During World War II he joined the press censorship bureau and was stationed in Greece 1944–6 as part of the Foreign Office press attaché. He was appointed cartoonist to the Daily Express in 1939, and over the next forty years drew approximately 10,000 pocket cartoons for the paper. He worked with his friend John Betjeman as assistant editor at the Architectural Review and in 1936 released his first book, Progress at Pelvis Bay, satirizing architecture and social life. Lancaster was born in London and studied at Oxford University, where he contributed cartoons to the university magazine Cherwell, and at the Slade School of Art. He went on to create designs for Ninette de Valois’ Coppélia (1954), Cranko’s Pineapple Poll (1959 originally created in 1951 for Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet) and Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée (1960). English cartoonist and designer Osbert Lancaster (1908–86) made his Royal Ballet debut in 1952, creating set and costume designs for John Cranko’s Bonne-Bouche for the then Sadler’s Wells Ballet.
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