The daughter of milkman Ernest Redvers Briggs (1900–1971) and housewife Ethel Bowyer (1895–1971), who wed in 1930, Briggs was born on January 18, 1934, in Wimbledon, Surrey (now London).
He was evacuated to Dorset during the Second World War and then later returned to London. Briggs attended Rutlish School, which was a grammar school at the time.
He began drawing cartoons at a young age and, despite his father’s efforts to talk him out of it, went on to study painting at Wimbledon School of Art from 1949 to 1953 and typography at Central School of Art.
Raymond Briggs books
Ruth Manning-Sanders’ retelling of Peter and the Piskies: Cornish Folk and Fairy Tales (1958), with Briggs’ illustrations
Author Arthur Calder-1959 Marshall’s book The Fair to Middling. London’s Rupert Hart-Davis. A collection of nursery rhymes from 1962 is called Ring-a-ring o’ Roses.
Fee Fi Fo Fum, a nursery rhyme picture book, was published in 1964.
Mother Goose, recipient of the Kate Greenaway Medal, released The Mother Goose
Who is Raymond Briggs?
The daughter of milkman Ernest Redvers Briggs (1900–1971) and housewife Ethel Bowyer (1895–1971), who wed in 1930, Briggs was born on January 18, 1934, in Wimbledon, Surrey (now London).
He was evacuated to Dorset during the Second World War and then later returned to London.
Briggs attended Rutlish School, which was a grammar school at the time.
He began drawing cartoons at a young age and, despite his father’s efforts to talk him out of it, went on to study painting at Wimbledon School of Art from 1949 to 1953 and typography at Central School of Art.
He served as a conscript for the National Service in the Royal Corps of Signals at Catterick from 1953 to 1955, where he was promoted to draughtsman.