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Ann Wachsmuth graduated in Fine Art from The Glasgow School of Art in 2017. In 2017 she was awarded the Chairman's Medal for Fine Art.

Winifred or Winnifred Vynne, born 9 July 1896, attended evening classes in Painting and Drawing at The Glasgow School of Art for three years.

She started classes in 1917-18 when she was 21. She lived at Muirend Gardens and her occupation is listed as Designer. She is part of a group of students described as "Selected students from the Continuation Classes."

Continuation Classes were offered to school students under an agreement between The Glasgow School of Art and local school boards across the city and outlying areas. If a student was successful in the Continuation Classes they had the opportunity to go on to further study at The Glasgow School of Art.

Continuation Classes students were eligible for bursaries and in 1917 she received a bursary of £1 and 1shilling from The Haldane Trust.

In 1918-19 and 1919-20 her occupation is listed as Tracer. It is likely that she also received support from The Haldane Trust in 1918-19 but she is listed in the Prospectus (1919-20) as Winifred Wynne.

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Leon De Vriendt, born 11 July 1896, only attended for one year in 1914 to 1915. We don't know what classes he took.

He had a Glasgow address at Knowe Terrace in Pollokshields but also an address in Rue de Ous, in Bruges, Belgium.

It is assumed, though this has not been verified, that he could be one of the thousands of people who fled from Belgium to Glasgow at the start of the First World War.

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C F A Voysey was an English architect and furniture and textile designer. His early work was as a designer of wallpaper, fabrics and furnishings in an Arts and Crafts style but he is renowned as the architect of several country houses. Voysey corresponded with Francis Newbery, Director of the Art School 1885-1918.

John Harold Westgarth Voelcker was a British architect and designer. He was the first Professor of Architecture at the University of Glasgow and also appointed to supervise the Department of Architecture at GSA.

Born in Preston, Lancashire. He studied at the Architectural Association and then worked in Milan, later returning to London, where he became a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

In the early 1950s Voelcker was a member of Team 10, dominated by Peter and Alison Smithson, but later split with the group. In 1954 he moved to Kent where he developed a country practice creating designs for farm improvements, school and office buildings. He also worked on houses and housing schemes for local authorities and businesses. At the same time he taught in various capacities concerning planning and public design, including work at the AA School and Cambridge University. He undertook research with Ove Arup and Partners and was a member of the MARS Group of Urban Planners and a founder member of Team X working on urban planning and design.

In 1956 Voelcker collaborated with Richard Hamilton and John McHale on the seminal This is Tomorrow exhibition, for which Voelcker designed the structure of their part of the exhibition.

In 1958 a dispute with local planning authorities over a building designed for the jazz musician Humphrey Lyttelton led to Voelcker and Lyttelton successfully challenging the authorities. The building was a dramatic U-shaped structure and included a "splendidly witty" pop art mural by McHale. As a result of their defence of creative architecture Voelcker and Lyttelton were named the Architect's Journal's men of the year.

In 1965 he became director of Senior Studies at the AA School. Three years later in 1969 Voelcker became Professor of Architecture at Glasgow. He held the position until his early death.

Vile, originally from Devon, studied at the Mackintosh School of Architecture for undergrad & postgrad. He was awarded the Undergraduate Chair Medal for the School of Architecture in 2021. He has worked for Niall McLaughlin Architects, O’Donnell brown Architects, O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects, and OBVd’S Workshop.

He has exhibited as follows:

• ‘Presences’ - Models and installation as part of a team at Niall Mclaughlin
• Exhibited - Venice Biennale 2018, RIBA Jan 2019, RA Summer Exhibition 2019
• RSA Royal Contemporaries 2023 - Work as part of O’Donnell brown Architects Submission

Sister Veronica attended The Glasgow School of Art from Notre Dame Teacher Training College. She came for day classes in drawing and painting for two years from 1918.

Notre Dame Teacher Training College was opened in 1895 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, to train Catholic women as teachers. The building, which included a chapel and accommodation for the trainees, was at 74 Victoria Crescent Road, in Dowanhill, Glasgow. It has now been converted into flats.

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Sources:

• isters of Notre Dame de Namur UK (http://snduk.org/training-colleges/)
• Canmore record for Notre Dame Chapel (https://canmore.org.uk/site/317034/glasgow-dowanhill-74-victoria-crescent-road-notre-dame-training-college-chapel)

Company: The University of Glasgow.

John Mackie Venters, born 23 August 1888, was an apprentice architect when he started Architecture evening classes at The Glasgow School of Art in 1908. He received an Architecture bursary for evening classes from The Haldane Trust.

He lived in Glenburn Street in Port Glasgow. He continued evening classes every year, except one, until 1915 with his tutors including Alexander McGibbon.

From 1910 onwards he is listed as an assistant architect in the GSA Student Registers; according to the Dictionary of Scottish Architects he was working at Stewart, Tough & Alexander in Greenock until November 1910 and then worked at Bryden and Robertson in Glasgow.

In March 1912 he moved to a post in the Caledonian Railway Company Architect's and Engineer's Department in Glasgow.

John Mackie Venters didn't attend classes at The Glasgow School of Art in 1912-13 but returned for two years from 1913 to 1915. By 1914-15 he was living at Radnor Terrace, Sandyford, in Glasgow. In May 1914 he was awarded the School of Architecture Junior Course Certificate.

The Dictionary of Scottish Architects records that he was on First World War service as a topographer and surveyor to the Field Survey Battalion of the Royal Engineers from February 1915 to March 1919, after which he returned to the Caledonian Railway Company.

He moved to another Glasgow architectural firm in 1920, which was also the year he was admitted to the Royal Institute of British Architects. He then took a post in London before emigrating to Shanghai in China in 1923. He was still there in 1931 but later worked in Singapore and by the 1960s had moved to Toronto in Canada.

See more about his career and the firms he worked for on the Dictionary of Scottish Architects @ http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=203548

The medallist Antoine Vechte was a French silversmith, active also in England (London), where he moved to after the Revolution in 1848. He specialised in the Renaissance style. In London he joined Hunt & Roskell. He made virtuoso repoussé work and with that had considerable influence in England, especially as his silver work was reproduced with the Electrotype technique. He retired to France in 1861.

Olive Mary Vaughan, born on 20 August 1893, first attended The Glasgow School of Art for afternoon Drawing and Painting classes in 1910-11. In 1911-12 she came for afternoon classes, this time Drawing and Painting plus Modelling. During these years she was still at the Girls' High School.

Over the next three years (1912-13, 1913-14 and 1914-15) she took day classes in Drawing and Painting. She is listed as receiving the School Certificate for Needlecraft in the 1914-15 prospectus with a grade of "very good". And in 1915-16, her last year as a student, she switched to evening classes in Design.

In January 1915 she helped with the Tea Room at the Belgium Tryst at The Glasgow School of Art. This was a two-day event with exhibitions, music and shows, organised by students to raise funds for Belgians suffering from the impact of the First World War.

Her younger sister, Edith Margery Vaughan also attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1912.

They lived in Cathkin Road in Langside, Glasgow.

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James L Vaughan, born 30 May 1893, attended The Glasgow School of Art for a summer course though we do not know what he studied.

He lived in Woodlands Road in Glasgow.

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Edith Margery Vaughan, born 29 September 1896, attended The Glasgow School of Art for Anatomy and Modelling classes on Wednesday and Friday afternoons in 1912-13. She was one of a group of seven young women, all from the Girls High School, who came for the same classes.

The next year, when still at the Girls High School, she continued studying Anatomy on Tuesday afternoons and Modelling on Friday afternoons.

It seems she didn't attend in 1914-15 but returned in 1915-16 to take evening classes in Design. This time she was enrolled as one of group of nine students from the College of Domestic Science. You can see more about the history of the College of Domestic Science in the Glasgow Caledonian University Archives @ https://archives.gcu.ac.uk/queens-college-glasgow-formerly-glasgow-and-west-of-scotland-college-of-domestic-science-records.

Her elder sister, Olive Mary Vaughan, also attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1910 to 1916.

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John Vass was born on 23 July 1892, so he was 25 years old when he first attended The Glasgow School of Art.

He was a house joiner who took evening classes in Design, specifically wood carving, for two years from 1917 to 1919.

He lived at 7 Baird Street in Govan.

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Leon Van den Houten was a Belgian artist who was born in 1874,

Van den Houten was enrolled at The Glasgow School of Art during the 1915-16 session as a day student. He lived in Mount-sur Marchienne before coming to Glasgow as one of the almost 250,000 Belgian refugees that came to the UK. Van den Houten, before studying at The Glasgow School of Art also studied at the Académie de Châtelet and the Université du Travail, where he would later go on to teach. He is listed on the Glasgow Belgian refugee register from 1914-1920 along with his wife Jeanne Back Van den Houten and his three children.

Whilst studying at The Glasgow School of Art, Houten also taught drawing classes for ladies in Glasgow.

A Belgian Tryst fundraising event was held January 1915 in the Mackintosh Building whilst Houten attended the school. The event took the form of an exhibition with various shows and activities such as a 'Belgian Market', a 'Chamber of Horrors' and a 'Lightning Artist', in order to raise funds for the Red Cross and The Belgian Relief Fund.

During the interwar period, he formed the course of decorative arts at the Universite du Travail in Charleroi Belgium, delivering drawing classes at the institution where he taught for forty years. Houten was clearly a very influential teacher at the school with some of his pupils such as Léon Adam , Gustave Camus , Alphonse Darville , Georges Debroux , Marcel Delmotte , Joseph Gillain , Marthe Guillain , Ben Genaux and Félix van Immerzeel all establishing themselves as well respected artists. He is also considered a pivotal figure and initiator of the art of the Charleroi region of Belgium.

In 1925, Houten participated in the 'Exposition des Art Decoratifs' in Paris. The exposition, which was created by the French Government in order to highlight the new international style as well as promoting a brighter and more optimistic future after The First World War.

Houten is best known for his impressionist landscape paintings of Belgium, Scotland, France and Luxemborg as well as his still lives and portraits. The artist died in 1944 in Belgium at the age of 70.

Sources

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Van_den_Houten

http://www.microsofttranslator.com/bv.aspx?ref=SERP&br=ro&mkt=en-GB&dl=en&lp=FR_EN&a=http%3a%2f%2fwww.galeriedupistoletdor.com%2fgdpo%2fvandenhouten.html

http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-576-269-C

http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/Documents/Family%20History%20and%20Archive%20Docs/Belgian%20Refugees%20Register%20-%201-4,010.pdf

http://www.tabgalerie.be/tableau-vue-de-namur-van-den-houten-leon_detail_6.html

Rose Valentine was born on the 28th of October 1879. She attended Girvan Burgh School and then Ayr Academy where Mr R. Smeaton Douglas was art master. Her school work was mentioned in the Ayrshire Post on the 24th June 1910 when she was part of an exhibition of work by the art department. Valentine attended The Glasgow School of Art for the session 1911 - 1912 when her student number was 461. Her address at this time was care of Mrs Clemens, 28 Bute Terrace, Glasgow. She was an afternoon student and studied design. Her teacher was Ann Macbeth and, judging by artwork left to her family members, it is likely that she studied Bookbinding and Decoration, where the students were taught to tool and decorate leather items such as caskets and portfolios.

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Louis G Valentine is registered as attending for only one year – 1918-19 – at The Glasgow School of Art, athough it is not clear what he studied.

His address was Cassillis (probably Cassillis Road) in Maybole, Ayrshire.

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Finnish silversmith. Exhibited at the Roger Billcliffe Gallery in Glasgow in March 2011. Now believed to be working in Estonia.

Uta is an interior designer who has a passion for shaping the built environment around the needs of the people inhabiting it. Having a love for details, they focus on a range of areas such as the craftsmanship of finishes, creating bespoke pieces and curating the flow of space to fit the activities and the lifestyle of the user. During their degree, they have been heavily researching theories on community spaces, place-making, non-places, third places and expression of identity and culture in interior design.

Their background, outside of education, is in oil and acrylic painting, which helped develop an expertise in colour theory and the way in which colour influences how users experience interiors. Their Undergraduate degree was a great opportunity to explore their interest in cognitive psychology while gaining greater insight into creating harmonious healthcare spaces and intergenerational wellbeing-focused interiors. The result of this research manifested into my final year project: IVANI- Introducing well-being through the interior environment.

During their Masters degree, they have been heavily researching theories on community spaces, place-making, non-places, third places and expression of identity and culture in interior design. Alongside this, they developed an interest in preserving heritage digitally as a form of sharing culture with many generations to come. The research undertaken informed their final project (illustrated report) titled Digi-ER- Speculating on the virtual future of community-led third spaces as a form of preserving heritage through digital artefacts; and exploring methodologies of representation. Uta was awarded the 2024 postgraduate Chair medal for the School of Design.

Allan McClymont Ure was involved with The Glasgow School of Art both as a student and as a member of the governing body.

He started evening classes at The Glasgow School of Art in 1912, when he was in his forties. He continued to take classes, mostly in the evenings, until 1931-32, missing only the years 1917-18 and 1929-30.

An iron founder, he was born on 12 December 1868 and lived in Hamilton Drive in Glasgow. He was connected with Allan Ure & Co which was based at the Springbank Foundry in Keppochhill Road, Cowlairs. You can see more about the company and the patented Ure interior cooker - a combined cooker, fire and water heater designed to look like a fireplace - on The Glasgow Story website @ http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSA00680. The Springbank Foundry closed in 1968.

He is described in The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture as a Glasgow amateur sculptor who created portrait busts who exhibited 10 times at the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art between 1915 and 1933.

Allan Ure served as a bailie, a legal role in local government in Scotland similar to a magistrate or bailiff, until 1925 and was also a Justice of the Peace (JP). He also served on what was then Glasgow Town Council, representing the Cowlairs Ward from 1907 to 1910.

In 1913-14 he was elected by Glasgow Town Council as a Governor of The Glasgow School of Art and continued in that position until 1930-31 when he retired. From 1917-18 he sat on the School and Staff Committee until he retired, and also sat on the Modelling and Sculpture Committee of Assessment for Diplomas, Travelling and Maintenance Scholarships and Bursaries from 1920 until 1932, after he retired.

In 1928-29 Allan Ure made a donation of £25 to the School Extension Fund and in 1932 gave £1 and 1 shilling to William Hamilton, via a subscription to the School of Art Club Prize Scheme.

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Sources:

• The Glasgow Story:Springbank FoundrySources (http://www.theglasgowstory.com/advanced-search/?search=99&what=Springbank+Foundry)
• Wikipedia: Bailie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailie)
• National Library of Scotland (http://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/archive/83686541)
• cottish Post Office Directories

John M Underwood lived in North Claremont Street when he attended The Glasgow School of Art. He was born on 23 March 1899 so would have been 16 years old when he started evening classes in Architecture in 1915. His occupation was architect's apprentice.

He continued classes in 1916-17 but then did not return to The Glasgow School of Art.

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Ruddu Ulas graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2018 with a BA in Fine Art Photography. In 2018, she won the Chairman's Medal, the Essay Prize for the best essay by Schools of Fine Art and Design and the Alice Duncan travel prize.

Morag Tweedie studied Printed Textiles at GSA from 1974, and designed garments for the 1978 fashion show. She was awarded a maintenance scholarship for postgraduate study to Glasgow in session 1977-78.

She went on to be a textiles designer based in London then worked at Orkney College from 1997 for 16 years, latterly as Curriculum Leader in Art and Design. As at July 2017, she is a full-time artist, and runs workshops, some with fellow graduate Anne Ferguson.

Sources: GSA Annual Report 1977-78 GOV/1/10; Morag Tweedie website http://www.moragtweedie.co.uk; Creative Escapes https://tinyurl.com/ybobklqe;

Jewellery Designer and maker based in Salisbury. Also known for her iconic twist vase designed for Wentworth Pewter and made from one sheet of pewter folded into shape, rather than cut and joined.

Believed to be the Richard Turner who was son of Robert Turner of Wolverhampton, bucklemaker. Richard Turner may also have started as a bucklemaker but from street directories from 1802 onwards, he is listed as Silversmith, at 31 St John Square, Clerkenwell where he had a number of apprentices over the years, including his son George in 1808.

Claudia W. Turner (date of birth unknown) attended Saturday afternoon leatherwork classes taught by Peter Wylie Davidson at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1917/18 academic year. Turner was working as a gymnastics instructor at this time.

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Barr Turner was born in Greenock on 27th June 1884, one of five children to Janet (née Kelly) and William Turner, a glazier (journeyman). Turner's four younger siblings included John, William, Catherine and Daniel. Turner attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1904 to 1908 as a part time student and again from 1910 to 1914 as a full time student of drawing and painting. During the First World War, Turner served as a Private in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders battalion as well as the Royal Engineers. After the war, he worked as an artist from around 1919 to 1929. He painted landscapes and exhibited at the Aberdeen Artist's Society three times. Turner died in 1962, aged 78. Turner 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/; the Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture by Peter J M McEwan; Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk

Annie Margaret Turner (born 8th March 1885) began her studies at The Glasgow School of Art when she was just 17 years old. Turner attended the School for 12 years; between 1902 and 1915, with a brief hiatus in the 1905/06 academic year. Turner predominantly attended day classes in drawing and painting as well as design in 1903/04. She attended evening classes in pottery in her final year at the School, which was 1914/15. In 1912 Turner exhibited a painting entitled 'November' at The Royal Glasgow Institute of The Fine Arts, which could be purchased for £5.

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John Turnbull 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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Annie H. Turnbull (born 15th February 1897) attended design evening classes at The Glasgow School of Art in 1915/16. At this time Turnbull was studying domestic science.

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Artist. Student at The Glasgow School of Art (B.A., P.G.Dip.), 1982-1986, P.G.Dip., P.G.C.E. Art, Oxford Brookes University.

Pierre Turin is widely considered the most accomplished Art Deco medalist. He was born in Sucy-en-Brie, France, in 1891 and died in 1968. He attended the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Vernon, Patey and Coutain. In 1920 he won the Grand Prix de Rome, and was made Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in 1936.

Dorothy Tully (born 26th March 1894) attended drawing and painting day classes at The Glasgow School of Art between 1912 and 1917. Tully was convenor of stall no.2 at The Belgian Tryst held at the School in order to raise money for Belgian refugees during World War One.

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Dorothy O Tullis (born 1888, specific date unknown) attended afternoon life classes at The Glasgow School of Art in the academic years 1907/08 an 1913/14. Tullis did not attend the School or study Drawing and Painting as planned in the year 1914/15.

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George Tudhope was born in 1896. He attended The Glasgow School of Art as an evening student of drawing and painting and design during the 1914/15 session. Tudhope left The Glasgow School of Art to attend Skerry's College.

Another George Tudhope (an apprentice architect, born c1869), perhaps a relation of the former, attended The Glasgow School of Art between 1884 and 1889.

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Vladimir  Aleksandrovich Tsivin was born in Lenningrad in 1949.  He graduated from the department of pottery and glassware at the V Muchina Higher School of Arts and Crafts in 1972.  From 1972 to 1976 he worked in Tomsk, Siberia, as chief artist at the Bogashevo Experimental Pottery Factory.In 1975 he joined USSR Artist’s Union, and from 1976 he worked in the Leningrad branch of the Russian Art Fund experimental ceramic workshops.  He still lives and works in St Petersburg.

Agnes Louisa Troup (born 1st February 1876) attended afternoon classes in design at The Glasgow School of Art during the 1914/15 academic session. Troup worked as a teacher of domestic science and resided in Scotstoun in Northwest Glasgow.

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Robert Trotter was a photographer from Dumbarton, near Glasgow who undertook street photography for over a decade.

Thomas Train was born on the 21st December 1890, one of 5 children (siblings Andrew S, William, James S and Amelia H) of Elizabeth and Thomas, a cabinet maker. Train attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1912 to 1915 as a full-time student of drawing and painting. He served during the war, probably with the West Yorkshire regiment as a 2nd Lieutenant. After the war, Train married Vera McConochie in Cardiff on the 1st April 1924 and had 2 children (Thomas and Elspeth Harvey – Thomas died in 1970 while serving as a Chief Officer with the Royal Navy and is buried in Hong Kong), at some point they travelled to Australia for a period, returning to Scotland in 1957. Train died in 1978. Train 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

Lionel Towns (born on the 19th of May 1902) studied drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1916/17 session. Towns was an evening student.

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Fiona Todhunter was a Drawing and Painting student who graduated from GSA with a post-Diploma in 1965.

William Herd Todd was born in Partick, Glasgow in 28th October 1892, one of three children of Margaret Todd (née Thompson) and William Todd, a commercial book keeper. Todd attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1903 to 1907 as a student of drawing and painting. During the First World War, Todd served as a lance corporal in the Highland Light Infantry regiment. He died in action in Belgium on the 15th April 1918. Todd 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.

John Todd (born on the 29th of August 1886) was due to study drawing and painting and design at The Glasgow School of Art as an evening student in 1918/19. Unfortunately, Todd was unable to attend for an unknown reason. He resided in Dennistoun, in the East End of Glasgow, and was employed as a gate porter.

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Albert Ballantine Todd (born on the 15th of May 1901) studied drawing and painting (black and white) at The Glasgow School of Art during the 1918/19 session. Todd was a day student and lived in Langside.

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