Francis
Carruthers Gould was born in Barnstable in 1844. In 1888 he became
the first political cartoonist employed by a daily newspaper, when
he was recruited by the Pall Mall Budget. Gould was was employed
as the cartoonist on the Westminster Gazette where he pioneered
what became known as "picture politics". Gould also worked
for the Picture Politics magazine. Francis Carruthers Gould
died in 1925.
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