George Morrow (5 September 1869 – 18 January 1955) was a cartoonist and book illustrator. Early life and education George Morrow was born in Belfast. He was the son of George Morrow, a painter and decorator from Clifton Street in west Belfast, and his wife Catherine. George was the fifth of 8 children, with five of his siblings, Albert, Jack, George, Edwin and Norman also working as artists. In April 1905 Morrow married a Dublin nurse, Mary Matilda McCracken at Ballyclare Presbyterian Church. Morrow attended the Belfast Government School of Art, graduating in 1891. Life and works Morrow contributed one work to an exhibition with the Belfast Rambler's Sketching Club in 1888 and four paintings to the Belfast Art Society exhibition in 1893. From the mid to late 1890s he lived at 324 King's Road in Chelsea, where he made the acquaintance of Mark Twain. In 1896 Morrow showed a watercolour from Rudyard Kipling's book Strange Ride of Morrowby Jukes, in the Empire exhibition at the Earl's Court. In the same year he was published in Pick-Me-Up and Mary Russell Mitford's Country Stories. George and his brother Albert were instrumental in the formation of the Ulster Arts Club in 1902. Both showed with three other brothers in the club's first exhibition alongside John Lavery, Hans Iten and FW Hull, at Fisherwick Place Belfast in November 1903. George Morrow exhibited three oil paintings, Donaghadee, Flaxpool, and The Geraldine's Daughter. Morrow exhibited one oil painting entitled The Saint of the Island at the Royal Academy of Arts summer exhibition of 1904. In 1905 he contributed to the Ulster Literary Theatre's short-lived Ulad magazine and in the following year was published in the first edition of the equally short-lived Shanachie. In 1906 he sat on the committee of the first Oireachtas Art Exhibition with Jack Butler Yeats and Sarah Purser, and in the following year he showed two works at the Oireachtas exhibition of 1907. Morrow contributed a picture showing a complacent John Bull squatting in the home of peasants, to Bulmer Hobson's separatist magazine The Republic in 1906, which was later distributed as a postcard for the Dungannon Clubs. More significantly the year 1906 marked the beginning of Morrow's long association with Punch. In 50 years Morrow was to contribute 2,704 cartoons to the publication, of which 22 were full-page political cartoons. He joined the staff of the magazine in 1924 and