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Painter, printmaker, artist in opto-kinetic construction and teacher, born in Cambridge. Studied at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, 1962–4, Nottingham College of Art and Design, 1964–7, where his work was influenced by the tuition of Bridget Riley, and at Slade School of Fine Art, 1967–9, under Robyn Denny. Went on to teach at Glasgow School of Art. Did some scientific book illustration. Showed widely in England and abroad. Work held by Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, Scottish Arts Council and Cambridge University. Lived for some time at Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire.

Richard Aroll was a student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1893-1902. He features on the Roll of Honour in Glasgow's Arlington Baths. The School presents a Richard H Arroll prize in metalwork.

Glasgow embroiderer and teacher.

GSA student in 1908/9 (age given as 36), 1909/10 and 1911/12, with her occupation given as Teacher.

Member of GSA staff in the Needlecraft and Embroidery departhment from 1912/13 to 1930/31. One of an active group of designers working in Glasgow during the 1920s and 30s. In 1928, she succeeded Ann Macbeth as head of the Embroidery department. Arthur also taught china painting and decorative leatherwork. She relinquished her GSA post in 1931 in order to establish the 'Arthur Studios' at 15 Rose Street.

Author of "An Embroidery Book". GSA Annual Reports record that she died during the 1949/50 academic session.

Liz Arthur was the curator of costume and textiles for Glasgow Museums and the Burrell Collection for many years. She is a former Chairman of the Renfrewshire Branch of the Embroiderer's Guild and has worked at the Glasgow School of Art in various capacities. 
She is a researcher, exhibition curator, lecturer and writer. While writing 'Robert Stewart Design : 1946 - 95' she consulted Robert Stewart's family, friends & colleagues and made use of the Glasgow School of Art's Archives and Collections Centre.
She has written a number of other books including, 'Kathleen Whyte : Embroiderer', 'Kathleen Whyte : Design in Embroidery', 'Margaret Swain : Scottish Embroidery', 'Twentieth Century Embroidery in Great Britain', 'Embroidery for Religion and Ceremonial' and 'Embroidered Church Kneelers'.

The Artist Teachers' Exhibition Society was established c1910-1911 in Glasgow, Scotland, and was open to all who were artist teachers, with its object being to maintain a high standard of personal work on the part of its members. James A Dron acted as Secretary and Treasurer for the Society.
The first exhibition was held in 1911 and the fourth in 1916, an exhibition which gave its proceeds to the Scottish branch of the Red Cross Society and the Soldiers' & Sailors' Families Association. Members included many staff from The Glasgow School of Art, including Fra Newbery, Ann Macbeth and Maurice Greiffenhagen as well as teachers from other institutions in Scotland.

Paul Artot was born in Brussels on the first of February 1875. He studied at the Academie Royal des Beaux Arts de Belgique.

Artot was interviewed by the school's director Francis Newbery in Florence in 1902. In the early twentieth century, Newbery began recruiting for staff elsewhere in Europe under a set of criteria from the government's director for art. These criteria had been drawn up to ensure that The Glasgow School of Art established itself as a leading art school in the UK. The school had previously recruited Jean Delville, another Belgian artist who was educated at the Societe Royal des Beaux Arts de Belgique. Artot was appointed as a result of a second recruitment of staff by Newberry.

Paul Artot taught Drawing and Painting at the school between 1902 and 1912. He was first a professor of antique still life classes before moving on to teach life drawing classes using live animals (1903-1910). He became head of these classes in 1910 before being appointed head of life and costume model (1911-1912).

Artot was heavily inspired by the precise, Neoclassical style of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. He brought this inspiration into his drawing classes, encouraging his students to develop a chemical understanding of their pigments and to draw with chalk pencils rather than traditional charcoal. He was also on the staff council between 1908 and 1912.

Artot died in Brussels in 1958. The Glasgow School Of Art Archives and Collections hold several photographs featuring him in the collection. There are also references to him within our Director's Papers for Francis Newbery (GSAA/DIR/5) and our Secretary and Treasurer papers (GSAA/SEC).

Sources used: The Flower and the Green Leaf by Ray McKenzie, GSA Archives and Collections Annual Reports (GSAA/GOV/1) GSA Archives and Collections Prospectuses (GSAA/REG/1) Website for the Academie Royale Des Beaux-Arts in Brussels: http://www.arba-esa.be/fr/home.php.

Mary graduated with BA (Hons) from Glasgow School of Art in 1987. She has held various positions including opening her own Graphic Design practice and at present is a director of a technology consultancy company in Edinburgh. She is also Stage 2 Lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art.

Miss Alma Fedora Maude Assafrey was born in Glasgow in 1888. Her father was Alexander Thomas Assafrey an immigrant from Russia, and a well-known confectioner in Glasgow. Mr A T Assafrey commissioned John Honeyman & Keppie to design a chimneypiece for his Sauchiehall Street shop in 1893 and he was admitted as a lay member of the Glasgow Art Club in 1895 Miss A F M Assafrey studied drawing and painting at Glasgow School of Art. In 1909 she won the Director's prize for figure competition. She later joined the staff of the GSA as a Wardrobe Mistress (1909/1910). She may have been involved in the creation of four decorative panels for the new Possil Park Library. In 1913, she became engaged to one of her teachers, Alexander J. Musgrove, who had just been chosen as founding principal of the new School of Art in Winnipeg. He took up his position on June 27, 1913. Miss Assafrey joined him in Winnipeg in April or early May 1914. However she decided to return home. She died in the wreck of the Empress of Ireland on May 29 1914. She is buried in the Craigton Cemetery in Glasgow.

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Atherton was a student at Manchester College of Art and Design, Leverhulme Scholar, Royal Academy Schools. He later went on to become a member of staff at the Glasgow School of Art from the 1970s until 2003. He is known for his portraits.

Alexander Cosmo Smith Auld was born in 1888. He studied architecture at The Glasgow School of Art from 1908 to 1913 under Eugene Bourdon. In 1914 he enlisted voluntarily, joining the Gordon Highlanders regiment. He moved to London after the war where he worked as a senior assistant with Sir Herbert Baker until transferring to the Miner's Welfare Commission (MWC). In 1951 he moved to Scotland to work for the Scottish Division of the MWC, where he worked on designs for a number of projects including pithead baths, medical centres, canteens, and recreational centres. He died in Kent in 1969. Auld is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour. Please get in touch

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Silje Eirin Aure is a Norwegian, Glasgow based freelance illustrator. She graduated from the Department of Visual Communication at The Glasgow School of Art in 2008, where she also spent the following year as designer in residence.

Alfredo Avella, DA AMGP, was born in Cava de Tirreni in Italy in 1924. He studied part time under Hugh Adam Crawford at Glasgow School of Art, attending evening classes between 1946-1948 and the early 1950s. Avella was encouraged by John Duncan Ferguson and exhibited as an independent with the New Scottish Group at McLellan Galleries in 1956. Two early paintings from the period are on permanent view at The Ferguson Gallery in Perth. He studied Stained Glass at the Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1965. He was made an associate of British Society of Master Glass Painters in 1966. He became a visiting member of staff at Glasgow School of Art in 1968 and was a full time lecturer in the Stained Glass and Murals department between 1969 and 1982.

Continuing to be a painter and stained glass artist in Scotland, Avella was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Visual Art residency in Amsterdam in 1980. He had many one man shows and group exhibitions in Scotland, including; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and The Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh in 1980. He undertook many commissions in stained glass in Scotland including; Drumchapel St Andrews Church, Glasgow, McTaggart Memorial Westpark Church, Denny, Denny Civic Hall, Craiglockhart Parish Church, Edinburgh, St John the Baptist Church, Port Glasgow, St Mark’s Church, Oxgangs, Edinburgh, Joy of Life, Queen Margaret's College, Edinburgh College of Domestic Science, Musselburgh, Glasgow Police Federation in Woodside Place, Glasgow. He also undertook commissions in metal and mosaic, such as at the Motherwell and Wishaw Civic Centre and the County District Library in Dunbarton. There are a number of his paintings in private collections. Avella died in Glasgow in 1982.

Vianney Avella was a Textile Design student at GSA from 1974, and designed and modelled garments for the 1976, 1977, 1978 fashion shows.She was also the compere at the GSA Fashion which took place at the Contemporary Arts Centre in Sauchiehall Street. She was awarded the Newbery medal in 1978 and went on to do a postgraduate in Theatre Design at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London. She worked as a costume designer for the BBC in the 1980s and 90s and later as a theatre costume designer in The Netherlands. As of January 2018, she is an independent creative consultant and lives the Netherlands. Her father was Alfredo Avella, who taught stained glass and murals at the Murals and Stained Glass department, Design and Crafts Course at GSA in the 1960s and 70s.Vianney is joint curator of the Alfredo Avella stained glass and paintings collection.

Sources: Information provided by Vianney Avella herself; GSA Annual Report 1977-78 GOV/1/10; LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com; International Movie Database http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0042880/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Carrington N Ayles studied art and design at The Glasgow School of Art from 1894 to 1900, before moving to Ayr. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Beginning his career as a Professional Modelmaker in 1977 Brian Gallagher founded B. G. Models Ltd in 1991, originally based in the Templeton Business Centre, Glasgow. Over the years the Company has built a reputation for outstanding quality and creativity, specialising in the construction of high specification Architectural models. In 2001 the Company relocated to a new Studio in the historical country town of Biggar, South Lanarkshire. The Company has continued to perfect the production of hand crafted models.

Born in 1898, Hamish Baikie took evening classes in Drawing and Painting at the Glasgow School of Art between 1918 and 1919. Although originally from Maybole, Ayshire, Baikie lived on Kent Road in Glasgow while studying.

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Alex Baillie was born in 1894. He attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1913-1914, during which time he lived in Crosshill and worked as an apprentice architect. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Charles Cameron Baillie began attending Evening Classes in Painting and Drawing in 1918, while working as a Scientific Instrument Maker. He continued attending evening classes until 1922, when it seems he ceased work as a scientific instrument maker, and began attending day classes in drawing and painting for the next three years. During his time at the GSA, Baillie lived on New City Road, and Maryhill Road.

After leaving the GSA, Baillie became successful as both a painter and interior designer. Notable exhibitions include 1931 and 1959 at the Royal Scottish Academy, and 1925, 1927, 1930, and 1931 at the Royal Glasgow Institute. He also worked for shipping companies; hired by Cunard in the 1930's, he was responsible for the interiors of the luxury liner Queen Mary. This, in turn, led him to design the interior for Rogano Restaurant in Glasgow, which still boasts its original interior. Baillie is also quite well known for his painting, particularly his strongly stylised portraits, and studies of life on the South Pacific - examples can be seen in the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow.

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Sources: Scottish Dictionary of Artists and Architects, RGI Dictionary, RSA Dictionary, roganoglasgow.com

Born Edinburgh. Painter in oil; genre and urban life art critic and teacher. Educated Royal Highland School and Edinburgh College of Art. During WW2 served with the RAF in Burma and India. Immediately after the war he studied in France, Italy and Spain, having been awarded the Andrew Grant and Andrew Carnegie travelling scholarships. Teacher of drawing, Edinburgh College of Art 1947 and in 1950 became Senior lecturer in painting at Leeds CA before returning to Scotland to take up senior lectureship in art history at Glasgow University, remaining there 1954-1985. Between 1970-1980 art critic of the Glasgow Herald.

William Baillie was born on the 18th February 1893 or 1895. Baillie studied at the Glasgow School of Art in 1914 and 1916, where he took evening classes in architecture. He was articled to Lennox & MacMath in 1910, during which time he also studied at the Royal Technical College. On completion of his apprenticeship he spent two years as an architect's assistant with John Hamilton & Son in Bath Street, Glasgow. He passed his qualifying exam in London in 1922. He was admitted ARIBA later that year, his proposers being John Hamilton, Colin Sinclair and Alexander Nisbet Paterson. Thereafter he practised for a time from his home in Scotstoun.

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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.

Agnes Roy Baird was born on 7th May, 1891. She attended Drawing and Painting Evening Classes between 1914 and 1915. She lived in Dennistoun, and worked as a teacher.

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A native of Montrose, Baird lived in the town for most of his life and it provided the subject for some of his best-known paintings. Poor health prevented him from following the family tradition of seagoing, and after attending Montrose Academy, he enrolled at the Glasgow School of Art in 1924, studying alongside James McIntosh Patrick who became a close friend.

A very successful student, Baird was awarded the Newbery medal in 1927, the year he gained his Diploma. Following his Board of Education exam in 1928, he was awarded a Travelling Scholarship of £120 and spent four months to March 1929 travelling and studying in Italy.

Moving back to Montrose, he became involved in the ‘Scottish Renaissance’ movement in the town and early Scottish Nationalist politics, with the author Fionn MacColla (whose portrait he painted in 1932) and the poet and essayist Hugh MacDiarmid (Christopher Murray Grieve) then editor of 'The Montrose Review' newspaper. In 1939, Baird adapted a portrait of another local friend, James “Pumphy” Davidson to show him wearing the armband of the forerunners of the Home Guard, and the image was widely used in early war propaganda efforts.

Appointed as an Official War Artist in 1942, he produced his best-known painting that year, “Unidentified Aircraft” (Glasgow Museums) with a striking image of Montrose. By 1944, his health had deteriorated, and Baird was hospitalised. Though he recovered, he only lived another five years. His output was small, around forty paintings and a similar number of drawings during his career, but they reveal a highly individual and often unsettling vision.

Grace Baird was born on 6th August 1891. She worked as a teacher in Paisley. Baird attended evening classes in China Painting during 1918-1919.

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Painter and etcher, born in Ayrshire. Studied at The Glasgow School of Art, 1884-1885 and 1889-1902. Naval architect with the Admiralty 1917-1919. Travelled widely on the Continent. Exhibited between 1910 and 1930.

Thomas Baird was born at 277 Eglinton Street, Glasgow on 29 May 1862, the son of Thomas Baird, insurance clerk, and his wife Ann Gordon. He was educated at the Southern Academy and studied mathematics with a James Lindsay at his school in Cathedral Street and also under a Mr Ness at the Glasgow Athenaeum. He was articled to John Gordon from 1876 to 1881 and attended The Glasgow School of Art. He taught building construction at the Athenaeum in 1881-1887, commencing practice in the latter year first as head draughtsman and then as a partner with John Gordon. Though Baird's name does not appear in the practice title he remained in partnership with Gordon until the early 1900s. In 'Building Industries' 17 December 1917 (re: alterations to the Alexandra Hotel) Thomas Baird was described as having been with the practice for twenty-five years (i.e. since the beginning of his articles in 1876). That he was a partner is confirmed by their joint names appearing on the Dean of Guild drawings for Strathbungo Public School of 1893-5: he appears as 'Thomas Baird Junior' in the Post Office directories of this date. He left the Gordon's practice in or about 1903 when one of Gordon's sons became a partner along with David Woodburn Sturrock as Gordon Son & Sturrock.
Baird was elected FRIBA on 11 June 1906, his proposers being David Barclay, John Keppie and Horatio Kelson Bromhead. His office at that date was 134 Bath Street and he remained there into the 1920s, maintaining a branch office at what was probably a holiday house in Dunoon from 1909 until 1915. His cinemas showed him to be a very talented designer, the Picture Salon having a splendid Moorish façade with glazed tiles and an advanced ferro-concrete structure.

William G Baird was born c1882. He studied design at The Glasgow School of Art in 1903-1904, during which time he worked as a glass stainer. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Jeanie Gilmour Baldwin was born on 25th October 1892. Living in Hyndland, Glasgow, she worked as a Clerkess. She attended evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art from 1917 – 1919, studying Drawing and Painting.

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Robert Lindsay Balfour was born in 1888. He attended night classes in drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1912/13 to 1915/16, during which time he worked as a clerk. He is listed as a member of the Highland Light Infantry in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Lewis Ballantine was a student of the School from January 1966 (when he joined the non-diploma class) until 1970.

Gino Ballantyne was a student of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art . He was a visiting artist at The Glasgow School of Art from 2015 to 2017.

John Ballantyne was born in 1890. He attended evening classes in textile design and needlework at The Glasgow School of Art from 1907 to 1912. During this time he lived in Kilburnie and worked variously as a warehouseman and clerk. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour as a member of the Scottish Rifles.

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Mary Balloch (born 30/09/1869), was a Headmistress living in Coatbridge. Between 1916 – 1917, she attended evening classes in China Painting, under the tutelage of Miss Macbeth.

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George Baltus was a Belgian artist and lecturer born in 1874. Baltus married Sivia von Hildebrand, the daughter of the German sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand, in 1904. He began his relationship with the School as an occasional visiting lecturer around 1906. He gave talks to the students on subjects such as composition and the history of art in major cities such as Florence. He was recruited as a permanent member of staff in 1908 and his lecture series developed to include techniques and processes. He released a book during his time at the School called [i]The Technics Of Painting[/i]. Baltus returned to Belgium on the outbreak of the First World War where he stayed in active resistance to the German invasion and didn’t return to Glasgow. In 1920, Baltus was appointed professor at the Academy, a position he kept till he left in 1925 for the Acadlmey of Elsene (Ixelles/Brussels). He stayed involved in Leuven affairs as general inspector for art schools in the Belgian Flemish Region. If you have any additional information please get in touch.

Resources used: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: a journal of nineteenth-century visual culture, The Influence of Theosophy on Belgian Artists, Between Symbolism and the Avant-Garde (1890-1910), The Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections, The Glasgow School of Art Prospectuses, The Flower and the Green Leaf: Glasgow school of Art in the time of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, edited by Ray McKenzie, The Glasgow School of Art: the history, by Hugh Ferguson, The Glasgow School of Art Archives and Collections, Records of The Glasgow School of Art, 15th century-2014. Additional information provided by a private researcher.

Born on 24th September 1900, Jehanne came to Glasgow as a Belgian Refugee during the First World War. Records show that she attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1914 and 1916, as a Day Pupil studying Drawing and Painting. In the 1914 – 15 record, her address is noted as "Belleim, Belgium, Oriendale, Flandre", but it is also noted that she was staying at 10 Princes Gardens, Glasgow. Jehanne came to the UK with some members of her family, including her sisters Suzanne Nys Baltus who also studied at the GSA, and Maria Nys Baltus, who later married Aldous Huxley.

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Sources: Nicholas Murray, 'Aldous Huxley: An English Intellectual', (Hachette Digital: London,2009), De Famille Nys Baltus in Bellem @ https://geschiedenisvanaalter.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/de-familie-nys-baltus-in-bellem.html, Belgian Refugees @ https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/the-mitchell-library/archives/collections/belgian-refugees/pages/

Suzanne Nys Baltus (born 04/11/1902) attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1914 and 1916, where she studied afternoon classes in Design, she was listed as an Art Student. Suzanne was a Belgian refugee, and sister of Jehanne Nys Baltus, who was also studying at the Glasgow School of Art at the same time. Between 1914-15, they shared residence at 10 Princes Gardens, Dowanhill; but in 1915-1916, Suzanne had moved to a different residence on Hyndland Road. Suzanne was also related to Maria Nys Baltus, who later married Aldous Huxley.

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David Band was a student at The Glasgow School of art between 1977 and 1981. He later attended the Royal College of Art in London. He was commissioned to design album covers for bands such as Altered Images and Spandau Ballet and to design for Paul Smith, Saks and Liberty. In 1983 he set up ‘The Cloth’ Studios with Fraser Taylor, Brian Bolger and Helen Manning.

Phyllis More Bankhead (born 02/06/1899), attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1917 and 1921. She attended as a Day Pupil, and began by studying Design, specifically lettering and needlework. Lettering involved the taught use of reed and quill pens. In the 1918 – 1919 records, however, she is listed as studying Drawing and Painting, specifically Fashion Plate. Fashion Plate Drawing and Dress Design involved the study of the human figure, the study of drapery and material, the making of drawings for the illustration of catalogues and advertisements, and the designing of dresses as models for dressmakers and tailors.

Throughout her time at the GSA, Phyllis lived at 3 Dumbreck Road, Ibrox. Her occupation was consistently listed as an Art Student.

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Alexander Banner was known as a landscape painter in oil and as an art teacher. Much of his work dates from between 1868 and 1890, and he exhibited twice at the Glasgow Institute and once, in 1888, at the Royal Scottish Academy.

Banner was taken on at the Glasgow School of Art as Second Master to the then Head Master, Charles Heath Wilson, but worked mainly under the subsequent Head Master, Robert Greenlees. Banner's duties involved teaching elementary drawing, geometry and perspective and providing discipline and general instruction. He was also responsible for training art teachers in the associated colleges and seminaries in Glasgow.

He taught at GSA from November 1861 until May 1877, when he was asked by the Governors to tender his resignation.

S C F Bannerman was born c1890 and died in action during the First World War. He attended part-time drawing and painting classes at The Glasgow School of Art in 1904/05 and 1907/08. Bannerman is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour as a captain in the Royal Army Service Corps.

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Elsie Dorothea Barclay was born 7th December 1899. She attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1918 and 1922 where she studied Drawing and Painting as a Day Pupil. During her studies, she lived in Dennistoun.

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Gillian Barclay was a Silversmithing and Jewellery student at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1970s. She won the Johnson Matthey Silver Award in 1977.

Jen Barclay attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1914 and 1915. During her time there, she studied evening classes in Design, specifically pottery. This involved pottery modelling, glazing and painting. Students were taught to model bowls and pots to glaze. They were also taught to create designs for tiles, and glazing. Barclay worked as a Milliner and lived in Clydebank.

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Thomas Barclay was born on the 18th March 1897, the son of Thomas Barclay, meat inspector, and his wife Agnes Lindsay. Barclay studied at the Glasgow School of Art between 1915 and 1918, where he took evening classes in architecture. He served his apprenticeship with the Office of Public Works from 1912 until 1917, where he also studied at the Royal Technical College and received the Halden Bursary in 1916. He served in the army in 1917 and 1918, and the following year was appointed assistant architect in the Glasgow Corporation Housing Department, continuing his studies at the Royal Technical College for a further two years. He remained in the Housing Department thereafter, acting as resident architect for the Mosspark and Knightswood housing schemes from 1923 to 1931, and in 1937 was appointed principal assistant architect in the Department. He was admitted LRIBA on 13 August 1940. During the Second World War Barclay was seconded to the Architectural Section of the City Engineer's Department of Glasgow Corporation. He was involved in civil defence work which included: the protection of the Police Divisional Headquarters, the design and erection of decontamination stations, alterations to police buildings and the design and erection of police wireless control and workshops. On 30 May 1945 he was appointed Deputy Chief Architect of the Housing Department in Glasgow and was promoted to Chief Architect on 14 July 1952. On 1 April 1953 he became Principal Architect (Housing), in the Architecture and Planning Department of Glasgow Corporation. He was admitted FRIBA in early 1959. Barclay was married to Nan Bell. He retired to Kirkcudbrightshire and died on the 26th July 1966.

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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.

Established in 1801, Barker Brothers held original dies from Bolton and Watts, acquired during its early days of manufacturing. The business appears in an 1871 trade directory on Paradise Street, but in 1903 it moved to new factory premises, Unity Works on Constitution Hill where it remained until the 1980s, maintaining an additional London showroom in the early part of the C20th. In the 1960's, it merged with Ellis & Co. of Birmingham and became the Barker Ellis Silver Company limited. The company went into administration in 1992.

Margaret Helen Barnard was born on the 8th September 1898. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art between 1917 and 1923, where she took day classes in drawing and painting. In 1922, she achieved her diploma in Drawing and Painting, and in 1923, she achieved an Endorement on Diploma, which was awarded to students who had successfully completed a course of post-Diploma study and attained a sufficiently high standard. She had also studied Drawing and Painting at Post Diploma level. She moved to Kelso and then to London, where she married Robert Sang MacKenchie (1894-1975) in 1924. The couple moved to Rye, where both became influential artists in the area. Barnard was a painter in oil of figures and landscapes. She also became known as a designer and lino cutter. Barnard died in 1992.

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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.

Laurence Y. Barnby (born 13/08/1880) attended day classes in drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art between 1917 and 1918. Based at the James Watt Dock in Greenock, Barnby worked as a Staff Paymaster for the Royal Navy Reserves. From research, it seems that Barnby was working for the Royal Naval Reserves since at least 1914, therefore, it is possible that he should be included on the Glasgow School of Art Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve @ https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/units/4171/royal-naval-volunteer-reserve/, The London Gazette, 1920 @ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31779/page/1831/data.pdf (PDF), British Military Lists @ http://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/95467207

A W H Barnes was born in 1888. He studied drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1911/12 to 1913/14, during which time he worked as a photographer's assistant (1911/12) and an art dealer's assistant (1912-1914). It is possible that he left in 1914/15 to join the forces, and was injured in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. In session 1916/17 he returned for afternoon classes in drawing and painting, and in 1919/20 he returned full-time to study drawing and painting until 1920/21. In the Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture by Peter J M McEwan, Barnes is described as a Glasgow artist in oil and watercolour and painter of landscapes and topographical subjects. He is said to have moved from Glasgow to London in 1930, then to Cambridge in 1932. Barnes is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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