Harold Furniss
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Harold Furniss was a caricaturist, journalist, illustrator, and collector of criminal literature.
Harold Furniss was born in Birkenhead, a town on the river Mersey opposite Liverpool, in 1856. In 1901 he was residing in North Wimbledon with a wife May Furniss, born in Newcastle, Surrey, aged 30, and an 8 year old son, Harold, born in London Forest Gate, Surrey, in 1893.
He was the editor of weekly periodical Famous Fights Past and Present Police Budget Edition.
Harold Furniss has sometimes been confused with Henry (Harry) Furniss, also a caricaturist, journalist and illustrator, but they were different people and were not relatives.
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