Bevis Hillier

Fine artist, but a dirty old man

I have always been sceptical of those passages in the ‘Ancestry’ chapters of biographies that run something like this: <em>Through his veins coursed the rebellious blood of the Vavasours, blended with a more temperate strain from the Mudge family of Basingstoke.</em>

  • Linley Sambourne: Illustrator and Punch Cartoonist

    Leonee Ormond

    Paul Holberton, pp. 312

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