Rowel Friers

Born 1920; died 1998
Rowel Friers was apprenticed to the Belfast Lithographic firm of S.C. Smith & Co and while there attented classes at the Belfast College of Art between 1935 and 1942. he showed paintings, illustrations and caricatures at the CEMA Gallery in Belfast in 1953. For many years Friers drew cartoons for the Belfast Telegraph, and also contributed cartoons to the Irish Times and Punch. He was awarded the MBE in 1977.