Comic artist and illustrator. Born in Finsbury Park. He started his career as a book illustrator, and during WW1 began drawing cartoons of unlikely secret weapons. His later works of wonderfully complicated devices, earned his name a place in the dictionary.
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William Heath Robinson
William Heath Robinson, 1872 - 1944, artist, illustrator and cartoonist known...
W. Heath Robinson, 1872 - 1944, Illustrator and comic artist, lived here, 191...
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