Thomas Leonard Bousfield Huskinson [commonly known as Thomas L B. Huskinson and as Leonard Huskinson] was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England on 7 October 1905 and studied under Henry Tonks at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London from 1923 to 1925. He subsequently worked as a painter and illustrator. He also taught art at Radley College in Oxfordshire and was an examiner for the Oxford and Cambridge Joint Board.

He illustrated a number of books, notably editions of Anthony Tollope's novel Phineas Redux for Oxford University Press in 1951, and Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays for The Heirloom Library in 1957. A solo exhibition of Huskinson's work was held at Beaux Arts Gallery in London in 1934. He also exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and at Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery.

His address was given as The Parsonage House, Witney, Oxfordshire in 1939, and Triscombe House, Bishops Lydeard, Taunton, Somerset in 1974. He died in Taunton Deane, Somerset on 8 November 1974.

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