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Isi Israel Metzstein was born in the Mitte district of Berlin on 7 July 1928. His parents, Efraim and Rachel Metzstein, were Jews of Polish origin who had fled their native country in 1920 in search of a better life. Isi had a twin sister, Jenny, as well as two older brothers, Lee and Josef, and a younger brother, Leo. His father died in 1933, leaving his mother to bring up the five children alone. After the terror of Kristallnacht in November 1938, during which Isi’s all-Jewish school was set alight, his mother resolved that she and her children should flee. Thus, at eleven years of age, Isi became part of the Kindertransport, boarding the SS ‘George Washington’ which brought him to Britain.
Isi was initially taken in by a family in Hardgate, West Dunbartonshire, and was subsequently placed in a hostel with other refugee children. His mother and siblings having likewise managed to escape Germany (his oldest brother Josef had fled earlier, Leo and Isi’s twin sister Jenny arrived separately by train, and his mother and sister Lee escaped later), the family was among relatively few to be reunited at the end of the Second World War, and they settled in Glasgow, which he soon came to consider his home town – although he never lost his strong central European Jewish accent. Despite the fact that the course of his life was so closely determined by the rise of Nazism, he would always insist that he was not a ‘victim’ of the Holocaust, stressing that he had been fortunate enough to avoid its horrors and indeed to benefit from opportunities offered in his adopted country.
The young Isi attended Hyndland School. When he left in 1945, he had his sights set on a career in architecture; a friend’s mother was the seamstress of Eden Coia, wife of the celebrated architect Jack Coia, and it was through this connection that he secured an apprenticeship in the firm of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, of which Coia was the only surviving partner. In the same year, Metzstein enrolled for evening classes at Glasgow School of Art. There he met Andy MacMillan, and the pair quickly became firm friends. Every Wednesday, what was often referred to as the ‘Isi and Andy’ double act could be found at the King’s Arms on Elmbank Street, discussing architecture, culture and politics.
Metzstein was to remain in the same architectural firm for the rest of his professional life, and MacMillan joined him there in 1954. The two were to carry out most of the practice’s design work from around 1957 onwards, as Coia approached retirement. Metzstein was elected a student member of the RIBA in 1957 though he does not seem to have become an Associate.
Working in a bold and highly original Modernist idiom, Metzstein and MacMillan collaborated on a series of notable Roman Catholic churches between that year and 1980, of which St Bride’s in East Kilbride (1963–4) is among the most remarkable. Their masterwork is considered to be St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross, completed in 1966, which was to be the first modern building to be awarded Category-A listed status. They were also responsible for a series of important university buildings, including halls of residence at Hull (1963–7), additions to Wadham College, Oxford (1971–7), and Robinson College, Cambridge (1974–80). Although strongly inspired by Le Corbusier, they drew on sources as diverse as Victorian Glasgow, medieval urbanism and abstraction, and Metzstein always emphasised the importance of designing from first principles.
In 1969 Metzstein began teaching at the Glasgow School of Art, and he spent an increasing amount of time doing so as commissions grew harder to come by in the 1970s. He was appointed Professor of Architecture at Edinburgh University in 1984, returned to teach in Glasgow in 1991, and also taught at the Architectural Association in London, as well as lecturing throughout the UK and further afield – including at Syracuse, with Richard Murphy. He earned a reputation as a great thinker and a highly inspirational teacher, the directness of his advice to students and colleagues alike balanced by great warmth and wit; MacMillan remembers him as ‘the king of the Jewish one-liner’. He and MacMillan were to receive a lifetime achievement award for teaching from the RIBA in 2007.
He met his future wife Dany, also of central European Jewish origin, at a cocktail party; it was a successful set-up that resulted in love at first sight. They married in 1967 and had three children: Saul, Mark and Ruth. All three would study under him, and his son Saul recalls that ‘he was a father figure to his students, of which there were many hundreds’. Metzstein shared his passion for travel with his family; he was particularly fond of New York, Venice and Paris. Among his other interests were science, language, puzzles and cinema; he stated that if it had been possible in 1940s Glasgow, he would have liked to become a film director.
Metzstein died at his home in Glasgow on 10 January 2012. He was survived by his wife, his three children, a grandson (Eli), and his sister Jenny and brother Leo.

Completed a Foundation Diploma in Leeds before a BA(Hons) in Jewellery & Silversmithing at Edinburgh College of Art from 2011-2014.
After graduation, the business, Joseph Alessander, was set up in a family garage and run as a passion alongside full time employment as a working jeweller. The business began to take off and during the COVID-19 global pandemic in August 2019 Joseph decided to become fully self employed. In November 2021 he opened the doors to his Bespoke workshop at Pot House Hamlet in Silkstone, Barnsley.

Rowan Meredith was born on the 14th of May 2001 in Amsterdam and spent 6 years there before growing up in Brighton. In Brighton she Integrated herself with the culture and pursued her interest in art where she attended a foundation year. During her time in Brighton she focused on landscape painting and figurative painting and drawing. After her foundation year she moved to Glasgow to explore the wider UK and undertook an undergraduate at The Glasgow School of Art. During this time, she focused on finding her core subject initially through experimentation with landscapes and allegorical or symbolism through large scale paintings. In her final year at art school, she focused on the symbolism of a world overwhelmed technological devices (initially lamps) represented as tangled immersive landscapes. This work began to receive recognition and was nominated for three prizes, including the Freeland's award. She also won the McBroom Prize in 2023. At the time of writing she is living, working and exhibiting in Glasgow.

Artist's Statement:
I like to experiment with amalgamating natural forms with technology and recently this has taken the form lamps that appear as the embodiment of the uncanny. Whilst lamps typically have the function of illuminating other objects, in my paintings the lamps and wires have a life of their own, reflexively illuminating nothing other than themselves. In both my theory and practice my focus is to re-imagine our relationship to the technological landscape by drawing literally on the traditions of landscape painting replete with strange organisms that create a sense of alienation. There is an irony in using analogue media to reflect on the digital and organic shapes to describe mechanical forms. The explore a variety of gesso, paint and drawing materials as part of an exploration of the immersive potential of larger scale painting that recuperates and deploys traditional compositional techniques, such as the Baroque diagonal. Despite the use of compositional techniques, and the figurative subject, the works are very much about the act of painting itself. Layering oil paints and acrylics allows me to describe layers of representation in my work, whilst the marks shift from line drawings to gestural painting. The dark earthy tones contrast the saturated hues, which support the sense of agitation the paintings aim to bring.

Duncan Stewart Menzies was born on 23 Ocotber 1923, the son of Archibald Menzies, engine fitter, and his wife Helen Watson. He studied architecture at the University of Glasgow and graduated BSc. He was elected ARIBA in 1950 and in that same year his address was given as 3 Cochran Street, Paisley.
By 1970 he had a post in the practice Park Rowell Baird & Partners (PACE).
He died at Gartnavel General Hospital on 28 September 1992, survived by his wife Jane Paton Neil Taggart.

Grace Melvin (1892-1977) born in Glasgow, Scotland on May 28, 1892, studied at the Glasgow School of Art between 1907-1918. As a day pupil she studied Drawing and Painting, Design and attended Life classes. She studied embroidery under Ann Macbeth (1875-1948).
Melvin was later to become a member of staff at GSA, between 1920/1-1928/9. During this time her roles included the teaching of: lettering and illumination (Design and Decorative Art), 1920/21; lettering and illumination (Pictorial Design and methods of production), 1926/27; and the history of lettering and illumination, 1926/27.
Whilst in London, Melvin discovered the collection of ancient books and manuscripts, lettered and illuminated on vellum housed at the library of the British Museum. She received special permission to make copies of some of the works, and this art form became her passion for many years. At this time, whilst teaching at GSA, she was a scribe for the Corporation of Glasgow, and made many illuminated addresses for prominent people.
After seven years on the staff of the Glasgow School of Art, Melvin was given a two year leave of absence to travel to Vancouver, British Columbia to help organize the Design section of the new School of Art. She resigned from the Glasgow School and remained with the Vancouver School of Art until her retirement, as Head of the Department of Design, in 1952, after which time she became a full time painter. Grace Melvin's Basic Lettering for Art Students was published in 1927 in London and is still used. She has also illustrated and written books on lettering and design for the Department of Education of British Columbia. Later, she was commissioned to make The Books of Remembrance for the Canadian Engineers, which can be seen in St. Pauls Cathedral, London. Melvin illustrated several books for Marius Barbeau, travelling with him to Alaska to get authentic information and an intimate view of the West Coast Native Americans and their legends. Grace Melvin died on 8th March 1977.

Gladys Georgie Simpson Melvin was born on 24th April 1898 in Glasgow. She attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1915 to 1920 as a day student of drawing and painting. Melvin's registered address was Sherbrooke Avenue, Pollokshields. According to Ancestry, she was one of seven children of William Melvin and Mary Wilson Simpson Melvin. Melvin's sisters Margaret Colligan and Muriel Evelyn, and her father also attended The Glasgow School of Art. According to Ancestry, Melvin married James Aspin in June 1929. Melvin died in 1982 and Aspin died in 1960. According to the Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture, Melvin was a miniaturist who exhibited two mini-portraits, "Don" and "Dan", at the Glasgow Institute in 1919 and one, "Margaret", in 1921.

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Sources: Ancestry, http://www.ancestry.co.uk; "The Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture" by Peter JM McEwan; "The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts 1861-1989" by Roger Billcliffe.

Donald Melvin was a student at Glasgow School of Art from 1961-1967. During his time at GSA he studied Interior Design, the History of Furniture and woodcarving as well as completing the 2nd Year General Course and a Pre-Diploma/Foundation Year.

Melly, (Alan) George Heywood (1926–2007), writer and singer, was born on 17 August 1926 at The Grange, St Michael's Hamlet, Toxteth, Liverpool, the elder son and eldest of three children of Francis Heywood Melly (1900–1961), wool broker, and his wife, Edith Maud (Maudie), née Isaac (1891–1983). At the time of his birth registration his parents lived at 26 Linnet Lane, Liverpool. His father was a businessman who would rather have been a hunter and an angler. He later advised his son: 'Always do what you want to. I never did' (The Times, 17 Dec 2003). Melly's Jewish mother, to whom he owed his early love of theatre and music hall, was aspirational on her son's behalf. 'She wanted me to be Noël Coward, which may be why I imitate him so much' (The Independent, 8 Nov 1997). Sent as a boarder to Stowe School, Melly came home 'spouting Eliot and Auden and raving about Picasso and Matisse'. He also discovered surrealism in a magazine reproduction of René Magritte's Le viol (a female face with breasts for eyes and pudenda for a mouth). 'For me', he later said, 'Surrealism was a revelation, the key to a magic kingdom where misery and regression were banished for ever and poetry reigned supreme' (Daily Telegraph, 8 Nov 1997). It was an aesthetic that would rule his life. But he also found the release of jazz, in the person of Bessie Smith singing 'Gimme a Pigfoot (and a Bottle of Beer)': 'This woman roaring around, singing that line made me think, "Well, this is what I want!"' (Daily Telegraph, 5 June 2004). In 1944 Melly enlisted in the Royal Navy, in and out of whose uniform he pursued a series of homosexual encounters. But it was art that truly caught his subversive instincts. At a surrealist 'séance' in the Barcelona restaurant in Soho he met E. L. T. Mesens, Magritte's friend and editor of the London Bulletin. Melly was engaged at Mesens's London Gallery in Beak Street, and became involved in a love triangle with Mesens and his wife, Sybil. Melly found he preferred women to men: 'It was just a matter of taste … not a moral decision. Suddenly, I just liked girls' legs better than boys' arses' (The Independent, 8 Nov 1997). Back in civilian life Melly turned to performance as a new means of expression. Joining Mick Mulligan's Magnolia Jazz Band, he sang 'revivalist' 1920s jazz classics, using Benzedrine to stay up all night and occasionally sleeping in brothels. Soho was his adoptive, nocturnal home, 'a scruffy, warm, belching, argumentative, groping, spewing-up, cadging, toothbrush-in-pocket, warm-beer-gulping world' (Owning Up, 284–5). Melly met his first wife, Elizabeth Victoria (Vicky) Vaughan, a fashion model, in a Soho club. She was the daughter of Henry Owen Vaughan, radio dealer. They married in Edinburgh on 26 April 1955 and had one daughter, Pandora, but within a year she had left him for a man with whom Melly himself had already had an affair, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1962. In that year he met Diana Margaret Campion Dawson (b. 1937) at the Colony Room, his favoured Soho dive. She was the daughter of Geoffrey Campion Dawson, railway clerk, and the former wife of Michael H. St George Ashe. She had changed her surname to Melly by deed poll by the time they married on 7 May 1963, two days before their son, Tom, was born. By now Melly's jazz career—he had recorded for Decca—was overshadowed by a new pop culture that he would address in his influential survey Revolt into Style (1970). For the first time a writer took pop culture seriously, applying historical perspective and examining its post-war eruption from Colin MacInnes to the Rolling Stones. 'Pop in this country evolved from its primitive beginnings (1956–7), through its classic period (1963–6) towards its noisy and brilliant decadence (1969–?)', Melly wrote. 'It lit up the contemporary landscape as if by a series of magnesium flares … the evolution of a new kind of culture, neither "popular" nor mandarin' (Revolt into Style, 123). Revolt into Style both reflected and was mirrored in Melly's music criticism of the period. Typically his journalism was unconstrained, and ran from lucrative speech balloons for the Daily Mail's 'Flook' cartoon to film and television criticism for The Observer. He lectured most passionately on his beloved surrealists; and turned to scriptwriting with 'swinging London' screenplays like Smashing Time (1967) and Take a Girl Like You (1970), the latter based on Kingsley Amis's novel, directed by Jonathan Miller, and starring Hayley Mills and Oliver Reed. The sixties suited Melly. He was arrested at a 'Ban the bomb' march, and in 1971 testified at the infamous Oz trial, when the magazine was prosecuted for obscenity. The trial judge, Michael Argyle, asked Melly: 'For those of us who don't have the benefit of a classical education, what do you mean by the word "cunnilinctus"?' (New Statesman, 14 Aug 2008). Melly also returned to jazz, singing with John Chiltern's Feetwarmers, and in 1972 recorded an album, Nuts, of Fats Waller and Count Basie classics. The follow-up, Son of Nuts (1973), included his signature tune, 'Good Time George', written by Chiltern. In 1974 Melly resigned from The Observer and joined Chiltern's band full time, adopting his trademark razor-sharp 1930s suits and outrageous fedoras. It was a pop cultural silhouette, ironic and self-referential. Nor did age abate his sense of anarchy. He fell out with Roland Penrose, surrealist and founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, when Penrose invited the duke of Edinburgh to open a Picasso exhibition. He subsequently turned down a CBE: 'I didn't see the point of accepting an honour from a Hanoverian sovereign of a former empire' (The Guardian, 18 Feb 2004). Melly had published his first volume of memoirs, Owning Up, in 1965. A rumbustious, picaresque account of his town and provincial jazz tours, the book was both filthy and hilarious. It was followed by a prequel in the shape of Rum, Bum and Concertina (1977), which dealt with his disreputable naval service and offered such memorable scenes as Melly, the put-upon rating, being defended below decks by a tough seaman: '"Anyone who says a word against fucking Picasso", he murmured gently, "gets fucking done over"' (Owning Up, 320). A third volume, Scouse Mouse (1984), retold his Liverpudlian upbringing and underlined, in a wonderfully unsentimental yet nostalgic manner, how far he had travelled. In all three books he was at pains to strike a deliberately outrageous tone, one that enhanced rather than concealed his essentially humane and affectionate personality. Melly also wrote a witty account, with Barry Fantoni, of his milieu in The Media Mob (1980). His sensitive biography of the outsider artist Scottie Wilson, It's All Writ Out for You, appeared in 1986—a theme pursued in Tribe of One: Great Naïve and Primitive Painters of the British Isles, with Michael Wood, in 1991. He edited Edward James's Swans Reflecting Elephants: My Early Years (1982), an evocation of the great surrealist patron; and in 1997 published Don't Tell Sybil: an Intimate Memoir of ELT Mesens. Hooked! (2000) was enlivened with a passage about masturbating over a trout. 'I put that bit in early because not many people are interested in reviewing a fishing book unless something startles them' (Scotland on Sunday, 1 July 2001). In later years Melly remained a man about town despite being arthritic and quite deaf, sporting a hearing aid that gave him the air of a portly Johnny Ray. In 2005 the publication of his wife Diana Melly's frank memoir, Take a Girl Like Me, reminded the public of the bohemian nature of their lives together, and apart. Melly's own Slowing Down (2005) examined his own decrepitude with unerring honesty and lack of reticence. Despite ill health he performed into his old age, and remained steadfastly in the public eye. In a late interview for the Daily Telegraph he declared 'I'm still a surrealist in the way that I'm still an anarchist. I don't mock the naivety of my youth. I only envy it' (Daily Telegraph, 8 Nov 1997). He died on 5 July 2007 at his home, 81 Frithville Gardens, Shepherd's Bush, London. He had refused treatment for lung cancer, and his wife Diana arranged for four of his mistresses to visit him on his deathbed. He was carried to the West London crematorium in a white cardboard coffin, decorated with paintings, drawings, and poems from his family and friends.

Source: Philip Hoare, 'Melly, (Alan) George Heywood (1926–2007)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2011; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/98953, accessed 6 Aug 2015] Note Author: Philip Hoare

Sofia Mellander, who also goes by the stage name Salt, is a sound artist, musician, and filmmaker. Her work spans from pop music to hymns, to binaural experiences and documentaries. Themes found in the work include incels, assisted suicide, sex, and how insane it was that Brian from the Beach Boys wrote that song ‘Hey Little Tomboy’. Her practice at GSA ventures into more experimental areas, with less rigid narrative and sonic structures than she’s previously explored. She has an MDes Sound for the Moving Image from GSA's School of Simulation & Visualisation and was awarded the Foulis Medal in 2022.

Mellander was born in Stockholm, Sweden but has lived in Miami (USA), Costa-Rica, Ghana, Germany, England and Scotland since she was four. She currently works and performs in Glasgow.

William Meldrum was the son of a designer and born in Glasgow in 1865. According to the registers of students, he studied at The Glasgow School of Art from 1883 to 1892, enrolling in September 1883 at the age of 18. His address is listed as 16 Mordaunt Street, Glasgow. However, there is no record of his attendance for 1888-1889, suggesting he may have temporarily left the school during that time. From 1885 to 1892, he possibly continued his learning by attending evening classes, as recorded with the repeated registration numbers "144" and "282" each for three years in his final two courses.

The primary subjects of Meldrum's artworks are city views of Glasgow and scenes of nature in Scotland, for which he usually created pencil drawings and watercolour paintings. His striking artistic feature is depicting diverse views with muted tones of blues and purples. Many of his watercolour paintings were later printed as black-and-white or sepia-toned photographs.

Besides, he befriended many of the Glasgow Boys and John Quinton Pringle because he studied with them at the GSA of the time and he also had his artistic endeavours rooted in Glasgow. In particular, he was close to Pringle as he recorded that Pringle used to devote three summer months and two hours every morning to complete "The Loom (1891)" of his paintings. Pringle also made a portrait of Meldrum around 1890; the portrait is exhibited in Kelvingrove.

In his later years of artistic activity, he created a few works using seaweed from the Scottish seas. He died in Glasgow in 1942, and the possession of a few of his works was passed by his will to his son, James Meldrum. Those artworks were later presented to Glasgow Corporation in 1966.

Laura Meikleham Brown attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1914 and 1917. She studied afternoon and evening classes in Drawing and Painting, Design and Miniature. She is also listed as being a professional Artist and Designer. In fact, beside her entry for 1914-15, the word "Studio" is written, it could possibly be the case that she was also allowed to use a studio for her own practise at the GSA. During her first year, Laura took part in the Belgium Tryst, a fundraiser organised by staff and students of the School in aid of Belgian Refugees. She assisted on a stall with Mrs Purdle in the Belgian Market. Laura lived on Sauchiehall Street, right in the centre of Glasgow, at the foot of the hill below the Glasgow School of Art.

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Dorothy (or Dot) Meikle was wardrobe mistress and taught costume and fashion drawing at Glasgow School of Art between 1926/27 and 1928/29.

Left school at sixteen and followed a six year apprenticeship in the Brighton Lanes renovating antique Jewellery. He then spent time travelling before enrolling at the Cass School of Art in London (London Metropolitan University) graduating MA with distinction. In his post-graduate year he studied at the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. In Japan, three 'National Treasures', Norio Tamagawa, Masanobu Kito and Professor Itoh, taught him the traditional methods of making mokume gane, shibori, hammer chasing and engraving. Meeten's ideas are based on his passion for Tai Chi, which he has taught for many years. The forms he creates are based on the principles and solid foundations of Taoist philosophy. He works from a studio in the countryside near Exeter.

Mary Meechan was born on 17th February 1888. She attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1915 as an evening student of drawing and painting. Meechan's occupation was as a teacher. Her registered address was Allan Court, Bellshill.

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Christopher Bentley Meadows, M.C., who lived in Saltcoats, in the Parish of Ardrossan, Ayrshire, was born in Houston Renfrewshire on 24 May 1894, the second of the three children of Ada and Christopher Meadows, a self-employed artist specialising in animals and portraits . Christopher Bentley Meadows attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1910 to 1915 as a full-time student of Drawing and Painting. In 1913, he received a Haldane Day Bursary for £20 and, the following year, was the recipient of a £50 Maintenance Bursary. During the First World War, he served as a Private in the 17th Highland Light Infantry, Lance Corporal in the 9th Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) and, finally, 2nd Lieutenant King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment, 1st Battalion. He was killed in action on 19 May 1918. Christopher Bentley Meadows was awarded the Military Cross and is buried in Mont-Bernanchon British Cemetery, Gonnehem, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. He is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk; Ancestry.co.uk: http://www.ancestry.co.uk

Andrew Ritchie McWilliam was born in Shawlands, Glasgow on the 8th May 1894, one of two children of Margaret McWilliam (née Sorley) and William McWilliam, a ship steward. McWilliam attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1911 to 1914 as a part time student of architecture. During the First World War, McWilliam served as a Lance Corporal in the Cameron Highlanders 7th battalion. This battalion was formed in Inverness and landed in Boulogne on the 9th of July 1915. It appears that McWilliam may have been part of a Pals Battalion as he attended GSA on the same semesters as students such as John McGirr, Donald McLeod and James Drummond who also fought in this battalion. McWilliam was killed in action on the 28th August 1916, aged 22. His death is likely to have occurred at the Battle of the Somme which took place from the 1st of July to the 18th of November 1916. The Battle of Pozieres took place within the Somme, between the 23rd of July and the 3rd of September 1916, where battalions fought for a small village on high ground which gave occupiers an advantage of sight. It is possible that his comrade Donald McLeod also lost his life at this battle. A memorial is in place for McWilliam at Thiepval Memorial, France, located westward of Pozieres. McWilliam is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/; Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; The National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/; Every Man Remembered: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/734996/; Commonwealth War Graves Commission: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/804041/McWILLIAM,%20ANDREW%20RITCHIE; The Long, Long Trail: http://www.1914-1918.net/cameron.htm; http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/battles/battles-of-the-western-front-in-france-and-flanders/the-battles-of-the-somme-1916/; Imperial War Museums: http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-pals-battalions-of-the-first-world-war

McRoberts enrolled at GSA in 1900 after being awarded a Glasgow City Educational Endowment in 1899. He attended evening classes in modelling (sculpture) over seven years while working, initially as a traveller and manufacturers agent, and latterly as a merchant. The register records his home address as 40 Princes Street, which was also the address of Elizabeth C. McRoberts, aged 19, who attended the GSA in 1901-02 and is presumed to be his sister. His classes were taught by Mr Johannes Keller, a lecturer brought in from Germany by Fra. Newbery, the School's Director at that time.

McRoberts exhibited at the RGIFA annual exhibitions 11 times between 1899 and 1963

David M McRay was a student at the Glasgow School of Art c1914. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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William G McQuiston was a student at the Glasgow School of Art c1914. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Robert L McQueen studied at The Glasgow School of Art from 1918-1920. He attended day classes in design. His occupation is listed as painter and he resided in Glasgow street, Dumfries.If you have any further information about Robert L McQueen, please get in touch.

Erin McQuarrie graduated in Textile Design from The Glasgow School of Art in 2018. In 2018 she was awarded the Newbery Medal and jointly received the Incorporation of Bonnetmakers. Erin won a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake a Textiles MFA, at The New School, Parsons School of Design, NYC, U.S.A., 2019-2021.

James McNeill is recorded as a student in the 1907-8 session, for just one year, as an evening student studying Design. There is no age or date of birth given, which is unusual. An address of “37 Barloch Street, Possilpark" is provided.

In 1912, Henderson married a fellow student, James McNeill. The student registers of 1912-13 amend her name, adding ‘Mrs McNeill’ in brackets, though this is not repeated in other years. Their marriage ended in 1929 with a decree of divorce on grounds of desertion.

McNeill would go on to be a teacher and a woodworker. His address was later "Theffort", 81 Oswald Road, Ayr, a house which he designed and built himself.

Isobel McNeill studied Graphics at GSA in the 1970s. She designed and modelled garments in the 1978 fashion show.

Alexander McNaughton was a student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1910-1916.

Robert M McNaught was a student at the Glasgow School of Art c1914. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Harry S McNair was a student at the Glasgow School of Art c1914. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Alex McNail (Alexander McNeill) was born in Rose Street in Glasgow on the 15th of August 1885 and was one of four children of Helen McNeill, (née Pringle) a dressmaker and Alexander McNeill, a shoemaker. He had an older sister, Elizabeth, and two younger brothers, James and John. Though his name is spelt "McNail" on the Roll of Honour, it is likely that this is an error as his name is spelt "McNeill" on his birth certificate and various other records. McNeill attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1903 to 1904 as a part time student of design. He also attended from 1904 to 1905 and 1907 to 1908 and though his course details and birth dates for these semesters are unmarked, he is noted to have worked as a bootmaker, most likely alongside his father. From 1908 to 1909, he attended as a part time student of painting and printmaking. From 1912 to 1915, he studied as a part time student of etching. During the First World War, McNeill served as part of the Royal Scots battalion. He was a known Glasgow engraver and dry point etcher and exhibited many times in places such as the Royal Scottish Academy and the Glasgow Institute. There are at least 57 of his works in Glasgow. McNeill died on the 3rd of December 1950, aged 65. McNeill is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk; Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architects by Peter J. M. McEwan.

James McNab, better known as Hamish, was born on 22 July 1891, the eldest son of Isabella Braid Christie McNab (nee Walls) and William Hunter McNab, architect. James' father, William, worked in the office of William Leiper, well known for his arts and crafts /Scots baronial styled houses particularly in the Helensburgh area and also for churches and the polychromatic Venetian Gothic Templeton Carpet Factory. William Hunter McNab eventually took over Leiper's practice becoming sole partner on Leiper's retirement in 1909. James McNab commenced his studies at The Glasgow School of Art in 1907 until 1914 whilst working as an apprentice with James Miller. James' younger brother William Leiper, presumably named after his father's former partner , also studied architecture at The Glasgow School of Art from 1915 but by this point James had left to serve with the Royal Engineers, rising to the rank of Lieutenant by his discharge in 1919. In 1927 his father took him into partnership and two years later he became a lecturer in Paisley College of Technology and School of Art. He was elected LRIBA in mid-1933, his proposers being James Miller, John Keppie and John Watson. He was also a member of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. His father died in December 1935, and Hamish continued the practice under the existing title of William Hunter McNab & Son. His brother William Leiper McNab, also worked in the family firm but did not become a principal. The practice had very little architectural business after 1930. The office at 121 West George Street was also the studio of Hamish's sculptress wife, Florence Ida Mary Magee, and they supported themselves mainly by making garden statuary, craftwork and decorative work. In the late 1930s they downsized to the Aitken Studios at 551 Sauchiehall Street. McNab died on 21 April 1937 aged 46 years. James McNab is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk ;Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk ;The Dictionary of Scottish Architects: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk

The "designer-jeweller-silversmith'' set up her business, Elements Eternal, in Glasgow in the late 1990s. After graduating from Art School, where she specialised in clocks, she now designs and makes everything from eggcups and first-tooth boxes to kilt pins and cufflinks. She also makes a range of jewellery including engagement rings - with a twist. Her best known pieces though are beautiful quaichs - whisky cups - with a modern feel.
Commissions have included a ring for the Dougray Scott film One Last Chance and a brass wedding head-dress for the BBC meteorologist Heather Reid.
Winner of a Balvenie Artisan award in 2004.

Mairghread McLundie is a researcher at the Digital Design Studio, Glasgow School of Art. She graduated from Glasgow University in 1983 with a degree in Computing Science. Following ten years working in computer facilities management for a firm of consulting engineers, she enrolled at Glasgow School of Art, graduating with a degree in Design (Silversmithing and Jewellery) in 1997. An interest in the relative absence of computer systems in the applied arts formed the basis of study for a one year masters degree, titled "An Investigation into Interaction with Computer Systems for 3D Design and Modelling, in Terms of Interface and Process". Her recently completed Ph.D. research focused on the relationship between individual designers and the artefacts and media they work with in their design processes, and how differences in this relationship might inform the development of future digital environments for creative practice.

Donald Campbell McLeod was born in Glasgow on the 14th April 1894, one of five children of Elizabeth McLeod, a dressmaker and Norman McLeod, a blacksmith. McLeod attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1910-1911 and again from 1914-1915, as a part time student of architecture. During the First World War, McLeod served as a private in the Cameron Highlanders 7th battalion. This battalion was formed in Inverness and landed in Boulogne on the 9th of July 1915, though

Sources state McLeod was first posted on the 8th July 1915. It is possible that McLeod joined as part of a Pals battalion alongside other students who fought in the First World War, including Andrew McWilliam, James Drummond and John McGirr. On 2nd October 1915, he was admitted to hospital for a bullet wound. McLeod was killed in action on the 17th August 1916, aged 22, and has a memorial in Pozieres British Cemetery in France. His death is likely to have occurred at the Battle of the Somme which took place from the 1st of July to the 18th of November 1916. The Battle of Pozieres took place within the Somme, between the 23rd of July and the 3rd of September 1916, where battalions fought for a small village on high ground which gave occupiers an advantage of sight. It is possible that his comrade Andrew McWilliam also lost his life at this battle. McLeod is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; The National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/; Every Man Remembered: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/734996/; Lives of the First World War: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/2845217#facts; The Long, Long Trail: http://www.1914-1918.net/cameron.htm; http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/battles/battles-of-the-western-front-in-france-and-flanders/the-battles-of-the-somme-1916/; Imperial War Museums: http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-pals-battalions-of-the-first-world-war

Born in Milngavie, McLellan attended Bearsden Academy, where her art teacher was the artist Willie Armour. She enrolled at The Glasgow School of Art in 1931 and gained her Diploma (with Distinction) in Design and Decorative Art: Stained Glass, in 1935, and the Endorsement of Diploma following post-diploma study in 1936. A gifted student, she was awarded a minor Travelling Scholarship in 1934, a Maintenance Scholarship in 1935, and the John Keppie Scholarship in 1936.

During her third year at the School she entered the stained-glass workshop of Charles Baillie, designer of the famous Rogano restaurant, in Glasgow, and a prolific artist in stained glass. She used her Keppie Scholarship to visit Scandinavia and her post diploma year was spent at the Danish Royal Academy of Art, in Copenhagen.

In 1938 she contributed a mural, a stained-glass panel and an embossed panel to the Women's Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition. Between 1943 and 1947 she joined the GSA staff working in the Department of Design and Crafts, Glass. In 1953, she was awarded a significant commission to execute a scheme of 10 windows for the Robin Chapel of the Thistle Foundation in Craigmillar, Edinburgh.

McLellan later pioneered the use of a stained glass technique called "Dalle de verre" in Scotland. She used this technique in her best known work at Pluscarden Abbey, near Elgin.

From 1971 McLellan and her husband, Walter Pritchard, a fellow stained glass artist, worked in Crawfordjohn, South Lanarkshire. In 1989 she retired to live with her daughter in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Kenneth McLellan studied Printed Textiles at GSA in the 1980s. He designed the extravagant ballgown, Crinoline, which replicated a dress from 1760 and which was modelled in the 1982 fashion show. The dress was shown at the "Young Blood" exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London from November 1983 to January 1984, and was featured in the Sunday Times Colour Magazine.

In session 1981-82, Kenneth won the Incorporation of Cordiners and Incorporation of Skinners and Glovers Prize for Leatherwork and a Maintenance Scholarship for a further year's study in Glasgow. He also won the Scottish Education Department Travelling Scholarship in session 1982-83.

Sources: 'Design from Glasgow School', March 1984, Foulis Archive Press Glasgow; Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) https://vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=112469&sos=0; GSA Annual Reports 1981-82 and 1982-83 GOV/1/11

Liz McLean (now McKay) studied Design at GSA in the 1980s and modelled in the 1984, 85 and 86 fashion shows.

She has worked in jewellery and from 2010 has been a branch manager for Spence Diamonds in Toronto.

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Claire McLean studied Textiles at GSA from 1974 and designed garments for the 1978 fashion show.

Company: Glasgow Life.

Lyn McLaughlin started as an AV Technician in the Architecture School in 1978 and then went on to work as a Technical Assistant to the whole school in various departments.
As at July 2017, she works as part of the Learning Technology Resource unit. Lyn filmed and edited the films for the fashion shows from 1982 to 1986.

GSA alumna
Originally from North Ayrshire, she graduated from GSA in 2007. In 2010, opened a gallery and jewellery workshop called ‘Au’ in Glasgow’s west end with a fellow graduate. Now based in Dunbar, East Lothian.

Born 11 April 1914 in Stirling, Scotland. Died Quebec, Canada in 1987. Animator and filmmaker. Attended Glasgow School of Art from 1931-1936 gaining a Diploma in Interior Design in 1936. He won Windsor & Newton Prize 1932, James Brough Memorial Prize, 1934. He also took part in GSA Dramatic Society (1934) and was a member of GSA’s Kinecraft Society.

After art school he went on to be a highly successful filmmaker. Following short professional stints in London and New York, he moved to Canada to work with renowned Scottish documentary filmmaker John Grierson at The National Film Board of Canada, where he made his most creative and acclaimed works.

The Mackintosh Building foyer contained a Scottish Film Council plaque, installed in 1996 as part of the Film Council’s celebration of 100 years of Scottish Cinema.

McLaren studied Architecture at The Glasgow School of Art around 1947 when he won the John Keppie Scholarship. Please get in touch if you have any further information.

William K McLachlan was born in Govan, probably in 1887, one of 2 children of Christina and James, who worked on ferries. His brother John A McLachlan was born in 1893. William McLachlan attended The Glasgow School of Art in 1902 and 1904-5 while he worked as a woodcutter and lived in Govan. During the First World War, McLachlan served in the Scottish Rifles as a Lieutenant. McLachlan is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk and Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.com

Valerie McLachlan (née Gardiner) studied the General Course and then Graphic Design at Glasgow School of Art between 1967-1971, gaining a Diploma in Graphic Design.