Biography

Ronald Searle was born on March 3, 1920 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Scrooge (1970), The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) and The Wildcats of St. Trinian's (1980). He was married to Monica Ilse Koenig and Kaye Webb. He died on December 30, 2011 in Draguignan, Var, France.

In 1939 he began serving as a sapper with the 287 Field Company until he was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore in 1942. He was held as a POW in Siam and Malaya until the war ended in 1945.

British artist and cartoonist. His ex-wife, Kaye Webb, was a book-talks broadcaster and authoress.

He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2004 Queen's New Years Honours list for his services to Art.

France

[in 2005, speaking about being a prisoner of war during World War II] If all your generation - everyone you knew - died when they were nineteen or twenty, you've got the biggest present in the world. You live from day to day thinking "My God, I should have died when I was nineteen and I'm eighty-five now". How many presents can one have in one's life? Every day is a present.