A boy at the Hogarth Press

the long version

Richard Kennedy was educated at Marlborough. At sixteen, having failed to achieve an adequate academic standard, he left and went to work at the Hogarth Press. After he left the Hogarth Press he took a journalists' course at University College, London, and subsequently he went to the Regent Street Polytechnic where he worked industriously as an art student for two years. In the years preceding the war he worked in an advertising agency. He married Olive Johnstone whom he had met at University College and has three children.