Gordon Brewster

William Gordon Brewster (26 September 1889 – 16 June 1946) was an Irish illustrator and editorial cartoonist.

He was born at 15 D'Olier Street, Dublin, the son of William Theodore Brewster, secretary, and Susan McConnell.[1]

He was educated at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. His father was general manager of the Irish Independent newspaper, and Gordon joined the paper as a staff artist in 1906. He drew cartoons mainly on money matters for the daily paper, and had a regular cartoon called "This, That and the Other" for the Sunday Independent.

Brewster was one of the first artists to produce cover artwork for the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland. Three years after his death he was remembered as "the first good artist to serve the Society" after the "amateurish" contributions of earlier artists.[2] His covers for the Society include The Saddest Death of All by Rev. J. J. Gaffney, A Dreadful Holocaust by M. J. O'Mullane and The Alcoholic Road by Henry Morris.[3]

Gordon Brewster died at Howth on 16 June 1946, aged 56, from cardiac failure and atheroma of the coronary artery.[4]

He is buried alongside his parents in Kilbarrack Cemetery.[5]