Francis Thomas Dean Carrington, (17 November 1843 – 9 October 1918) was a journalist, political cartoonist and illustrator in colonial Australia. Carrington was born in

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, England, and educated at the City of London School. He received his first lesson in drawing from

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, and went through the South Kensington course. He commenced drawing for Clarke & Co., Paternoster Row, a title-page to one of

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's novels being his first appearance in print. Carrington came to Australia in the 1860s, and after some experience on the diggings at Wood's Point, Jericho, Jordan, and Crooked River, he joined ''

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'' in 1866, succeeding

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and O. R. Campbell. With this paper he was connected for twenty-one years, drawing the principal cartoons and many smaller blocks all through the stirring times of the Darling excitement and the "Berry blight." Carrington left ''Punch'' when it was amalgamated with '' The Bulletin'', and joined the Melbourne ''Australasian''. Carrington died in

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, he had two daughters with his wife Dora, ''née'' Clausen.

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* 1843 births 1918 deaths 19th-century Australian artists Australian editorial cartoonists English emigrants to colonial Australia Cartoonists from Melbourne {{cartoonist-stub