Bernard Hollowood
Encyclopedia
Albert Bernard Hollowood (3 June 1910 at Burslem
, Staffordshire
– 28 March 1981 at Shamley Green
, Surrey
) was an English
writer, cartoonist and economist. He was editor of the humorous weekly magazine Punch
from 1957 to 1968.
. He read economics at London University
and graduated in 1936. He subsequently taught commerce, economics and geography at the City School of Commerce, Stoke-on-Trent
. He moved to Loughborough College
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 Chambers Journal, Lilliput
and Men Only
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
. He stayed with the journal until 1945, becoming Assistant Editor. He was an expert on industrial ceramic
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.
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, Punch's circulation continued at around 115,000 copies, but he never became as well-known as Malcolm Muggeridge
, his immediate predecessor as editor. He left Punch in 1968.
From 1957 to 1960 he was a pocket cartoonist for the Sunday Times. He was also a regular contributor of articles or cartoons to many other publications, including The Times
, Geographical Magazine
, Socialist Commentary, the Surrey Advertiser
, News Chronicle
, The Cricketer
, London Opinion, The New Yorker
, the Evening Standard
, and the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. As well as his own name, he also wrote and drew as 'Mammon'.
He was a member of the Court of Governors of the London School of Economics
. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
(FRSA) in 1949. In 1962 he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Society for his lecture on humour. Bernard Levin
interviewed him for his TV series The Levin Interview in 1966.
er to play Minor Counties cricket
for Staffordshire
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
, 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
wrote in his review of the book for Wisden
: ...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.
Burslem
The town of Burslem, known as the Mother Town, is one of the six towns that amalgamated to form the current city of Stoke-on-Trent, in the ceremonial county of Staffordshire, in the Midlands of England.-Topography:...
, Staffordshire
Staffordshire
Staffordshire is a landlocked county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. Part of the National Forest lies within its borders...
– 28 March 1981 at Shamley Green
Shamley Green
Shamley Green is a small village in the county of Surrey, England. Neighbouring villages include Wonersh, Chilworth, Farncombe and Bramley. Nearby railway stations include Chilworth railway station and Farncombe railway station . Although Shalford Station is in fact closer as the route to...
, Surrey
Surrey
Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...
) was an English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
writer, cartoonist and economist. He was editor of the humorous weekly magazine Punch
Punch (magazine)
Punch, or the London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 50s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration...
from 1957 to 1968.
Life and career
Bernard Hollowood was educated at Hanley High School and St Paul's College, CheltenhamCheltenham
Cheltenham , also known as Cheltenham Spa, is a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, on the edge of the Cotswolds in the South-West region of England. It is the home of the flagship race of British steeplechase horse racing, the Gold Cup, the main event of the Cheltenham Festival held...
. He read economics at London University
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
and graduated in 1936. He subsequently taught commerce, economics and geography at the City School of Commerce, Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent , also called The Potteries is a city in Staffordshire, England, which forms a linear conurbation almost 12 miles long, with an area of . Together with the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme Stoke forms The Potteries Urban Area...
. He moved to Loughborough College
Loughborough University
Loughborough University is a research based campus university located in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, in the East Midlands of England...
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 Chambers Journal, Lilliput
Lilliput (magazine)
Lilliput was a small-format British monthly magazine of humour, short stories, photographs and the arts, founded in 1937 by the photojournalist Stefan Lorant. The first issue came out in July and it was sold shortly after to Edward Hulton, when editorship was taken over by Tom Hopkinson in 1940....
and Men Only
Men Only
Men Only is a British soft-core pornographic magazine published by Paul Raymond since 1971. However, the title goes back to 1935 when it was founded by C. Arthur Pearson Ltd as a pocket magazine . It set out its editorial stall in the first issue:'We don't want women readers. We won't have women...
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
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
. He stayed with the journal until 1945, becoming Assistant Editor. He was an expert on industrial ceramic
Ceramic
A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid prepared by the action of heat and subsequent cooling. Ceramic materials may have a crystalline or partly crystalline structure, or may be amorphous...
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.
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, Punch's circulation continued at around 115,000 copies, but he never became as well-known as Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge was an English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist. During World War II, he was a soldier and a spy...
, his immediate predecessor as editor. He left Punch in 1968.
From 1957 to 1960 he was a pocket cartoonist for the Sunday Times. He was also a regular contributor of articles or cartoons to many other publications, including The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
, Geographical Magazine
Geographical Magazine
Geographical is the magazine of the Royal Geographical Society , and was founded by Michael Huxley in 1935....
, Socialist Commentary, the Surrey Advertiser
Surrey Advertiser
The Surrey Advertiser is a newspaper for Surrey, which was established in 1864. Guardian Media Group sold the paper to current owner Trinity Mirror in 2010...
, News Chronicle
News Chronicle
The News Chronicle was a British daily newspaper. It ceased publication on 17 October 1960, being absorbed into the Daily Mail. Its offices were in Bouverie Street, off Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 8DP, England.-Daily Chronicle:...
, The Cricketer
The Cricketer
The Cricketer was an English cricket magazine published between 1921 and 2003 when it was merged with Wisden Cricket Monthly and relaunched as The Wisden Cricketer....
, London Opinion, The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, the Evening Standard
Evening Standard
The Evening Standard, now styled the London Evening Standard, is a free local daily newspaper, published Monday–Friday in tabloid format in London. It is the dominant regional evening paper for London and the surrounding area, with coverage of national and international news and City of London...
, and the Daily and Sunday Telegraph. As well as his own name, he also wrote and drew as 'Mammon'.
He was a member of the Court of Governors of the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Royal Society of Arts
The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce is a British multi-disciplinary institution, based in London. The name Royal Society of Arts is frequently used for brevity...
(FRSA) in 1949. In 1962 he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Society for his lecture on humour. Bernard Levin
Bernard Levin
Henry Bernard Levin CBE 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 to the independent school Christ's Hospital and went on to the London School of Economics,...
interviewed him for his TV series The Levin Interview in 1966.
The cricketer
He was a good enough cricketCricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er to play Minor Counties cricket
Minor counties of English cricket
The Minor Counties are the cricketing counties of England and Wales that are not afforded first-class status. The game is administered by the Minor Counties Cricket Association which comes under the England and Wales Cricket Board...
for Staffordshire
Staffordshire County Cricket Club
Staffordshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Staffordshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and the MCCA Knockout Trophy...
between 1930 and 1947 as a batsman and occasional bowler, and he also captained Burslem who played in the North Staffordshire League
North Staffordshire and South Cheshire League
The North Staffordshire and South Cheshire League is the top level of competition for recreational club cricket in the North Staffordshire and South Cheshire area of England. Since 2001 it has been a designated ECB Premier League.-Winners:-External links:...
. His father and two brothers also played for Staffordshire.
One of his Staffordshire team-mates was the great bowler Sydney Barnes
Sydney Barnes
Sydney Francis Barnes was an English professional cricketer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest bowlers in the sport's history...
, 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
John Arlott
Leslie Thomas John Arlott OBE was an English journalist, author and cricket commentator for the BBC's Test Match Special. He was also a poet, wine connoisseur and former police officer in Hampshire...
wrote in his review of the book for Wisden
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom...
: ...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.
Author
- The Things We See No.4 (Pottery and Glass), Penguin, 1947.
- Britain Inside-Out, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1948.
- Scowle and Other Papers, Penguin, 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 LaidlerGraham LaidlerGraham Laidler was born on 4 July 1908 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England at 6 Osborne Avenue, Jesmond. His father died when Laidler was 13 and the family eventually moved south, finally settling in Jordans, Buckinghamshire...
, The Great Punch Artist, Collins, 1969, ISBN 000211674X. - Cricket on the Brain, Eyre & Spttiswoode, 1970, ISBN 0413280101.
- Tales of Tommy Barr, with Jane Hollowood, Chatto, 1970, ISBN 978-0701103309.
- Funny Money, Macdonald and Jane's, 1975, ISBN 0356083284.
- Poor Little Rich World, Nelson, year of publication unknown.
Illustrator
- When I Was a Lad, by A.A. Thomson, Epworth Press, 1964.
- Organo Pleno, by Gordon Reynolds, Novello, 1970, ISBN 085360004X.
- Full Swell, by Gordon Reynolds, Novello, 1972, ISBN 0853600392.
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.