Dorothy Shaw resided in Springburn to the North of Glasgow while attending The Glasgow School of Art during the 1918-19 and 1921-22 sessions. She took evening classes in Drawing and Painting while maintain a career as a Tailoress during the day.
The Glasgow School of Art student registration number Dorothy Shaw:
If you have any more information please get in touch
Christine Emily Shaw (nee Cramond) was born 9 June 1921 in Partick, Glasgow, Scotland. She attended Hyndland Secondary School before moving to Milngavie in the early 1930s, where she attended Bearsden Academy. There, her art teacher was William Armour, known to the students as 'Paddy'.
Christine started at the Glasgow School of Art in 1939 and kept a diary from January-December 1940. In it she interspersed records of her day to day activities in the School with descriptions of, and opinions on, fellow students and staff including Carlo Rossi, Joan Eardley, Margot Sandeman, T Willison, Leonard Clegg, Hugh Adam Crawford, W O Hutchinson, Henry Y Alison, Campbell Mackie, Harriet Henson, John Miller, Benno Schotz, Bill Crosbie and others. Visits to Mary and William Armour 's house are well documented as are social activities in Milngavie, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland, and the experience of living in Glasgow during the first year of the Second World War.
Andrew Wilson Shaw was born on the 1st of March 1876. He resided at a variety of addresses in Stepps and Dennistoun to the East of Glasgow while attending classes at The Glasgow School of Art between 1909 and 1912. Shaw undertook daytime and evening classes in Drawing and Painting at the School studying under William E.F. Britten and David F. Wilson. During his studies Shaw maintained a career as an Artist. He received his Diploma in Drawing and Painting at the end of the 1911-12 session. After graduating he went on to be an Art Assistant at Provanside School.
Shaw was part of an exhibition at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1911. Where he exhibited a work titled Ca'in Pirns, that was priced at £5.
The Glasgow School of Art student registration number Andrew Wilson Shaw:
If you have any more information please get in touch
Alan Shaw was born in Ballymoney, N.Ireland and studied textiles at Glasgow School of Art. During his MDes, Alan spent five months working at Coats Viyella where he worked on Stork TCP printers and the initial trialling of the Stork Amethyst production printer. The resulting new knowledge was used to showcase his collection of interior prints. On completion of his MDes Alan took up a post at GSA, compiling technical research for the successful SHEFC funding application. This resulted in the Centre for Advanced Textiles (CAT) being established in 2000.Alan’s role involves collaborative research, textile consultancy and management of the Centre’s commercial activity. His research interests include investigating the role of facilitating designers/makers to integrate digital technology into their practice, helping to address perceptions of the technology and transferring acquired knowledge and skills.Before working at CAT, Alan spent four years with Glasgow textile printing firm Timorous Beasties overseeing print production and finishing. He has lectured at various Scottish colleges and continues to design and produce textiles on a freelance basis.
John Sharpe was born on the 27th of May 1887. Sharp attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1916-19 while residing at the Bellahouston Red Cross Hospital. His home address is listed as The Square, Berwick. During this time he undertook evening classes in drawing and painting, life drawing and life modelling. His career is listed as Artist in our records.
He is sometimes referred to as John Sharp in our records, and he is possibly the John Sharp listed in GSA's Annual Reports who gained his diploma in modelling and sculpture for the 1909-10 session.
The Glasgow School of Art student registration numbers listed for John Sharp are follows:
If you have any more information please get in touch.
Ida Sharpe was born on the 21st of June 1895. She resided at 94 Mill Street, Rutherglen while taking evening classes in Design – Needlework at The Glasgow School of Art during the 1915-16 session. Sharpe maintained a career as a Mantlemaker during her time at The School.
The Glasgow School of Art student registration number Ida Sharpe:
If you have any more information please get in touch.
Graduating in 2019 from the Glasgow School of Art with first class honours, Will went on to take part in the Artist in Residence program at the Glasgow School of Art until spring 2020. He was the 2019 recipient of the Hallmark Studio’s New Designers Award and the Association of Contemporary Jewellers Mark Fenn Award.
Robert Scott West Sharp was born on the 21st of June 1892. He resided at a number of addresses in Anderston to the West of Glasgow City Centre, including on Church Street and Argyle Street, while undertaking evening classes at The Glasgow School of Art between 1909 and 1920. Sharp's studies included classes in Drawing and Painting and Life Drawing. During this time he studied under Charles H. Scott and W. Sommerville Shanks.
Sharp was awarded the prestigious Haldane Trust Bursary (Evening School) for Drawing and Painting during the 1914-15 session worth £2. During the 1917-18 he was once again awarded the Bursary.
Over the course of his studies Sharp was first apprenticed as a Glass Etcher before changing career to become an Electrician in 1916.
Sharp exhibited some work as part of an exhibition hosted by The Royal Glasgow institute of the Fine Arts in 1951. He exhibited a piece called 'Happy Days' priced at £20.
The Glasgow School of Art student registration number Robert Scott West Sharp:
If you have any more information please get in touch.
John McKay Dunlop Sharp was born in Barrhead on the 11th of November 1891, one of four children of Jessie Sharp (née McKay) and James Sharp, an engineer's clerk. Sharp lived at Crossmill farm which was demolished in the late twentieth century to make way for private housing. Sharp attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1910 to 1912 as a part time student of architecture and from 1912 to 1914 as a part time student of drawing and painting. During the First World War, Sharp served as a Sergeant in the Cameron Highlanders 5th battalion. This battalion was formed in August 1914 and landed in Boulogne on the 10th of May 1915. It appears that Sharp could have been part of a Pals Battalion as he attended GSA on the same course and semesters as students such as James Tod, who also fought in this battalion. Sharp was killed in action on the 3rd of May 1917 in France, aged 26. It is possible that he died in the Battle of Arras which took place between the 9the of April and the 16th of June 1916. A phase occurred between the 3rd and the 4th of May 1917 called the Battle of the Scarpe. Sharp is memorialised in Arras. Sharp is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.
If you have any more information, please get in touch.
Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/; Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; The National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/; Lives of the First World War: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/3977251; Commonwealth War Graves Commission: http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1638785/SHARP,%20JOHN; Gazetteer for Scotland: http://www.scottish-places.info/towns/townfirst35284.html; The Long, Long Trail: http://www.1914-1918.net/cameron.htm; http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/battles/battles-of-the-western-front-in-france-and-flanders/the-arras-offensive-1917-battle-of-arras/; Imperial War Museums: http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-pals-battalions-of-the-first-world-war
Mary Jane Shannon was born on the 1st of May 1876. She resided at 7 Whitehaugh Drive Paisley while undertaking evening classes at The Glasgow School of Art during the 1918-1919 session. Shannon maintained a career as a School Teacher while studying at the School.
The Glasgow School of Art student registration number Mary Jane Shannon:
If you have any more information please get in touch.
Shannan was a sculptor, builder's apprentice and architect. He was educated at Glasgow University, and apprenticed to his father, the builder Peter Shannan. Worked as an architect in West Africa and in the USA, then switched to a successful career as a sculptor. He trained at the South Kensington School and in Paris from 1884-1894.
Painter in oil and watercolours of portraits, interiors and still life in a style better suited to oils. Began as a pattern designer with a curtain manufacturer, studying drawing in the evening at Glasgow School of Art under Fra Newbery. Later a member of staff at GSA: Shanks was Assistant Professor (Drawing and Painting) Antique and preparatory life 1910/11; Assistant Professor (Drawing and Painting) Life, head life, portrait and costume model, painting, antique and still life 1913/14 - 1924/25; Lecturer (D&P) Drawing, painting and composition 1925/26 - 1929/30; Drawing & painting (school of Design, Pictorial and Commercial Art) 1930/31; Drawing and Painting (D&P) 1934/35.
Artist in watercolour, pen and ink, mixed media; muralist, designer and teacher, born in Glasgow. He left school to become an apprentice carpet designer for Templeton's, first exhibiting with the firm's art club. After war service Shanks took the diploma course at The Glasgow School of Art. Upon graduating in 1950 he started on a career as a freelance mural painter; was a designer and printer with Edinburgh Weavers' Dovecot Studios for eight years; stage designer with Rutherglen Rep; and teacher at Glasgow School of Art and in schools in the city and in Renfrewshire, where he settled in Kilbarchan. He termed his main occupation as "landscape painter", having been in love with the landscapes of the Western Highlands since his parents took him to the Isle of Skye aged seven. These were portrayed in his Scottish Horizons show at Cyril Gerber Fine Art Glasgow, in 1994, again at Cyril Gerber in 2004, and previously in solo exhibitions throughout Scotland. He was a member of RSW and Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, also exhibiting with RSA, Royal Scottish Society and Glasgow Group.
Margaret Robb Shanks was born on the 16th of August 1894 and resided at Rubislaw, Blairhill, Coatbridge, while completing her studies at The Glasgow School of Art. Shanks was part of a group of girls who started attending classes at the School while still studying at The High School for Girls. More information about the girls who attended and links between the Schools can be found in the following blog post: http://www.gsaarchives.net/2018/02/school-pupils-college-students-story-two-sisters-reveals-gsa-partnerships/
They undertook a variety of classes, with Shanks attending afternoon classes in Anatomy and Modelling during the 1912-13 session. While not all of the girls pursued their studies Shanks stayed at the School until 1919. From 1914-1919 she undertook Drawing and Painting day classes.
The Glasgow School of Art student registration number Margaret Robb Shanks:
If you have any more information please get in touch
Kirsten Shanks studied Painting and Printmaking at The Glasgow School of Art and graduated in 2019. In 2019 she won the W.O. Hutchison Prize.
Shanks, George Ferguson Smellie
George Ferguson Smellie Shanks was born at Partick on 15 May 1898, the son of George Ferguson Smellie Shanks, engine patternmaker and his wife Eliza Jane Borthwick. In July 1915 he began as an articled pupil with Honeyman & Keppie while attending classes in building construction. In September 1916 he started the architecture course at the Glasgow School of Art. However his studies were interrupted when he was called up in World War 1 and from December 1916 to January 1919 he served with HM Forces in the United Kingdom, Palestine and France. After demobilisation he returned to Honeyman & Keppie’ s office and resumed his studies at the Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Technical College. He completed his apprenticeship in January 1921, remaining with Honeyman & Keppie as assistant. In March 1923 he moved to a similar post with Wright & Wylie, being promoted to chief assistant in March 1924. He was awarded his diploma in January 1924 and was elected ARIBA on 5 January 1925, his proposers being Andrew Graham Henderson John Watson and John Keppie. Shanks had travelled widely by the time of his election to Associateship. During the war he had visited France, Italy, Egypt and Palestine. In 1921 he visited Oxford and London, in 1922 Winchester, York & Durham and in 1924 Canterbury and Liverpool. In 1923 he had been awarded the Bowden Travelling Scholarship from the School of Architecture and in 1924 the John Keppie Travelling Scholarship. This enabled him to spend two weeks in Paris and four weeks in Italy in 1925 visiting Genoa, Pisa Lucca, Rome, Naples, Siena, Florence, Bologna, Ravenna, Venice, Vicenza, Verona and Milan. Shanks remained with Wright & Wylie which became Wylie Wright & Wylie in 1928 after Frederick Robert Wylie joined as partner and after Wright withdrew in 1935, Shanks became a partner, the practice title becoming Wylie Shanks & Wylie. By 1939 Shanks had become a Fellow of the Glasgow Institute of Architects and in 1947 FRIBA, proposed by George Arthur Boswall, Andrew Graham Henderson and Thomas Johnston Beveridge. In 1946 Walter Underwood was taken into partnership, but the firm name was not changed to Wylie, Shanks & Underwood until sometime between October 1956 and April 1957. Underwood left in 1960 and the practice title then became Wylie Shanks & Partners. Shanks retired in 1963. He died of heart disease on 2 August 1985 at Crosshouse Hospital, Kilmarnock. He was survived by his wife Jeannie Ritchie Kennedy.
Shanks undertook evening classes in Architecture at the School between 1915 and 1924.
The Glasgow School of Art student registration number George Ferguson Smellie:
If you have any more information please get in touch
Alastair Shanks attended The Glasgow School of Art's courses for Primary Teachers, c1938-1939.
George Shaw Shand was born in 58 King Street Glasgow on 31 Aug 1896, son of Agnes McInnes (née Sheldon) and William Shand, a spirit merchant. Shand attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1913 to 1926 (with breaks in attendance from 1916-1917 and 1923-1925) as a part-time student starting with classes in Drawing and Painting and going on to specialise in Architecture. During his studies his occupation is noted as Apprentice Architect, Architect's Assistant, Architectural Draughtsman and Mechanical Engineer.
During the First World War, Shand served in France as a Private in the 14th Bantam Battalion, of the Highland Light Infantry regiment. Bantam Battalions were formed after August 1914 following the intervention of Alfred Bigland MP, who wrote to Lord Kitchener requesting that new battalions be set up for men under the 5ft 3in (160cm) height restriction.
After the war, Shand returned to The Glasgow School of Art to complete his studies and graduated with a diploma in June 1929. In 1931 Shand was admitted to The Royal Institute of British Architects, following successfully passing his professional examination in Edinburgh the year before. Shand then worked as an architect's apprentice at John Gaff Gillespie and opened his own practice in 1934 at 1 Blythswood Square Glasgow. Latterly towards the end of his life, he resided in the Newton Mearns area. Shand died on the 26th Nov 1976 at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. George S Shand is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.
If you have any more information, please get in touch.
Sources: The Dictionary of Scottish Architects: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk; Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk Ancestry http://www.ancestry.co.uk The Long Long Trail http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/ BBC News Magazine Bantams: The army units for those under 5ft 3in, Tom de Castella [9th Feb 2015], http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31023270
Christina Eadie Shand was born on the 27th of August 1897 and resided at Glenburn Villa, Luggiebank, Cumbernauld while completing her studies at The Glasgow School of Art. Shand undertook afternoon classes in Drawing and Painting, Design and Fashion Plate between 1914 and 1917. During the 1915-16 term her Design classes were taught by Miss Gray, the Fashion Plate Instructress who taught at the School between 1905-1918
The Glasgow School of Art student registration number Christina Eadie Shand:
If you have any more information please get in touch
Henry Sewell was born in Dumfries on 13th September 1892, a child of Isabella Sewell (nee Elliot) and Henry R Sewell, a teacher, of Lochrutton, Kirkcudbrightshire. Censuses show the family living in the school house in Lochrutton in 1901. In 1911 they were living in Dennistoun, Glasgow. Sewell, also a teacher, attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1913 to 1914 as an evening student of drawing and painting, taught by Mr Jackson, and from 1916 to 1917 and 1918 to 1920 as an evening student of metal design, taught by Miss Dewar. GSA records show him residing in Westerton, Glasgow in these later years. Sewell is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour and according to this, he served in the Royal Field Artillery.
If you have any more information, please get in touch.
Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk.
Mark Fernand Severin (5 January 1906 at Ixelles, Belgium - 10 September 1987 at Uccle, Belgium) was a Belgian-born artist and graphic designer who lived in England for most of his life.Mark Severin was the son of Fernand Severin (1876–1931), a poet. Described as one of the most outstanding engravers of his generation, Mark Severin specialised in fine miniature work, including postage stamps and book illustrations. He made close to five hundred bookplates, of which a great number are on erotic subjects. He was also active as an advertisement designer in Great Britain, including posters for Imperial Airways and the London Underground. In 1935, Severin married Nina Holme, a children's book illustrator, daughter of Charles Geoffrey Holme, editor of The Studio, an illustrated fine arts and decorative arts magazine founded and, until 1919, edited by his father, Charles Holme. Mark and Nina had two sons: Erik and Geoffrey.
Rita Serafini studied Textiles at GSA from 1975 and designed garments for the 1978 fashion show.
Selby, a German refugee, was born in Germany as Manfred Salinger. He studied architecture at the Technical College of Berlin in the 1920s under Modernists such as Walter Gropius and Erich Mendelsohn (despite having Albert Speer, “Hitler’s architect”, as a classmate). Selby practised as an architect in Berlin before escaping to Prague during the Nazi regime. He was was unable to work as an architect there as only Czechs were allowed to do so, but found work as a neon sign maker and developed his life-long love for Czech architecture. He was later to find himself on the streets of Prague again during the Summer of 1968 as the Czech people attempted (unsuccessfully) to overthrow the Soviet Union-backed regime (He brought back several dramatic pictures of the uprising, now stored in the archives at Strathclyde University).
When the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia, after several failed attempts to travel to the Soviet Union, Salinger finally found himself in England, and picked up his new name somewhere along the way. Selby was initially interned at a refugee camp when he first came to Britain, finding himself alongside fellow future GSA staff member Paul Zunterstein, who went on to study and work under Benno Schotz in the 1950s.
After serving in the British Army in Palestine and Egypt, Selby moved to Glasgow, was admitted as an Associate to RIBA (the Royal British Institute of Architects) in 1948 and began teaching and practising as an architect once more. He became a lecturer at The Mackintosh School of Architecture and continued to teach architectural history part-time at GSA after his retiral in 1972. Selby’s specialist subject was Modern Architectural Theory, and as a former student of Gropius and Mendelsohn in Berlin, Selby was described by Professor Frank Walker, his student turned colleague, as “a living link to Modernism”, someone who had experienced the progression of Modern European architecture at close quarters, and who through his teaching and practice brought first-hand knowledge of the places and people students at GSA were studying and aspiring to.
James Finlayson Seel was a staff member at GSA in the Design/Silversmithing and Jewellery department for a number of decades. From 1955/56 to 1963/64, he was a visiting staff member, from 1964/65 to 1970/71 he was an assistant and from 1971/71 to 1990/91 was a lecturer.
Glen Scouller RSW RGI was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1968 to 1973. He now lives and works in Ayrshire and draws inspiration for his landscapes and still life from there and from the south of France, where he is a frequent visitor. Known for his love of colour and light and strong bold approach, Scouller's work is based on direct observation from nature, painting en plein air and developing larger works in the studio.
Elected a member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours (RSW) in 1997 and the Royal Glasgow Institute (RGI) in 1989 he has also won awards for his work in both oil and watercolour and is included in numerous corporate and public collections worldwide.
AWARDS
1972 R.S.A. Painting Award
1973 Post Graduate Study Award
1973 W.O. Hutcheson Prize for Drawing
1973 Travelling Scholarship, Greece
1987 Lauder Award, Glasgow Art Club
Scottish Amicable Award, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
1989 Elected member of The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
1997 Elected member of The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour
2006 David Cargill Award, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
2008 Residency, L’Association Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Collioure
2013 Crinan Residency Award, The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts
Scottish Women's Rural Institutes
Scottish Studios and Engravers
Scottish Society of Art Workers
Formed in 1898, with a membership comprised of "Workers in the Arts", the objectives of the Scottish Society of Art Workers were to hold exhibitions of art works and to arrange for lectures and practical demonstrations to be held. The Society had no formal place of meeting and met at the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland; the Glasgow Institute of Architects, Glasgow; and various of the members offices. It was to be exclusive and was mostly comprised of artists from the West of Scotland. Members included James A Morris, Ruby Pickering, Fra. Newbery, John Keppie, Phoebe Traquair, James Watt, A.N. Paterson, Jessie M. King, Agnes Raeburn and Jessie Newbery.
Scottish National Textile Group
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The Scottish Education Department was formed from The Education (Scotland) Act 1872 when responsibility for schooling in Scotland was taken from the Church of Scotland. It was originally called the Scotch Education Department, was a committee of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, and had its offices in London. In 1885 the department became a responsibility of the new ministerial post of Secretary for Scotland, under whom the Scottish Office was set up.
In 1918 the department was moved to Edinburgh and the name was changed to the Scottish Education Department. The Secretary for Scotland became the Secretary of State for Scotland in 1926. The department was renamed the Scottish Office Education Department (SOED) in 1991, and the Scottish Office Education and Industry Department (SOEID) in 1995.
With devolution in 1999 the new Scottish Executive set up the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED) to oversee school education whilst the Scottish Executive Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department – later Enterprise Transport and Lifelong Learning Department (ETLLD) – took over responsibility from the former SED for further and higher education. In May 2007 the new Scottish National Party government abolished the departments within the Scottish Executive.
Winifred Kennedy Scott was born on the 20th of June 1899. Scott resided at a variety of address in the West End of Glasgow including Woodside Terrace, and South of the river in Ibrox while completing her studies at The Glasgow School of Art between 1917-1928. These were presumed to be her term time addresses as the School Registers also have address in Ballinluig and Birnum in Perthshire. During her time at the School, Scott studied day classes in Design from 1917-1924. In her first year at the School she received a prestigious Carneigie Bursary worth £50.
During this time she took classes in Painting on Wood, Stained Glass, Leather Craft and Life Drawing following on. Her tutor in Ceramic Painting would have been Ann Macbeth in the late 1910s. In Embroidery, she would also be taught by Macbeth and her successors.
From 1924-1926 Scott took a break from her studies, returning to the School for evening classes in Etching from 1926-1928. In these later years her profession was listed as Art Teacher.
In 1925 Scott was elected as a member of The Glasgow Society of Lady Artists which held group exhibitions allowing female artists to sell their works.
Scott went on to be a prolific ceramic decorator and textile artist in the Arts and Craft style, with four shawls designed by her in the mid 1920's featured in the V&A's permanent collection and a number of her ceramics in the Perth Museum and Art Gallery collection. Her ceramics in particular were influenced by a love of nature and interest in ornamental design in different cultures including Ancient Greece.
Due to the rural location of her family home in Perthshire, Scott developed an interest in decorating wooden items with paint, favouring blues and greens.
Scott passed away in 1940.
Further information relating to her can be found in the pamphlet Going to Pot: Pottery in Perth & Kinross, past and present (Perth, 1992). Available at the Local & Family History AK Bell Library in Perth. https://pkc.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/OPAC/BIBENQ?BRN=1254273
There is an article about Winifred Kennedy Scott by Hildegarde Berwick featured in Scottish Pottery Historical Review Issue Number 15 1993 available at the University of Glasgow Library or can be ordered directly from the Scottish Pottery Society.
The Glasgow School of Art student registration number, Winifred Kennedy Scott:
Additional Souces:
If you have any more information please get in touch.
William R. Scott was born on the 15th of July 1898 and resided at St Kilda, Upper Dunlop Street, Tollcross to the East of Glasgow, while completing his studies at The Glasgow School of Art. Scott undertook evening classes in Design during 1918-19. During this time his profession was listed as Apprentice Designer.
The Glasgow School of Art student registration number William R. Scott:
If you have any more information please get in touch
William Peach Scott was born in Pollokshields on the 13th March, 1890, one of five children of Emily and John Scott, a house decorator. William attended The Glasgow School of Art as a student in Architecture from 1905 to 1911, while living in Hillhead and working as an architect. During the First World War, William served in the 1st/5th battalion of the Highland Light Infantry. He died of his wounds in 1917 at the age of 27, and was buried in the Gaza War Cemetery. His name also appears on the roll of honour in the Giffnock South Parish Church. William Peach Scott 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 (Student).
If you have any more information, please get in touch.
Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk; Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; the Commonwealth War Graves Commission: http://www.cwgc.org; The Scottish Military Research Group: http://www.warmemscot.s4.bizhat.com/warmemscot-ftopic5589.html
Vera Helen Scott was born in Russia in 1877 to Lady Christina Scott and Sir Charles Stewart Scott, a British ambassador. The eldest of a family of six, she was described as a precocious child and 'the brains of the family'. Much of her childhood was spent abroad, until her family moved to London before settling in Scotland. From 1910 to 1911 she studied at The Glasgow School of Art. Scott served as a VAD nurse for eleven months from June 1915, during which time she was based at Stobhill 3rd Scottish General Hospital in Glasgow. She was then withdrawn due to 'nerves and hysteria'. She died tragically from exhaustion following an acute manic episode at Gartnavel Royal Lunatic Asylum in 1921, at the age of 43. She never married. Vera Helen Scott is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.
If you have any more information, please get in touch.
Sources: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archives
Ralph Rookby Scott was born in Glasgow on the 9th of September 1892, one of four children of Emily Scott (née Payne) and John Scott, a house painter. Ralph Rookby Scott attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1909 to 1912 as a full-time student of Painting, later apprenticing as a Painter and Decorator to his father's firm. During the First World War, Scott served as a Private in the 2nd battalion of the King's Own Scottish Borderers. He died in action on the 28th of June 1918 and is buried in Thiennes, France. His brother, William Peach Scott, also studied as an Architectural student at The Glasgow School of Art between 1907 and 1910 and worked as an architect with Messrs. James Salmon & Son, Glasgow. He served in the 3rd and 5th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, dying in Palestine as a result of wounds received in action on the 9th November 1917. Ralph and William Scott shared an elder brother, James Blair Scott (b. 1886), who was also a part time Drawing and Painting student at The Glasgow School of Art between 1903 and 1910 and worked as a house painter, presumably for the family business. Ralph Rookby Scott is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.
If you have any more information, please get in touch.
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. Lives Of The First World War: http://www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org Every Man Remembered: http://www.everymanremembered.org
Graduated from the GSA in 2018, having received an Outstanding Student award from the Scottish Goldsmiths Trust (Incorporation of Goldsmiths of the City of Edinburgh) in 2015. Scott went on to take up a place at Bishoplands Educational Trust in Oxfordshire from 2018 to to 2019.
Mary Auld Scott was born on the 24th of July 1895, although her birth year is also listed as 1896 in some entries in The Glasgow School of Art's registers. Over the course of her studies she resided at a variety of addresses in Glasgow's West End during term time, due to the distance from her home the Manse of Meldrum, at Old Meldrum in Aberdeenshire. Scott undertook day and evening classes in Drawing and Painting at the School from 1912-1920, with a break in her studies between 1913-14. At the end of the 1915-16 session she was awarded the School Certificate of Needlecraft (Very Good) granted by the Governors. During the 1917-18 session, Scott received a bursary worth £10, and spent time taking classes in Animal Drawing, Costume and Pottery.
The Glasgow School of Art student registration number, Mary Auld Scott:
If you have any more information please get in touch.
Josephine Mary C. Scott attended The Glasgow School of Art between 1917-18 while residing at 40 Edgehill Road, Broomhill in the West End of Glasgow. During her time at the School she completed evening classes in Drawing and Painting.
The Glasgow School of Art student registration number, Josephine Mary C. Scott:
1917-18 (415)
If you have any more information please get in touch.
John Oldrid Scott was born in 1841, the second son of George Gilbert Scott (later Sir, born 1811). He was articled to his father in 1860, becoming principal assistant by the later 1860s. Although in increasingly fragile health following a stroke and family bereavements, George Gilbert Scott remained firmly in charge of the practice until his sudden death from a heart attack on 27 March 1878. Despite having had no formal partnership with his father, John Oldrid Scott inherited the practice, and was admitted FRIBA on 2 December that same year, his proposers being Charles Barry Junior, George Edmund Street and Benjamin Ferrey. He completed his father's Scottish projects, modifying the design of the spire at the University of Glasgow and acting as consultant for new buildings at the university until 1901. He died on 30 May 1913. In his later years John Oldrid Scott was assisted by his son Charles Marriot Oldrid Scott, born in 1880.
John David Scott was born on the 2nd of March 1895, residing at 323 Allison Street, Crosshill to the South of Glasgow, while completing his studies at The Glasgow School of Art. Scott undertook day classes in Drawing and Painting during 1914-15.
The Glasgow School of Art student registration number, John David Scott:
If you have any more information please get in touch.