Father Christmas

Father Christmas is the British name for Santa Claus. The name was used in songs, such as "I Believe in Father Christmas" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

Father Christmas Media

• Christmas with the Yule Log, Illustrated London News, 23 Dec 1848.jpg

  1848 depiction of Father Christmas crowned with a holly wreath, holding a staff and a wassail bowl and carrying the Yule log

• Father Christmas (centre) depicted in The Vindication of Christmas, 1652

• Scrooges third visitor-John Leech,1843 edit.jpg

  'Ghost of Christmas Present' in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol 1843.

• Old Father Christmas, or The Cave of Mystery, Illustrated London News 1866.jpg

  Old Father Christmas, or The Cave of Mystery 1866