Ambrose Dyson often known as "Amby" or "Amb Dyson" was an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n illustrator and political cartoonist, born in Melbourne

Melbourne

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, the son of Ambrose Dyson

Ambrose Dyson

Ambrose Dyson , often known as Amb Dyson was an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist, born at Alfredton, near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, the son of George Dyson, then a hawker and later a mining engineer, and his wife Jane, née Mayall. He was educated at state schools at Ballarat and...

 and Mabel Fraser, whom he married shortly before he died in Kew Asylum

Kew Asylum

Kew Lunatic Asylum is a decommissioned psychiatric hospital located between Princess Street and Yarra Boulevard in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Operational from 1871 to 1988, Kew was one of the largest asylums ever built in Australia. Later known as Willsmere, the complex of buildings...

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He was a student at Yarra Park State School until 1922, when he started working as a labourer, which lasted 14 years, when he took some lessons and embarked on a full-time artistic career.

He was the first sports cartoonist for the Melbourne Herald, although Alan McCullough (op. cit.) asserts it was his father, Ambrose Dyson

Ambrose Dyson

Ambrose Dyson , often known as Amb Dyson was an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist, born at Alfredton, near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, the son of George Dyson, then a hawker and later a mining engineer, and his wife Jane, née Mayall. He was educated at state schools at Ballarat and...

 (1876–1913). Both, confusingly, published under the name "Amb Dyson".

In 1944 he was working as a cartoonist for the army newspaper SALT (for Sea, Air, Land Transport). It was there he became a friend and associate of Frank Hardy

Frank Hardy

Francis Joseph Hardy, or Frank, was an Australian left-wing novelist and writer best known for his controversial novel Power Without Glory. He also was a political activist bringing the plight of Aboriginal Australians to international attention with the publication of his book, The Unlucky...

, sharing Hardy's left-wing views and joining the Communist Party of Australia

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The Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991; it was succeeded by the Socialist Party of Australia, which then renamed itself, becoming the current Communist Party of Australia. The CPA achieved its greatest political strength in the 1940s and faced an attempted...

. He contributed drawings to Hardy's masterpiece Power Without Glory

Power Without Glory

Power Without Glory is a 1950 novel written by Australian writer Frank Hardy. It was later adapted into a mini-series by the Australian Broadcasting Commission .- Publication :...

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Sources

• McCullough, Alan Encyclopedia of Australian Art Hutchinson of London 1968
• A Dyson Bibliography