Searle, Ronald (1920-2011), an English artist, cartoonist, and designer, became popular as the creator of the weird young ladies of the fictional school of St. Trinian’s. He began creating St. Trinian’s drawings in 1941. Searle has been a cartoonist for several English periodicals as well as the Le Monde newspaper in France and The New York Times and The New Yorker in the United States. He has also designed several motion pictures and designed commemorative medals.
Ronald William Fordham Searle was born on March 3, 1920, in Cambridge and studied art there. He was a Japanese prisoner of war from 1942 to 1945, during World War II. The drawings he made while a prisoner established him as an artist. Searle died on Dec. 30, 2011.
