"Poy," the famous political cartoonist of the London "Daily Mail," has retired after 34 years' work, 25 of which he passed in London diverting the country with his clever pencil which created all sorts of characters afterwards to become commonplace symbols of national expression. The good wishes of the British newspaper reading public will be accompanied by those of Shanghai friends for "Poy" is Mr. Perey Hutton Fearon, brother of Mr, R. I. Fearon, and was born, in Shanghai. He received his art training in New York and later under the late Sir Hubert Herkomer at Bushey, Hertfordshire, and early in his career developed a distinctive style which rapidly gained him fame. His characters, John Citizen, Dilly and Dally, the formidable Dora, Dux and Drakes and his war-time creation Cuthbert, which finds a place in the [Oxford English dictionary, are now national institutions although his first cartoon appeared in the. humorous weekly "July" 40 years ago. He worked for nine years in Manchester and then went to London and during his 34 unbroken years of daily work-he estimates he produced 10,000 cartoons, a record for a political cartoonist. His energy and productiveness were so great and consistent that during the war when he served as a member.of the National Guard he managed to carry on with a daily cartoon, and enrich newspaper life with his witty and pungent observations on national and international affairs.
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