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Pamela Mitchell was a student at the School between 1955 and 1959 and studied Textiles. She recieved the Haldane Traveling Scholarship in 1959. Please get in touch if you have any further information.

Robert Mitchell 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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Thomas Mitchell was born on 13 May 1906 and was articled to Mills & Shepherd of Dundee in July 1922, attending classes at the Dundee Technical College. He completed his apprenticeship in August 1926 and the following month was admitted to the degree course at Glasgow School of Architecture at third-year level, studying under Thomas Harold Hughes. During the summer holiday in 1927 he worked in the office of Wylie, Wright & Wylie as an assistant, and at some point that year he spent a fortnight in Paris. He made a further two-week study tour in 1928, this time to Normandy, and travelled around Scotland and England at various times before passing the qualifying exam in April 1929 'with great distinction', according to Hughes. Later that year he set out on a five-month tour of Europe including France, Italy, Austria and Germany, and he was admitted ARIBA at the end of the year, his proposers being Hughes, David Bateman Hutton and Thomas Lumsden Taylor. At that time he was living at 6 Dalhousie Road, Barnhill, Broughty Ferry. Besides his architectural qualifications Mitchell was a structural engineer. He set business on his own account before 1950 in London at 20 Bedford Square. He had been awarded the MBE by then. The practice name was Thomas Mitchell & Partners. Mitchell died in 1996 in Surrey, his death being registered in June of that year.

Mizuho Koizumi (b. Saitama, Japan 1972) is a silversmith who studied at the London Guildhall; graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2001; and also trained with a number of makers, including the jeweller, Mah Rana. She is based in Cockpit Studios and also teaches at Kensingtaon and Chelsea College. She combines man-made materials with plant life for her beautiful silverware. In her work she pays homage to a variety of flowers and plants including the rose, magnolia, weeping willow, thistle and lavender.

Painter, notably of portraits of his artistic contemporaries; teacher, writer and curator of exhibitions. He was born in Dunfermline, Fife, and studied at Edinburgh college of Art, 1960-4. For the next decade he worked in an engineering factory and as a photographer. From 1968-78 Moffat was chairman of 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, and he went on to select several shows of contemporary painting. From 1979 Moffat taught at Glasgow School of Art, breathing new life into the School's tradition of hard-edged figurative painting. He became head of painting and chairman of the school of fine art. Among Moffat's exhibitions was one of his portraits at Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 1973; a travelling show of portraits of Scottish poets, organised by Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, 1981-2; and portraits of young artists at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1988.

David Moffat was a student at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1970s.

Dorothea Lillian Mohr was born in Aberdeen on 9th October 1886. She was one of two children of Georgina and Ernst Mohr, a British naturalised subject born in Germany. An art mistress, Mohr attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1915 as an evening student of design. Her registered address was Melrose Gardens, Kelvinside, Glasgow.

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William Allan Mollison was born in Glasgow, Lanark on the 1st of April 1896 to John Mollison, a dyer and his wife Margaret Houston Mollison. He studied at Hillhead High School and Glasgow's Technical College before enrolling to a part time Architecture course at the Glasgow School of Art in 1913.

He volunteered for active service on the outbreak of war in August 1914 and immediately joined the 9th Highland Light Infantry as a Private. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant 2nd/6th Duke of Wellington (West Riding Regt) on the 17th June 1915 and volunteered for service in France the following September, where he served with the Expeditionary Force. After several months in the trenches at Ypres he developed rheumatic fever and was invalided to hospital. Once recovered he was put on draft work backwards and forwards to France and in 1916 served in the Battle of The Somme, during which he was promoted Lieutenant.

In November 1916 he was blown up into the air from the concussion of a shell bursting on the parapet where he was on guard. This brought on a return of his rheumatism and he was again invalided home, where, after a time on light duty, he became attached to the Machine Gun Corps. Having successfully gone through his training, he was put on as an Instructor for five months.

In December 1917 he left for Palestine where he served until April 1918, when he was recalled to France with the 52nd Division. He died at the 14th General Hospital, Wimereaux as a result of wounds and gas received in action on the 1st October 1918. He is buried in Terlinethun British Cemetery, Wimille, near Boulogne. He was recommended for the Military Cross for gallant and distinguished service in the field on the 27th and 31st August 1918.

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Sources: the Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture by Peter J M McEwan; the Dictionary of Scottish Architects: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk; Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

William Moloney was the second child of John and Mary Moloney (née Winslow), who married in Cork on November 24th 1860. His father was in the army so the family was uprooted a number of times during William's childhood.

He was born May 7th 1863 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada where his father was stationed for 6 years during the 1860's. The family moved to Bermuda around 1868 where they lived for just under 3 years before John was transferred again, this time to Bengal, India. They stayed in India for 7 years, moving one last time, to Glasgow, after William's father was discharged from the army in February 1879.

William followed in his father's footsteps, enlisting in the army in 1887. He married Mary Anne McCabe in Dundalk, February 24th 1892 and their first child,Mary Bridget, was born in Dundalk in 1893. William and Mary Anne moved to Glasgow in 1894.

William was in the Second Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys), serving in the Boer war from June 1900 to August 1902 , and was awarded the Queens South Africa Clasps for his service. He was discharged from the army in April 1903.

By the time of the 1911 census William was living at 16 Fleming Street, Cowcaddens and had a family of eight. With his experience in The Royal Scots Greys, which was a cavalry regiment, and his love of horses, he was well equipped to carry out his new job of training Glasgow's police horses who at that time were in Henderson stables. He also trained the women's yeomanry, later working at a circus in Cowcaddens, most likely Bostock's Scottish Zoo and Variety Circus, which had a permanent site on New City Road in Cowcaddens from 1897. His daughter Mary Bridget said he loved horses more than he loved humans.

It's not certain when he began working as a model at Glasgow School of Art but he was certainly working there when his daughter Catherine married in 1927 and at the time of his death on May 28th 1928. In a letter to the Glasgow School of Art, written at the time of his death, his daughter Francis thanks the staff and students for their kindness and sympathy on the sudden death of her father and for the beautiful wreath.

Reference to Moloney's death can be found in the Archives and Collections in the form of a letter written by his daughter Frances (Archive Reference: GSAA/SEC/1, 1928, "M").

Jonathan Monk was born in Leicester in 1969 and lives and works in Berlin. He has a BFA from Leicester Polytechnic (1988) and an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (1991). He studied in Glasgow alongside Douglas Gordon, David Shrigley and Christine Borland, and has known Shrigley (also from Leicester) since they were teenagers. Exploring notions of authorship, Monk is most well known for appropriating the work of other artists and using it for his own purposes. He views true originality as an impossibility, and draws upon material that has already been conceived of as a basis for his own artworks. However, Monk still understands his own work as novel. As he explains, “I always think that art is about ideas, and surely the idea of an original and a copy of an original are two very different things.”

Alexander Ronaldson L Montgomerie was born on the 2nd May 1898, one of 4 children (siblings; James, John and Edward) of Helen (née Porter) and Archibald, a blacksmith. Montgomerie attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1914-1916 as an evening student, first of drawing and painting and then modelling, while working as an apprentice potter. He registered again to study as an evening student in 1916-1917, however was unable to attend as he was called up for duty. During the First World War, Montgomerie served as a lieutenant in the Scottish Rifles. Montgomerie 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.com

Eli Montlake, born in 1923, was an artist and sculptor from Giffnock in Glasgow. He studied at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1930s and 1940s. His father changed the family name of Mundlak to Montlake in Glasgow where Eli, short for Elijah, was born and grew up. His talent was recognised vey early and he attended The Glasgow School of Art and later art school in London when he stayed with his uncle and cousins.

His wartime Glasgow art circle included refugee artists like Josef Herman and Jankel Adler, and talented locals like Robert Frame and Helen Biggar, some of whom joined him in London when he moved there permanently. They exhibited as the New Scottish Group at the Edinburgh Festival in 1947; and as the Gorbals Artists when Glasgow Unity brought their famous production of The Gorbals Story (1946) to London in 1948.

On 11 Oct 1948, Eli Montlake married Helen Biggar at Wandsworth register office in London, however she died five years later in 1953. In 1955 he married Irene Crooks at the Chelsea Registry Office in London. He later moved to Ibiza and lived there for the rest of his life. He died aged 69 on 11 Aug 1992 and is buried in Ibiza.

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Hannah Mooney graduated in Painting and Printmaking from The Glasgow School of Art in 2017. In 2017 she was awarded the James Nicol McBroom Memorial prize for fine art.

Eleanor Allen Moore (Robertson) was born in County Antrim in 1885 and died in Edinburgh in 1955. In 1888 she moved with her family to Ayrshire, Scotland, where her father worked as a minister at Loudoun Old Parish Church. From 1902 to 1907 she studied drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art, where she was a contemporary of Norah Neilson Gray. During the First World War she served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at Craigleith Hospital, Edinburgh. In 1922 she married Dr Robert Cecil Robertson and she gave birth to their daughter, Ailsa, the following year. In 1925 the family moved to Shanghai, China, where Roberston was appointed with the Shanghai Municipal Council. There Moore continued to paint, inspired by the street scenes of Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta. She and her daughter were evacuated from Shanghai during the Sino-Japanese War in 1937, and returned to Scotland soon after. Dr Robertson remained in Hong Kong where he died in 1942. Moore belongs to the Glasgow Girls, to a group of women artists and designers who coalesced in Glasgow at the turn of the century. Eleanor A Moore is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Glasgow Girls: Artists and Designers 1890-1930 by Liz Arthur; the Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture by Peter J M McEwan.

Sam Moore graduated in 2009 with a BA from the University of Ulster, and then completed her Masters .
Her work in the medium of silver and precious metal, investigates how objects, inherited, gifted, collected and found, tell the stories of our lives: the things we surround ourselves with and allow to occupy our most personal spaces in the rituals of our daily lives.
Combining a love of ritual, storytelling and of course a decent drink, the work often contains stories and interior scapes made out of silver and gold with precious and semi precious stones, layered with delicate pierced patterns in hand formed vessels.

Rory More was a GSA architecture graduate, 2016.

Sigita Morkunaite graduated in Fine Art from The Glasgow School of Art in 2016. In 2016 she was awarded the W. O. Hutchison prize for Fine Art.

Ailsa Morrant graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in Silversmithing and Jewellery in 2018. She won the Chairman's Medal and P Wylie Davidson Memorial Prize in 2018. Ailsa was Artist in Residency at GSA in 2018-19 and 2019-20, and has exhibited in a number of countries.

Source: http://www.ailsamorrant.com/, https://gsaarchives.net/2019/05/archive-anecdotes-ailsa-morrant-one-year-on-from-degree-show/

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Graduated from the GSA in 2019 with a first class honours degree in Jewellery Design with many of her pieces inspired by playground play structures and theme parks, some powder coated in bright colours

Born in 1865 in Winchester, he was raised by his Aunt following the death of his parents. Initially destined for the Church, Morris left Lancing College and became articled to his uncle’s architectural practice in Reading, later moving to the offices of Martin Brookes in London. As he became more interested in the decorative arts, he was inspired by William Morris and the flourishing Arts and Crafts movement, particularly by the graphics. At the age of twenty-six he was a sub editor on the weekly Black and White journal published by Cassell and Company.

In 1892 he married his second cousin, Alice Marsh, a talented writer of children’s books, and he became art director for the Glasgow publishing firm Blackie & Son in the following year. He became a friend and patron to ‘the four,’ Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Herbert McNair, and the sisters Frances and Margaret MacDonald, and introduced Mackintosh to Walter Blackie, who went on to commission the Hill House.

Morris played a major role in promoting the Glasgow Style through his designs and commissions for book covers for popular titles which were aimed at the mass market. His own designs included architectural frames, geometric abstraction, spare lettering, whiplash lines and stylized flowers and birds - all Glasgow Style motifs.
Morris also developed a distinctive and elegant style of lettering. In addition to book covers, he produced designs for page layout, endpapers and title-pages and his design work extended to textiles, interior design and brass metalwork – including some for his home, Dunglass Castle.

Dogged by ill health, he retired in 1909 and died from a cardiac embolism at the age of forty five.

William Morris, the English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and social activist, was one of the most significant cultural figures of Victorian Britain. He visited the Glasgow School of Art in Feb 1889 to deliver a lecture on 'Arts and Crafts' to the students.

Adam Cook Morrison was born on the 10th of June, c.1896, one of four children of Susan and Thomas Morrison, an engineer turner. Adam attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1912 to 1914 as a part-time student in Drawing and Painting in his first year, and Sculpture in his second. While he was studying, he worked as a shipping clerk. During the First World War, he served in the 17th battalion of the Highland Light Infantry. Adam Cook Morrison 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.ancstry.co.uk.

painter and teacher, born in Glasgow. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1950-1954, then taught part-time, 1955-8. In 1962-3 he was visiting artist at Patrick Allan-Fraser School of Art, Hospitalfield, Arbroath. In 1965 he joined the staff of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, becoming head of department from 1979-87, when he resigned to paint full-time. He then made an extended painting trip to Canada, having in 1968 won an Arts Council Travelling Scholarship to Greece. He was keeper of RSA, a council member of SSA and a member of RSW. Morrison was a frequent broadcaster on the arts on television. One of his most notable achievements was the series of paintings of disappearing and decaying Glasgow which he made over many years, featured in an exhibition at William Hardie Gallery, Glasgow, 1990. Frequent one-man shows also included a series at Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.

Jean W Morrison attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1915 as an evening student of design. Her registered address was Airlie Gardens in Hyndland.

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Margaret Mackie (Peggy) Morrison was born in Partick, Lanarkshire on 19th April 1897 to Agnes Brysson and Arthur M Morrison. She attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1909 to 1916 as a student of design and drawing and painting. Her registered address was Merchiston, Scotstounhill, Glasgow. Both Morrison (pseudonymously as March Cost) and her sister Agnes (Nancy) Brysson Morrison (1903-1986) were novelists. Morrison's mother Agnes was the founder of the Flag Day movement which raised money for worthy causes concerned with the First World War, particularly Belgium and prisoners of war. Margaret Morrison died in 1973.

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Sources: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; Imperial War Museum: http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/first-world-war-fundraising-pins-and-badges; The National Archives Discovery: http://www.discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk.

Annie Morton was born on 28th December 1894 in Renfrew. Annie was the youngest of five children of Mary and Hugh Smith Morton, a draper of H.S. Morton & Co. Annie attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1911 to 1917 as a day student of drawing and painting. Her registered address was The Haining, Renfrew. According to Ancestry, she married James Montgomery, had two children, and died in 1978 in Stockport.

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Sources: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

Elizabeth (Elsie) Douglas Morton was born on 23rd May 1891 in Scotland. She was one of five children of Gavin and Elizabeth Morton. Morton attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1911 to 1917 as a day student of design. She was taught by Professor Bell in the year 1916-1917. Her registered address was in Carlisle for the first two years she attended, and then afterwards, the Bridge of Allan. Her term-time address was Derby Crescent in Glasgow.

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Source: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

George Morton was born in Maryhill, Glasgow on June 18th 1890, one of three children of Agnes Morton (née White) and Thomas Morton, a sailor. Morton attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1907 to 1913 as a part-time student of architecture, working as an architect's apprentice during this period. During the First World War, Morton served in the London Scottish Regiment, later receiving the title of Lieutenant with the Northumberland Fusiliers regiment. He died in November 23rd 1918, and is buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery. Morton is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: the Commonwealth War Graves Commission: http://www.cwgc.org; Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

Janet Hepburn Morton was born on 17th November 1893. Morton, a secretary, attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1916 as an evening student of drawing and painting. Her registered address was Princes Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow.

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Sources: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

Robert Morton 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 Harold Morton was born in Stirling on the 13th March 1892 to Nora Morton and Robert Morton, a master ironmonger. He studied drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1908 to 1911. During the First World War he served in the Artists Rifles regiment. From 1920 to 1924 he attended the Edinburgh School of Art. He was an active member of the Society of Scottish Artists, and exhibited widely throughout his career. He died in 1965. Robert H Morton is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour. The Glasgow School of Art's student registers also contain a Robert H Morton who studied in 1901 and worked as an architect's apprentice, but we have no further details regarding this student. If you can confirm which Robert H Morton the Roll of Honour refers to, or have any more information, please get in touch.

Sources: http://www.exploreart.co.uk.

Glasgow born Thomas Corsan Morton worked in a lawyers office for a short time before going on to study at The Glasgow School of Art, the Slade, and in Paris under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. Focussing on landscape painting, he became a member of the Glasgow Boys and a tutor in landscape at The Glasgow School of Art. Prior to 1900 Morton also assisted Francis Newbery in running life classes.

In 1908 Morton became Keeper of the Scottish National Gallery and in 1925 he was appointed the first Curator at Kirkcaldy Gallery of Art where he remained until his death in 1928.

Michael Moulder was Academic Registrar at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1970s.

Alexander Moyes was a joiner who studied as an evening student at the GSA from 1883 to 1886. He lived at 19 Clarendon Street in Partick.

Ellen Marion Muir was born on 19th August 1898. She attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1915 to 1916 as an afternoon student of drawing and painting. Her registered address was Falside, Paisley. According to the Scottish Post Office Directory for Paisley, J&J Muir resided at the same address and owned a grocers, wine and spirit merchants on Neilston Road, Paisley.

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Sources: Scottish Post Office Directory on NLS 1911-1912, http://www.digital.nls.uk/directories/browse

Ugo Mulas was an Italian photographer noted for his portraits of artists and his street photography.

John Orr Mullen (born 04/05/1901) attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1918 and 1919. He studied Evening Classes in Drawing and Painting. John worked as a Cinema Operator. This industry was particularly thriving during the First World War, as for those that attended, the News Reels that played before each film were a valuable insight into what was going on at the Front. John lived in Barrhead.

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Sources: theglasgowstory.com

Jean C Mulligan was born on 10th May 1888. Mulligan, a teacher of dressmaking, attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1912 to 1918 as a student of design and drawing and painting, under the tutelage of Mr Nicholas, Miss Macbeth, and Miss Macbeth. Her registered address was Stewartville Street, Partick.

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Elizabeth (Elsie) Moffat Munro was born on 9th July in either 1889, 1890 or 1891. She was the oldest of three children of Jane and William Munro. Munro attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1913 to 1915 as a student of design. Her registered address was Beechwood Terrace, Langside. Munro then attended the School again from 1918 to 1927 as a student of design, drawing and painting, needlework and metalwork. Her address for these years was Langside Road, Newlands.

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Source: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk.

Gordon Fraser Munro attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1915 to 1916 as an evening student of drawing and painting. Munro's occupation was listed as clerk. His registered address was Clarkston, Glasgow.

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Liz Munro studied Textiles at GSA in the 1960s and 70s, and taught in Textile Design at GSA in the 1970s. She is credited for special thanks on the 1978 fashion show programme.

In 2005, Liz and her daughter Nuala were awarded a prize for their Sense and Sensuality exhibition at the Royal College of Art, exploring Nuala's visual impairment.

Sources: GSA Flow Magazine Issue 6 http://www.gsa.ac.uk/media/455301/flow_issue_6.pdf; University of St Andrews https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/archive/2005/title,42933,en.php

William Scott Munro was born in Eastwood, Renfrewshire, on the 20th of February 1891, one of 4 children of Agnes Roberta Munro (née Brown) and William Munro (Snr.), a bookkeeper. William attended evening classes at The Glasgow School of Art from 1912 to 1915 as a part-time student of architecture. Moving from the family home in Firbank, Milngavie, William resided at 759 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, during his final year (1914-1915) at The Glasgow School of Art before joining the war effort.

During the First World War, William served in in the Royal Horse Artillery regiment.

According to http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk, [i]"The RHA was responsible for light, mobile guns that provided firepower in support of the cavalry. It was the senior arm of the artillery, but the one that developed and grew least during the Great War. In 1914 the establishment was one battery to each Brigade of Cavalry. A battery had six 13-pounder field guns, and included 5 officers and 200 men."[/i]

After the war, he worked as an architect and produced the feuing plan for the Hazelwood estate in Dumbreck, Glasgow, in 1923 as well as the designs for a house at 37 Second Avenue in the same estate.

Still resident at 759 Pollokshaws Road, William married Elizabeth Marshall McColl, a draper's assistant, on the 25th of April 1928 at 29 Waterside Street, Strathaven. Then, from around 1928 until 1939 (or later), he was part of an architectural firm at 182 Trongate, Glasgow; the same address as the noted architect, John Fairweather.

William died, aged sixty-one, of coronary thrombosis on December 13th 1952 at his residence at 51 Minard Road, Glasgow.

William Scott Munro is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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

John Murdoch was born in Glasgow in 1824. He showed an early talent in sketching, and after the family moved to Aberlady, he became an apprentice engraver with W A & K Johnstone the map publishers in Edinburgh and won prizes from the Royal Institution of Edinburgh for designs in china and stoneware.

His work caught the attention of the Earl of Weymss who encouraged him to go on to study at the Government School of Design at Somerset House in London and helped secure his release from Johnstones so he could pursue his art training.

By 1846, he was sent to Birmingham to take temporary charge of the School of Design there and was then appointed to take charge at Stoke-on-Trent. From there he was asked to become Head Master in Glasgow, but much to the surprise of the local committee, this appointment was not ratified by the Central Committee of Management at the Board of Trade, who appointed his old Director from Somerset House, C H Wilson instead. The two men knew each other well, and the correspondence shows that they sorted this out amicably between themselves, with Wilson taking the senior position and Murdoch working as his deputy. Murdoch continued in that position, later turning down the opportunity to move to become the Head Master in Belfast. He died suddenly at the age of thirty in 1854 and letters from his colleague C H Wilson and from his students reveal how popular he was with both students and staff.

Mary Wilson Murdoch was born on 20th July 1887 and attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1912 to 1915 as an evening student of drawing and painting and life. In the 1915-1915 she was taught by Mr Peter Wylie Davidson who was the assistant master of decorative art. Murdoch's occupation was as a school teacher. Her registered address was Alexandra Park Street. Murdoch graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Master of Arts degree in 1910.

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Sources: The University of Glasgow Story: http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk.

Stephen Murdoch was born on 15th May 1895. Murdoch, a patternmaker, attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1915 as an evening student of drawing and painting. Murdoch received the Haldane evening bursary of one pound and one shilling. His registered address was Earl Street, Scotstoun, Glasgow.

Born in Glasgow at 20 Doune Terrace, Kelvinside North, her father was a Factor and property valuer. Murgatroyd attended Glasgow High School for Girls where she won the Newbury Medal (Dux in Art) in 1919. Later that year she enrolled at the GSA where she studied Drawing and Painting until 1923.

In 1928, she married a fellow GSA student, Thomas Gentleman and had two sons – David, born 1930 and Hugo, born 1935. A talented needlewoman, in later years, she developed a keen interest, and skill, in weaving, producing a variety of textiles including tweeds, cottons and fine wool stoles. She sold these through a local shop, via commission and also regularly helped at a summer residential course on weaving held for the teachers of blind people in Cambridge.

Several members of the Gentleman family went on to pursue successful artistic careers.

Sandy Murphy was born in Ayrshire, Scotland in 1956. He studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1976 until 1980, when he graduated with an honours degree. He completed a teacher training course and taught in Ayrshire schools until 1985. At this point he took the decision to paint professionally, full time.He has had numerous solo exhibitions in galleries across Scotland and England, including Roger Billcliffe Fine Art Gallery, Glasgow, Panter and Hall, London, Waterford Gallery, Hale, Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Thompsons Gallery, London, John Davies Fine Art, Stow-on-the-Wold.He was elected to the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours (RSW) in 1996, the Royal Glasgow Institue of the Fine Arts (RGI) in 2000 and the Paisley Art Institute (PAI) in 2010.