My hero / Ronald Searle by Quentin Blake

 

Ronald Searle

Partly to escape his celebrity, Searle moved to the south of France, where he was pictured here at home in 2006.

Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/Guardian

My hero: Ronald Searle by Quentin Blake

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'He is a striking representative of a great British tradition, of something we do well, and where he stands with his own heroes, George Cruikshank and Thomas Rowlandson'

Quentin Blake

Fri 6 Jan 2012 22.55 GMT

Obituaries / Ronald Searle

Monica was Searle's second wife, to whom he remained devoted. She died in July 2011.

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Ronald Searle obituary

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Artist and cartoonist best known for St Trinian's and Molesworth

Michael McNay 

Tuesday 3 January 2012

The artist Ronald Searle, who has died aged 91, will always be associated with St Trinian's, the anarchic girls' boarding school he created in pen and ink in the 1940s, which inspired a long-running series of films. Searle and St Trinian's go together like Petruchio and Kate; except that Searle created his own shrews and lived with their reputation for the rest of his life.