (narrative), a literary mode * Action fiction, a type of genre fic ...

'' until 1935. He returned to New Zealand in the late 1930s, again working for ''Truth'' and the ''Star''. Ian F Grant has referred to Gilmour as a 'political chameleon': Gilmour 'drew cartoons for the ''Free Lance'' depicting the Labour Party as Bolsheviks. He went on to become the cartoonist for the Labour Party weekly the ''New Zealand Worker''.'

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Search for work by John Gilmour on DigitalNZ
New Zealand editorial cartoonists 1892 births 1951 deaths People from Christchurch {{NewZealand-artist-stub