Hugh Casson

Hugh Casson (1910–1999) was born in Hampstead and trained in architecture at Cambridge and the Bartlett. Director of architecture for the 1951 Festival of Britain, he designed the interiors of the royal yacht Britannia, taught at the RCA for 20 years and was President of the Royal Academy from 1976 to 1984, sketching buildings in watercolour all the while. His one Great Britain issue is the 1980 London Landscapes set.