Father Christmas

Father Christmas, also known as Santa Claus, is the gift-bringing figure of Christmas Eve in Britain, Ireland and much of the English-speaking world. He is pictured as a warm, white-bearded older man in a red fur-trimmed suit and hat, and the modern image took hold through Victorian illustration and twentieth-century advertising. Children traditionally leave out a mince pie and a drink for him, and a carrot for the reindeer.