Billy Conn was educated at the Ulster Provincial School, which is now Friends' School, Lisburn, County Antrim. In 1921 he was employed as a commercial artist by W. & G. Baird Ltd. He was appointed staff artist to the Belfast Telegraph in 1946 and contributed cartoons to Ireland's Saturday Night, among which was his regular cartoon, 'The Doings of Larry O'Hooligan'. He exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy and contributed black and white drawings to the Dublin Opinion and other magazines. He was a member of the Ulster Arts Club and the Royal Ulster Academy.

Born:	1895
Died:	25 August 1973