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Born in Hull, the son of a carpenter and wood carver, Grassby moved to Glasgow about 1864 where he established a successful business. A figurative sculptor, mainly active between 1865-1885, he worked from various addresses including 139 Wellington Lane in 1865, Bothwell Street in the 1870s and 175 and 227 West Campbell Street in the 1880s. He exhibited sculptures (mostly with religious themes) at the Royal Glasgow Institute throughout this period. An exception was his last piece exhibited at the RGI in 1884, a bust of William Mair, Ex-Provost of Kinning Park.

There is also a record of a Charles Grassby attending Glasgow School of Art from 1888 to 1890 for modelling classes. He gave his address as 9 Craignethan Gardens, Partick and then 248 West George Street and his occupation as Apprentice Sculptor. He is presumed to be the son of Charles B. Grassby.

Margaret Grant (née Taylor) studied Interior Design at The Glasgow School of Art between 1946-1950. She went on to teach Interior Design at the School between c1953-c1979 while also undertaking private interior design commissions. Margaret passed away on 9th January 2021. Her funeral service was held in Cardross on Wednesday 20th January.

Company: The Glasgow School of Art.

Christopher "Kit" Grant was a commercial art student at the School between 1952 and 1957. He received a travelling scholarship at The Glasgow School of Art in 1957. He also held the following staff posts: Visiting Staff: Commercial & Graphic Art (Typography) 1958/59-1960/61, Visiting Staff: Graphic Design 1961/62-1964/65, Assistant: Graphic Design 1965/66, Supervisor Evening School 1966/67-1970/71.

Charles Grant worked as a Textile Instructor at the Glasgow School of Art. He served in the RAF as a Flying Officer attached to Coastal Command (from April 1940) and was killed on active service in August 1941.

Kenneth Grange trained at Willesden School of Art from 1943–1947, then spent one year in Architectural practice at Arcon. He spent the next two years in National Service Royal Engineers as a Technical Illustrator and from 1950–1956 he was an assistant in Architectural Modernist Practices. He started his private practice from 1956, initially as an Interior and Architectural Designer and then building a comparatively big practice mainly in product design. His principal clients include: Kodak – 30 years as a consultant designing many cameras and equipments including the famous Instamatic; Kenwood – Board appointment and 40 years as the designer of 100 plus domestic appliances; British Rail – the HST 125 and other products; Wilkinson Sword – for 30 years the designer and Board appointment of many shaving, gardening and other products; Ronson; AJ Binns; Manganese Bronze – London Black Cab. He worked extensively in Japan for many major brands, such as Adshel Bus Shelters and street furniture. He founded the design studio Pentagram in 1972 with Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes and Mervyn Kultansky to cover all aspects of design, in particular Graphics, Architecture, Product and general consultancy. He is currently designing products in the form of furniture, architectural fittings and lighting. Kenneth Grange has been awarded numerous honours, awards and prizes for his designs and for services to the design industry, including: Duke of Edinburgh Elegant Design Prize (1963); 10 Design Council Awards from 1963; Chartered Society of Designers Minerva Gold Medal (1966); Royal Designer for Industry (1969); Solo show at the Victoria and Albert Museum (1983); Appointed CBE (1984); Five Honorary Doctorates: RCA, Heriot Watt, De Montfort, Staffs, Open University, 1985 onwards; Master of Royal Designers for Industry (1985); President of Chartered Society Designers (1987); Solo show Tokyo (1989); Board member Globe Theatre (1998); Prince Philip Designers Prize (2003); Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Art (2005 onwards).

Source: [http://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/sir-kenneth-grange/, accessed 6 Aug 2015]

Gordon Graham was a student at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1960s.

Graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone with a Diploma in Art in 1977 and a PGCFE from Dundee University in 2015. Has won a number of awards during her career, including a Johnson Matthey Metal Awards in 1976, Souvenirs of Scotland Award – Design Council 1983- SDA Mid Career Training Award, Scottish Arts Council 1987 – Crafts Fellowship Award to pursue development of inlay techniques. Scottish Arts Council. 2015 and Shortlisted for Creative and Cultural Skills, Jewellery Skills of the Year Award.
Anne was senior lecturer in HND Jewellery and Silversmithing at Glasgow Clyde College 1991-2016, an Advanced Jewellery Tutor at GSA and was Joint Leader of the SQA Quality Development Team of the HND Jewellery & Silversmithing courses in Scotland. She has exhibited widely. both within the UK and overseas.

William Arthur James Govan was born in Biggar, Lanarkshire in 13th January 1895, one of 3 children of Annie Rose Govan (née Newton) and James F Govan, a retired manufacturer. Govan attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1911 to 1912 as a full-time student of drawing and painting. During the First World War, Govan served in the Motor Machine Gun regiment, in which he received 2nd lieutenant commission. After the war he worked as a theatre manager. He immigrated to New York in 1920. Govan became a U.S. citizen in 1944. He died in 30th September 1959, and is buried in Biggar cemetery. Govan is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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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 Gourlay studied at the Glasgow School of Art and was appointed assistant to James Miller c1912. In the mid-1930s he was practising at 134 St Vincent Street.

Francis Carruthers Gould (2 December 1844 - 1925), British caricaturist and political cartoonist, was born in Barnstaple, Devon. He published as F. Carruthers Gould and signed his cartoons FCG.
Although in early youth he showed great love of drawing, he began life in a bank and then joined the London Stock Exchange, where he constantly sketched the members and illustrated important events in the financial world; many of these drawings were reproduced by lithography and published for private circulation. In 1879 he began the regular illustration of the Christmas numbers of Truth, and in 1887 he became a contributor to the Pall Mall Gazette, transferring his allegiance to the Westminster Gazette on its foundation and subsequently acting as assistant editor.
Among his independent publications are Who killed Cock Robin? (1897), Tales told in the Zoo (1900), two volumes of Froissart's Modern Chronicles, told and pictured by FC Gould (1902 and 1903), and Picture Politics—a periodical reprint of his Westminster Gazette cartoons, one of the most noteworthy implements of political warfare in the armoury of the Liberal Party. With Sir Wilfrid Lawson he published Cartoons in Rhyme and Line (1905). Frequently grafting his ideas onto subjects taken freely from Uncle Remus, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and the works of Dickens and Shakespeare, Gould used these literary vehicles with extraordinary dexterity and point, but with a satire that was not unkind and with a vigour from which bitterness, virulence and cynicism were notably absent. He was knighted in 1906. Unpublished manuscripts and biographical material are in the House of Commons Library historical collections, kept in the House of Lords Record Office. Carruthers Gould was responsible for designing 11 Toby jugs of World War I political and military figures between 1915 and 1920.

Isobel [Isabella] Turner Maxwell Goudie was born in Stirling on the 25th of March 1903. She was the younger daughter of Andrew Goudie, Stirling Burgh Surveyor, and Helen Goudie. Turner was her grandmother's surname, Maxwell her mother's. She attended Stirling High School where she won a prize for an essay from SSPCA in 1915 and prizes in needlework and the history of needlework in 1917.

She studied at The Glasgow School of Art, gaining a Diploma in stained glass in 1924 (Scotsman 15.7.24). She also won a "Maintenance Scholarship" of £66, which was a lot in 1924. The previous year she had won a minor travelling bursary of £10. In 1925 she got a Diploma in design and decorative art. (Scotsman 30.3.25)

She designed some windows for Guthrie & Wells after she left college (eg. Possilpark, 1926; the church has now been demolished and the window apparently lost).

She went to Dublin where she worked for Joshua Clarke & Sons, designing and cartooning windows for Cahir under the instruction of Harry Clarke (the books say Cahir windows date to 1925, but Clarke's letter offering her employment is dated 1928); designing and cartooning windows for Carrickmacross (windows dated in books 1926 - 8) under the instruction of H Clarke; cartooning and selecting glass for H Clarke windows for Nuneaton (1929). She was originally offered a 3 month-trial period. She doesn't seem to have stayed beyond that.

In 1929 she was Highly Commended in the Exhibition of Industrial Designs, the annual competition organised by the Royal Society of Arts in London, for her "Design for a Staircase Window in a Modern Departmental Store". Her address was given as 4 Royal Gardens, Stirling, her parents' address. At that time, she exhibited designs at the Smith Institute, Stirling, as a local artist.

She and two friends (Helen Munro and Margaret Foggie) had an exhibition of crafts that December in Queen Street, Edinburgh; it seems she had moved to Edinburgh by this time. She showed stained glass lamps and perhaps pottery since she also potted "A slightly Bohemian air about the studio adds to the attraction, and you may delve happily for long enough among intriguing oddments on the tables" the Scotsman, 11.12.29.

Over the next decade and a half, she worked in Edinburgh on several stained glass windows, listed below.

In 1933 she was offering "Classes in design and craftwork" including; Pottery, Painting, Embroidery, Leather Work, Painted Wood, Lino Cuts, &c" at 56 Queen Street.

Also in 1933, John Duncan wrote to the Scotsman acknowledging the help she had given him with his window for Morningside. He also mentioned that it was leaded up by Willie Blair in Margaret Chilton's studio.

In 1935, she exhibited "interesting stained glass work" at RSA, according to the Scotsman, 29.6.35. Several of the designs for her windows were shown at RSA over several years. She was active in the Society of Scottish Artists, being a member of the Hanging Committee for their exhibition of 1936 and frequently displaying her own work at their exhibitions.

In 1938 the Scotsman remarked that she was at work on a window for the Empire Exhibition Church of Scotland exhibit; one of a series by different artists on the theme of the life of Christ.

Her letter to Joshua Clarke Studio in 1930 has her address as 45 Queen Street, the 1942 phone directory has her at 50 Queen Street, the same address as Helen Munro. She also apparently sometimes worked from the studio of Chilton and Kemp.

She gave several talks on stained glass, including one in 1938 when she made a plea for new exciting responses to the new architecture. She gave a talk on stained glass to the Edinburgh Soroptimists in 1940. During it, she not only showed cartoons of her own work but brought along some examples of small autonomous panels; there is no record of what happened to any of them. In 1943, Goudie was also known to be in touch with Irish stained glass artist Wilhelmina Geddes, who was one of the most important figures in the Irish Arts and Crafts movement and also the British stained glass revival of the 20th century (see "Wilhelmina Geddes – Life and Work" by Nicola Gordon Bowe).

She married Basil Yates, Edinburgh University lecturer in July 1946, in St Giles High Church, Edinburgh; there didn't seem to be any further records of stained glass by her after this until Royal Scottish Museum found 2 cartoons for windows in Kinghorn, 1947, and discovered the payments for them went to Mrs Yates.

Not long after their marriage, they moved to England. Isobel Goudie died in Liverpool in December 1977.

[u]Windows Designed by Goudie[/u]; "Church of the Holy Rood" (Carnoustie 1932), "Abbey", (Dunfermline 1933), St Peter's Church (Edinburgh 1935), Parish Church (Fern 1934), "Possilpark Church" (Glasgow 1926) Goudie (Des); Guthrie & Wells (Fec) Building demolished), "Rockvilla Church" (Glasgow), "Ness Bank Church" (Inverness 1931), "St Leonard's" (Kinghorn 1939 and 1947, latter as Mrs Yates), "Old Church" (Maybole 1946), "Dalziel High Church" (Motherwell 1940),[i] "[/i]South Church" (Motherwell 1940), "St John's Kirk" (Perth 1935), "Allan Park South Church" (Stirling 1937), "Holy Trinity Church" (Stirling c1937 Goudie (Des); Chilton & Kemp (Fec) ), "Tain Parish Church" (Tain), "Glasgow, Empire Exhibition, Church of Scotland" (Glasgow 1938, lost), The Seasons hall window"(1928) and various autonomous panels.

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Goudie was born in the Renfrewshire town of Paisley in 1933. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art under William Armour, David Donaldson and Benno Schotz. For many years he was a tutor at the school, before dedicating himself to his own studio work.

As a portraitist his sitters included Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay of Clashfern, Billy Connolly and a host of other figures drawn from the worlds of politics, commerce and entertainment. Although he achieved great renown as a portrait painter Alexander Goudie distinguished himself in a range of other creative spheres.

Amongst his best known works are a series of paintings he produced illustrating Robert Burns' "Tam O'Shanter" (Rozelle House, Alloway, Ayrshire) and the decoration of the interior of the Brittany Ferries Flagship, ‘Bretagne’.

One of his sons, Lachlan Goudie, is also an artist and TV presenter.

Gorman studied at GSA from 1949-1953 graduating with a Diploma in Drawing and Painting. His wife, Fiona Gorman (nee Ure), was also a fellow student.

Born in 1937, in Kirkwall, Orkney, Ola Gorie studied at Grays School of Art in Aberdeen, from where she graduated in 1960. On her return to Orkney where she set up her studio, three jewellery shops in Kirkwall agreed to sell her designs. When she took over her own shop, success came quickly. Her early designs, the first to be originated in Orkney since Viking times, drew heavily on Orkney's Norse Heritage featuring images such as the Maes Howe Dragon, inspired by Viking graffiti in a Neolithic tomb. Her jewellery found quick acceptance both locally and, by the end of the sixties, across the country. Commissions for one-off pieces came from The Queen Mother, Liberty, the British Museuem and the House of Commons among others.
By the time of her retirement from business, in 1997, Ola Gorie employed as many as 55 staff, and her jewellery was exported around the world. The business is now run, on a smaller scale, by Ola Gorie's daughter, textile designer Ingrid Tait, and operates out of the same premises the family business has occupied since 1859.
Ola Gorie was awarded an MBE in 1999.

Painter in oil of landscape and topographical subjects. Lived in Edinburgh before moving to Leith, Scotland. Exhibited RSA 1834-1841.

Painter of landscapes in oil and watercolour. Working in Edinburgh in 1836 when he exhibited "Tower at Craigmillar Castle" at the RA. Latterly at Nairn from where he exhibited at the RSA.

Scottish video and installation artist. Gordon was born in Glasgow and studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1984-1988 and later at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, from 1988-1990. His work is often based on a disruption of perception; by making his audience aware of their own fugitive subjectivity, he questions how we give meaning to our experience of things. Gordon was the 1996 winner of the Turner Prize, and in 1997 he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale. He lives and work in Berlin.

Anna Gordon graduated from Edinburgh College of Art BA(Hons) Design in 1993 and went on to complete a PG Diploma. She worked for Habitat as a freelance designer while artist in residence at Edinburgh School of Art (1994-1996) and lectured at Edinburgh from 1994 to 2001. From 2001 to 2008 she was a lecturer at Glasgow School of Art, becoming head of Department and Programme Leader in 2008. Recipient of many awards, her work can be found in major public collections including the Royal Museum of Scotland, the Crafts Council, London, Goldsmiths Hall and the V&A.

Alex Gordon attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1905 to 1911 as a full time student. According to the GSA student records, he began his studies when he was only 14, placing his date of birth to around 1891. During the First World War, Gordon served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders battalion. The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture lists an Alex Gordon who was an oil and watercolour painter of rustic interiors and genre from Gourock and Glasgow, a possible match with our records which show he lived in Gourock whilst studying. He exhibited at RA(1), RSA(3), RSW(2), RCA(2), and GI(1) and was active between 1905 and 1914. Gordon is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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

John Goodhall was a Drawing and Painting student who graduated from GSA in 1963.

Dip.Ind. Design (London), A.S.I.A.D. Jimmy Goodchild studied at the Central School in London after WW2 and was taught by Douglas Scott who had worked for Raymond Loewy, a founding father of the discipline (in the USA). Goodchild worked at The Glasgow School of Art from the 1950s to the 1980s. He was Assistant: Design & Crafts (Industrial Design) 1950/51; Lecturer: Design (Product Design) 1978/79; Visiting Lecturer: First Year Studies 1980-82. Goodchild, who had a long association with the Industrial and Product Design departments, retired in 1982. It’s understood that the Industrial Design course began with Goodchild’s appointment in 1950. He taught GSA Director Dugald Cameron.

Graduating with a Diploma in Dramatic Art from RSAMD in 1975, Gollings went on to study for a BA(Hons) in Design, and graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2001. In the same year, she won the Richard Hubbard Arroll Memorial Prize. She also received a Precious Metal Bursary from the Goldsmiths Company in 2000.

Len Goetzee is a queer artist living and working in Glasgow. Through a trans methodology of collapse and dispossession they dismantle delineations between music, voice and the written word to excavate a past enmeshed with the non-human and the more than human. Binaries breakdown and temporalities become twisted; an anti-propulsive practise reversing into queer resistance and into old futures.

Recent performances: Academy Late, New Contemporaries. RSA (2023); A Very Heavenly Social, Dissenter Space. (2023); New Contemporaries. RSA (2023); Cabbage Arts, French Street Studios (2022); GSA Postgraduate Show, Glasgow School of Art (2022); Baked Beans on the Doorstep, Old Hairdressers (2022); Strewn Taboos, Barnes Garage, GSA (2022); Tête-à-tête, Stereo (2021)
Education: MLITT Fine Art Practice, Glasgow School of Art (2022); BA(Hons) First Class Honours, Duncan and Jordanstone College of Art and Design (2021).
Awards: RSA Friend’s Award (2023); Chair’s Medal, Glasgow School of Art (2022); DCA Prize (2021); RSA New Contemporaries (2021); Woooosh Portrait Prize (2021)

Briony Godivala is a Glasgow School of Art graduate of 2023, currently living and working in Glasgow. Godivala’s work ranges from performance, video, new technology and social exploration into participation. Previously focusing on activism regarding the climate crisis, identity and feminism, these themes still remain true in new work - revealed through the performances in situ and often end up on-going or unresolved. Godivala won the Undergraduate Chairman’s Medal for Fine Art at GSA graduation 2023 and also spent a term in New York on a competitive study abroad program at the Pratt Institute 2021. Godivala has also organised and been involved in exhibitions such as the Rooftop Exhibition 2022 at the Urban Offices rooftop, as well as organising an exhibition and video screening night at GSA for students. See more at www.brionygodivala.com or @brionygodivala.

Samantha Goates studied Embroidered and Woven Textile Design at The Glasgow School of Art c. 1990.
She worked in Australia as a textile designer for twenty years, and after returning to Scotland in 2008 set up her own weaving studio in Buckie called "Woven in the Bone".

William Edward Glover was born in Glasgow on 29th of May 1899, one of 2 children of Annie (née Jardine) and William Francis Glover, a Property Master at the Royalty Theatre in Glasgow. Annie's father, Edward Jardine, was a sculptor and William Edward's grandfather on his father's side was a scenic artist, a career William Edward was eventually to follow. William Edward Glover commenced his studies at The Glasgow School of Art in 1917 as a part-time student taking classes in life drawing. His occupation is listed as a glass painter at this time but the following session, 1917-18, he is noted as an apprentice electrician. William joined the British Royal Air Force on 7th October 1918, just over a month before the war ended on 11th November 1918. His service record records a young man of only 19, 5 foot 6 ½inches tall with grey eyes and a fresh complexion. After the war, he returned briefly to The Glasgow School of Art for the 1920-21 session, still as a part time student taking classes in drawing and painting. In 1923, when he was 24, he married Catherine Fitzpatrick, a music hall artist, when he was working as a scenic artist. He died in Cupar, Fife in 1962. William E. Glover 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 ; The National Archives: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk; Find My Past: http://search.findmypast.co.uk

Evelyn Glendinning (appears in the Register as Clendinnig), born 15 June 1894, enrolled as an evening student in 1918 in the Drawing and Painting section. She was also listed as studying metalwork. The following year she returned to the School, taking the same course, but also enrolling for afternoon classes. Her address was 138 Darnley Street, Pollokshields. Evelyn was the daughter of Thomas and Minnie, who were both born in Ireland, as were their five older children : Leonora, Henrietta, Thomas, William and Lachlan. Evelyn and her younger sister Elspeth completed the family. At the time of the 1901 census, the family lived at 349 Pollokshaws Road. Thomas senior was an Insurance Collector and Evelyn's two eldest sisters were working as clerkesses in a Wholesale Grocery business. The family obviously moved to Darnley Street before Evelyn started at the School of Art, and according to the 1920 Electoral roll, several members were still there - Thomas (probably Thomas junior), Minnie, Lachlan, Evelyn and 'Elsie' (Elspeth).

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William Riddell Glen was born c1885 in Glasgow, to Maggie Glen (née Riddell) and James Glen, a grocer's shopman. Glen won a studentship to The Glasgow School of Art, where he studied part-time in architecture from 1900 to 1905, taking on an architectural apprenticeship at the same time. He began an independent practice in Glasgow in 1912. During the First World War, Glen served as a Lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry, where he won a Military Cross. After the war, he worked as an architect in Glasgow, designing multiple cinemas around Scotland. His expertise won him a position as Architect to Associated British Cinemas Ltd, and he moved to London to fulfil this role. He retired early and died in 1950 after a short illness. William Riddell Glen 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 Dictionary of Scottish Architects: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk.

Alexander Graham Glen was born on 11 May 1891. He studied architecture at The Glasgow School of Art from 1907 to 1914 under M Bourdon and Alexander McGibbon. From 1907 he served his articles with William Gardner Rowan and from 1911 he was employed as a draughtsman with Alexander McInnes Gardner and latterly Alexander Nisbet Paterson. In 1915 he was called up for active service. Upon demobilisation in April 1919 he joined the practice of Gardner & Crawley. Glen was a member of the Glasgow Institute of Architects and was elected ARIBA in the mid 1920s. In 1926 he married Mary Glen, who later died in childbirth. He retired by 1960, moving to the Isle of Arran with Marguerite Shields Benson, whom he married in 1943. In 1950 Glen became Deacon of the Guild of Skinners and Glovers, and in 1961 Preses (president) of the Grand Antiquity Society. His grandfather Alexander Burns Glen had been a glover and cap maker in Glasgow, and was also involved in the Guild. Glen is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour. He also appears on the Glasgow Institute of Architects Roll of Honour and served as Private in the 6th Battalion Highland Light Infantry (Student).

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

Charles William Glass was born in Pollokshields, Glasgow on 22nd April 1892 to Olivia Reid (née Moore) and Robert Laidlaw Glass, a letterpress printer and publisher. Glass attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1909 to 1914 as a part time student of Architecture. During the First World War, Glass served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders battalion. A Charles Wilson Glass is noted on the Dictionary of Scottish Architects website and it is possible that this

Source relates to our records. The information provided tells us that Glass was articled to Bryden & Robertson of Glasgow from 1909 to 1913 whilst a student of The Glasgow School of Art, and in 1914 he spent six months as draughtsman to Bryden & Robertson before moving to H M Office of Works. Only three months after working, his new career was interrupted by military service. Glass was posted to Belgium, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Serbia and Bulgaria. After the war in 1919 he resumed his employment with the Office of Works, this time as Assistant Architect in the Chinese office. He transferred to a similar post in the London office in 1925 and passed the Special Examination at the RIBA in December the following year. He was admitted ARIBA on 28th March 1927, his proposers being James Cumming Wynnes, Frederick Chatterton and John Hatton Markham. At that time, Glass was still working in the London Office of Works, and was living in Sandy Lane, Cheam, Surrey. A Charles W. Glass is noted to have died in March 1964 in Bermondsey, London. Charles W. Glass 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://home.ancestry.co.uk/, Dictionary of Scottish Architects: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/index.php

Theatre productions have been prominent at the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, since the production of Masques by Headmaster Fra Newbery in the early 1900s which were designed, costumed and enacted by staff and students of the GSA.
A Dramatic Club started in 1922 with productions of St. George & the Dragon and a Mummer's Play (the earliest extant programme is from 1925), and was lead by a group of students and staff, notably Dorothy Carleton Smythe. In 1928 they proclaimed their objectives in the programme:
i. To produce plays of Artistic interest to students and Artists
ii. To promote the study of the Art of Theatre
iii. To promote by performance and readings of plays the study of Dramatic Literature
This Dramatic Club produced two or three plays a year until 1934. Many members of the group were also interested in cine-film and active in the Kinecraft Society. Cast lists for 1931 and 1934 respectively, include Alexander MacKendrick (the director of Whisky Galore) and Norman McLaren (animator and film maker).
The plays were usually staged in the Lecture Theatre in the Mackintosh Building, although after 1930 some were put on in the Assembly Hall at 168 Renfrew Street. The group was also renowned for its displays of classical drapery, which could include up to 40 students.
The Dramatic Club was re-established in the 1957-58 session, and in 1958 presented three one-act plays. This "rough and ready effort" led to a general resurgence of interest and for the next 20 years a play was produced every session. H. Jefferson Barnes (Registrar at the time and Director of the GSA 1694-1980 ) was the Stage Director in the three productions of 1960-1962 and Stage Manager in 1963. Plays were performed in the Mackintosh Lecture Theatre, the Assembly Hall, the Glasgow Concert Hall, Jordanhill College of Education and in Edinburgh . The Dramatic Club was also known as the Dramatic Society, the Dramatic Section, the Amateur Dramatic Society and the Drama Club.

The daughter of a wallpaper manufacturer, Lizzie attended the GSA from 1883 - 1892, winning numerous local and national competitions during her Art School career. Her most significant awards were a silver medal in National Competition in 1889 for her designs for wall paper, and in the same year, the Owen Jones medal and prize in National Competition. Two years later in 1891 she won the Queens Prize in National Competition for a carpet design. Obviously am able student and gifted designer, she was given free Studendship from 1889 -1891.
Her father worked for Brown & McLaren, Paperhangings manufacturer, of 98 Stirling Road. Their factory was on Catherine Lane.

Margaret Gilmour was born in Glasgow, the daughter of a local businessman. She attended the GSA from 1878 to 1880 and is often referred to in parallel with her sister Mary, who also attended at Glasgow and following that, art school in London. Together with a third sister, in 1893, they established The Gilmour Studio at 179 West George Street. This ‘Sister Studio’ was a very successful business which operated for about 50 years. They won local commissions, produced items for sale and taught a range of crafts including repoussé metalwork, enamelling, leatherwork, embroidery, painting, ceramic painting and wood carving. Margaret’s output appears to have been prolific, predominantly in metalware of a high quality, in brass, white metal and sometimes copper.

The Gilmour Studio produced an enormous range of decorative metalware for the home including wall plaques, jardinières, clock faces, candle sconces, trays, mirrors, lamps, desk and dressing table sets. Glasgow Style motifs were generally used in their designs as were Celtic entrelacs, sometimes with enamel roundels. Margaret exhibited at the Glasgow International Exhibition in 1901. Very little information or research on her is available.

Gilmour was a ceramicist. She studied ceramics at The Glasgow School of Art and graduated in 1958.

John Gilligan was an assistant engineer at Glasgow School of Art from 1906 to 1915, and a janitor from 1920 to 1925. He appears on Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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John Gillespie was born in Kirkgunzeon, Kirkcudbright, on the 10th of April 1897, one of 2 children of Isabella and Charles Gillespie, a shepherd, and his sister was called Mary. He attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1916-1917 as an evening student of drawing and painting. He registered to continue his studies for 1917-1918, however was unable to attend as he enlisted into the 77th Training Reserve Battalion. In 1918 he was discharged from service, as he had a previous injury which had been aggravated by service. He had first attempted to enlist in 1915 but was rejected due to this knee injury, caused by an accident with a motor car while he was cycling. After the war, he continued his studies at The Glasgow School of Art, as well as studying at the Royal Technical College; taking an evening class in architecture at GSA in 1918-1920, and then returning as a day student from 1922-1923, before becoming an evening, and then afternoon student of architecture from 1923-1925. From 1924-25 he was the president of The Glasgow School of Architecture Club and in 1927 was admitted into the Society of Architects (LRIBA). In 1938, after working there for several years, he became the Chief Assistant to the Director of Housing at the Greenock Corporation, and then became the Principal Architectural Assistant. At the same time he was teaching building construction for the Lanarkshire Education Authority. Gillespie contributed verse poetry to several periodicals, including a booklet titled 'The Heatherland' which was sold in aid of the Greenock Spitfire Fund during the Second World War. He was a Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, the Society of Antiquaries in Scotland, and the Royal Society of Arts. Gillespie married Elizabeth Richmond Gallacher in 1951. He died of cardiac failure on the 25 March, 1957 at the age of 59. Gillespie 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: http://www.ancestry.com

Dugald Gillespie was awarded a Diploma in Modelling and Sculpture from the GSA in 1937. He was also awarded the John Keppie Scholarship in Sculpture
(£100) the same year. His Diploma was endorsed in 1938 after successfully completing a course of post-diploma study.
He contributed two of the figures on the South African pavilion for the 1938 Empire Exhibition and a bust of Jack Raymond (Glasgow entertainer) c1940. He exhibited at both the RSA and RGIFA regularly from the late 1930s to mid 1940s.

Secretary of Bonnybridge Art Classes.

Rebecca Gill studied Painting and Printmaking at The Glasgow School of Art and graduated in 2019. In 2019 she won the Chairman's Medal.

Provincial silversmith, believed to have been active in Aberdeen between 1783 and 1825

James Ritchie Gilfillan, from Saltcoats, was born on 22nd December 1896, son of Margaret and John Gilfillan, a house painter. Gilfillan attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1919 to 1923. During the First World War, Gilfillan served as a Private for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders battalion from 1914. After the war, he worked as an artist, painting still life from his Ayrshire home. He married Janet Drummond Hart Knox on 15th July 1925 in Ardrossan. One of his paintings, Ferry off the Antrim Coast is held at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre (GMRC). He died in Ayr in 1968, aged 72. James Gilfillan is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: the Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture by Peter J M McEwan; Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk; BBC: Your Paintings http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/ferry-off-the-antrim-coast-84107

There are two entries for an Alex Gilchrist in the student registers of The Glasgow School of Art. Both entries record "Alexander P. Gilchrist" who studied painting and printmaking. There are two separate entries of Alex Gilchrist on the Roll of Honour, of which one of these students, a Captain, is noted to have fallen in the war, the other, a Corporal, did not fall. It is possible that this could be a mistake on the Roll of Honour. Alexander Paterson Gilchrist was born in Glasgow on the 2nd of July 1894 to Elizabeth Gilchrist (née Paterson) and Frederick Duckworth Gilchrist, a restaurant cook. Gilchrist attended The Glasgow School of Art on semesters 1914 to 1915 as a part time student of drawing and painting. He is noted to have resigned from his place on the course to serve in the war. An Alex P. Gilchrist later appears on the student registers as a full time student of drawing and painting from 1924 to 1925. It is unclear whether this entry notes the same student or two similar students. An Alex Gilchrist recorded as a Colour Sergeant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 9th battalion. During the First World War, an Alex Gilchrist served as a Corporal in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1/9th battalion. The Mitchell Evening Times Roll of Honour 1914-1915 notes that a Sergeant Alex Gilchrist from Bonhill, part of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1/9th battalion, was wounded in battle on the 19th of May 1915. In 1932, an Alexander Paterson Gilchrist was recorded as living in St Pancras, London, though he may not be the GSA student. Alexander Paterson Gilchrist was recorded as an outward passenger on a ship called the Empire Abercorn to Australia from Liverpool on the 7th February, 1946. An Alexander Paterson Gilchrist died in Bournemouth in March 1981, aged 86, though it is unclear if this is a match for GSA's Roll of Honour. Gilchrist 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/;The National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/; Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.com; Otago Daily Times, Issue 16923, 8th February 1917, Page 6: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=ODT19170208.2.56; The Evening Times Roll of Honour 1914-1915: http://www.glasgowfamilyhistory.org.uk/Documents/ETRollofHonour191415.pdf

There are two entries for an Alex Gilchrist in the student registers of The Glasgow School of Art. Both entries record "Alexander P. Gilchrist" who studied painting and printmaking. There are two separate entries of Alex Gilchrist on the Roll of Honour, of which one of these students, a Captain, is noted to have fallen in the war, the other, a Corporal, did not fall. It is possible that this could be a mistake on the Roll of Honour. Alexander Paterson Gilchrist was born in Glasgow on the 2nd of July 1894 to Elizabeth Gilchrist (née Paterson) and Frederick Duckworth Gilchrist, a restaurant cook. Gilchrist attended The Glasgow School of Art on semesters 1914 to 1915 as a part time student of drawing and painting. He is noted to have resigned from his place on the course to serve in the war. An Alex P. Gilchrist later appears on the student registers as a full time student of drawing and painting from 1924 to 1925. It is unclear whether this entry notes the same student or two similar students. An Alex Gilchrist recorded as a Colour Sergeant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 9th battalion. During the First World War, an Alex Gilchrist served as a Corporal in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1/9th battalion. The Mitchell Evening Times Roll of Honour 1914-1915 notes that a Sergeant Alex Gilchrist from Bonhill, part of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1/9th battalion, was wounded in battle on the 19th of May 1915. In 1932, an Alexander Paterson Gilchrist was recorded as living in St Pancras, London, though he may not be the GSA student. Alexander Paterson Gilchrist was recorded as an outward passenger on a ship called the Empire Abercorn to Australia from Liverpool on the 7th February, 1946. An Alexander Paterson Gilchrist died in Bournemouth in March 1981, aged 86, though it is unclear if this is a match for GSA's Roll of Honour. Gilchrist 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/;The National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/; Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.com; Otago Daily Times, Issue 16923, 8th February 1917, Page 6: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=ODT19170208.2.56; The Evening Times Roll of Honour 1914-1915: http://www.glasgowfamilyhistory.org.uk/Documents/ETRollofHonour191415.pdf

Grandson of namesake, Walter Gilbert, who founded Bromsgrove School of Applied Art, Wally describes himself as an Applied Artist. He is a jeweller and silversmith who is also interested large scale metalwork and used his 2001 QEST Scholarship to further his studies in Canberra, Australia. This led to him to working in an iron and then a bronze foundry in the United States, giving him experience to fulfill commissions in architectural metalwork. He created a gated bronze aumbry for St. David’s Cathedral, decorative cast iron roof beams for a listed building and aluminium road & rail bridge parapets, amongst other projects.
Gilbert trained at West Sussex School of Art and Chelsea College of Art. His silversmithing has earned him a number of awards, and can be found in the V&A and many other international public and private collections. His numerous commissions include a mace for Hereford Cathedral and the the De Beers Diamond trophy for Ascot 2000. In 1999, he was made a Freeman of The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths.

Robert Gibson was born on the 11th of November 1892, one of 9 children (siblings Elizabeth, Christina, William H, Mary Buchanan, Janet F, George J and John A W, as well as James Mcabe, an illegitimate half-brother) of Margaret Sawers Gibson (née Mcabe) and James, a coal-miner. Gibson attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1910 to 1917 as an evening student of drawing and painting and life drawing. He was presumably exempt from military service during this period because he was working as a coal-miner, but in 1918 his registration for that year at The Glasgow School of Art was cancelled as he was serving in the army, as a 2nd Lieutenant in The Scottish Rifles. Gibson 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

Jessie Bayne Gibson was born in Blythswood, Glasgow in 1898 to Jessie Gibson and John Gibson, a picture frame gilder. She died in West Lothian in 1981. Gibson studied drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1920. During this time she served as a Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) nurse in the First World War. She is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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