- Bernard Hollowood
Albert Bernard Hollowood (
June 3 ,1910 atBurslem ,Staffordshire –March 28 ,1981 atShamley Green ,Surrey ) was an English writer, cartoonist and economist. He was editor of the humorous weekly magazine Punch from 1957 to 1968.Life and career
Bernard Hollowood was educated at Hanley High School and St Paul's College,
Cheltenham . 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 andMen 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 industrialceramic s, and was editor ofPottery and Glass from 1944 to 1950. From 1946 to 1947 he was Research Officer at theCouncil 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 theSunday Times . He was also a regular contributor of articles or cartoons to many other publications, includingThe Times ,Geographical Magazine ,Socialist Commentary , theSurrey Advertiser ,News Chronicle ,The Cricketer ,London Opinion ,The New Yorker , theEvening 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 theRoyal 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.The cricketer
He was a good enough
cricket 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'. ["Cricket on the Brain", p69.]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." ["Wisden Cricketers' Almanack", 1971 edition, p1070.]Bibliography
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 ofGraham Laidler , 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.Notes
References
* [http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228582.html Obituary in "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1982 edition", p1203]
* [http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/106/106477/106477.html CricketArchive]
* [http://opal.kent.ac.uk/cartoonx-cgi/artist.py?id=77 Brief biography]
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