Sir Osbert Lancaster CBE (4 August 1908 – 27 July 1986) was an English cartoonist, architectural historian, stage designer and author. He was known for...
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aerial photographs in his field Osbert Lancaster (1908−1986), English cartoonist, author, art critic and stage designer Osbert Mackie (1869−1927), English...
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Osbert Lancaster's Drayneflete Revealed (1949, published in the US as There'll Always be a Drayneflete 1950), is an illustrated book on architectural style...
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Hart-Davis Barbara Hepworth Auberon Herbert John Jolliffe David Jones Osbert Lancaster F. R. Leavis Cecil Day-Lewis Compton Mackenzie George Malcolm Max Mallowan...
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William Osbert Lancaster (13 March 1938 – 19 May 2022) was a British social anthropologist who specialised in the study of the Arab world, particularly...
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appears as a single-panel single-column drawing. It was introduced by Osbert Lancaster in 1939 at the Daily Express. A 2005 obituary by The Guardian of its...
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Anne Scott-James (redirect from Anne Scott-James, Lady Lancaster)
stepson and stepdaughter by Sir Osbert Lancaster. In the Mink (1952) (novel) Down to Earth (with Sir Osbert Lancaster) (1971) Sissinghurst: The Making...
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Among these, names like Rebecca West, Osbert Lancaster or Sir Charles Eliot's are worth to be mentioned. Lancaster, who visited Greece in 1947, stated:...
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known as Maudie, is a cartoon character created by Osbert Lancaster. From the late 1940s until Lancaster’s retirement in 1981 Maudie was the leading character...
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(1889–1964), First Prime Minister of India, lived there 1910–12 79 – Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986), cartoonist, born there 86 – Sir Laurence Olivier (1907–1989)...
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Harold Macmillan, Randolph Churchill, Duncan Sandys and the cartoonist Osbert Lancaster, who featured the armchair and stuffed fish in the members lounge in...
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Albery acquired the rights to stage it in the West End, and engaged Osbert Lancaster as designer and Alfred Rodrigues as director. The production opened...
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book includes photographs by László Moholy-Nagy and illustrations by Osbert Lancaster and Edward Bradley, the latter reproduced from the Victorian novel...
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measure of comic relief was provided by wartime cartoons, especially by Osbert Lancaster for the Daily Express, with captions read by actors. The presenters...
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Ellic Howe, and Delmer's college friend, the cartoonist Osbert Lancaster. Some of Lancaster's Daily Express cartoons were reprinted into booklets aimed...
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play Fisbo, or the Looking Glass Loaned (1934) verse satire aimed at Osbert Lancaster A Spanish Triptych (1936) poems Such was My Singing (1942) selected...
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John of Gaunt (redirect from Duke of Lancaster John of Gaunt)
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (6 March 1340 – 3 February 1399) was an English royal prince, military leader, and statesman. He was the fourth son (third...
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Pont Street Dutch is a term coined by Osbert Lancaster to describe an architectural style typified by the large red brick gabled houses built in the 1880s...
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British decorating firm Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986), English cartoonist, author, art critic and stage designer Penny Lancaster (born 1971), English model...
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from 1930 to 1934. The editorial board included Pevsner, Hugh Casson, Osbert Lancaster and James Maude Richards. The design of the review was innovative,...
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architectural historian Osbert Lancaster. "Sir William Lancaster". plaquesoflondon.co.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2014. "Sir W. J. Lancaster", The Times, 2 March...
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Tudor, was a term coined by the architectural historian and cartoonist Osbert Lancaster for a style of house that became popular in Britain in the first half...
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Variegated is a term coined by the cartoonist and architectural historian Osbert Lancaster in his 1938 book Pillar to Post. It represents the ribbon development...
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Shepard. At Oxford he was also a contemporary and friend of MacNeice and Osbert Lancaster. Following in his father's footsteps, he became an illustrator and...
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and his last book, An Essay on Malta (1972), with illustrations by Osbert Lancaster. Three of his plays were put on at the Royal Court theatre: Cards of...
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Catherine of Lancaster (Castilian: Catalina; 31 March 1373 – 2 June 1418) was Queen of Castile by marriage to King Henry III of Castile. She governed...
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intellectual elite. Its name was coined by the English cartoonist and author Osbert Lancaster, as Curzon Street in Mayfair was an address popular with London high...
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(Hamish Hamilton, 1951); travels through post-war Italy, illustrated by Osbert Lancaster. The Traitors: The Double Life of Fuchs, Pontecorvo, and Nunn May (Hamish...
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which has no satisfactory explanation in the story of St. Lawrence. Osbert Lancaster, who identified the figure as Saint Lawrence, shown here with the flaming...
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cauldron, there'd be a pinch of P. G. Wodehouse, a soupçon of Sir Osbert Lancaster and a cup of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. One can be firm of purpose and...
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