George du Maurier

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a French-British cartoonist, illustrator and novelist. His first novel, Peter Ibbetson, published in 1891, has been adapted into films, an opera and a play. He was known for his work in Punch and for his 1894 Gothic novel Trilby. He was born in 1834 and died in 1896. He also wrote Trilby, a novel featuring the character Svengali, and his son was the actor Sir Gerald du Maurier. The writers Angela and Daphne du Maurier and the artist Jeanne du Maurier were his granddaughters, and he was grandfather of the five boys who inspired J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan.