Charles G. Bennett

English illustrator of the Victorian era, a pioneer in the technique of comic illustration, and author of children's books. He was the eldest of three children in a family of shoemakers. Nothing is known of Charles's childhood, but he was probably educated at St. Clement Dane's School in London. Growing up he became part of London's bohemia and one of the founders of the Savage Club, each member of which was a "Man of Literature or Art". Married at the age of twenty, he had six children.