Willie Rushton
English comedian, cartoonist, satirist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William George Rushton was an English actor, cartoonist, comedian and satirist who co-founded the satirical magazine Private Eye. Early life Rushton was born 18 August 1937 at 3 Wilbraham Place, Chelsea, London, the only child of publisher John Atherton Rushton and his Welsh wife Veronica . He was educated at Shrewsbury School, where he was not academically successful but met his future Private Eye colleagues Richard Ingrams, Paul Foot and Christopher Booker. He also contributed to the satirical magazine The Wallopian, mocking school spirit, traditions and the masters. Later, he said he recalled little of his schooldays, except that "it was Blandings country. The sort of place you go to die, not to be educated".
