Frank Whitford - Born Francis Peter Whitford in Bishopstoke, Hampshire, on 11 August 1941, the son of Peter Whitford and his wife Katherine Ellen (nee Rowe). He was educated at Peter Symonds School in Winchester and attended Wadham College, Oxford, graduating in 1963 with a third class honours in English language and literature because he preferred drawing to studying. A self taught artist, he designed posters and worked as an actor in student films and illustrator for student magazines.He subsequently studied German art at the Courtauld Institute, earning an academic diploma in the history of art in 1965. He worked as a cartoonist and illustrator on the Sunday Mirror in 1965 66 before switching to drawing pocket cartoons for the Evening Standard in 1966 67 Born Francis Peter Whitford in Bishopstoke, Hamps...
