Caricaturist, born in London, UK. He was educated at Charterhouse, and then studied medicine, but turned to art after publishing Etchings and Sketchings, By A Pen, Esq (1835). From 1841 he contributed hundreds of sketches of middle-class life and political cartoons to Punch, as well as to the Illustrated London News (1856) and Once a Week (185962). He illustrated several books, including Dickens's A Christmas Carol and the sporting novels of R S Surtees.
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John Leech (caricaturist) (1817–1864), English caricaturist. John Leech (politician) (born 1971), British Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament John Leech (mathematician) (1926–1992), British mathematician, discovere of the Leech Lattice| This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same human name. |
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