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James Robins Millar was born on 28th February 1889 in Canada. He attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1911 to 1916 as an evening student. Millar studied drawing and painting, life, and design. His occupation was listed as a clerk, and then journalist in his last year. Millar's registered addresses were Wood Street, Craigielea Street and then Alexandra Parade, all of which were in the Dennistoun area of Glasgow.

Millar (as Robins Millar) went on to write for the newly-formed Glasgow Evening News and became a playwright with his most successful play, of over 50 written, being 'Thunder in the Air'. His archive is held at the University of Glasgow Archive and Special Collections.

Sources: "‘Between the Grave and the Stars’: Ghost Plays of the Interwar Period, 1925-1936", PhD thesis of Marta Donati, 2022, https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/32499/1/Donati%20Marta%20-%20180211553.pdf [accessed 20/02/2025]; "A true polymath
Barbara Millar on Robins Millar", article for The Scottish
Review, Apr 4, 2018, https://electricscotland.com/history/SR25-Issue7-PDF.pdf [accessed 20/02/2025]

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Margaret Russell Millar was born on 28th December 1897. She attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1915 to 1920 as a day student of drawing and painting. She received a £10 bursary for the 1917-1918 session. Millar's registered address was in Colston.

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Roger Millar studied silversmithing and jewellery design at the Glasgow School of Art, and the Royal College of Art, London. Following a period of bench experience and freelance design work in the fine jewellery trade in London, he entered higher education teaching, first in Wales, then Dundee and the United States, finally returning to the Glasgow School of Art as Head of the Department of Silversmithing and Jewellery in 1984. In the following 21 years under his leadership, S&J at GSA became established as one of the most enduring and important degree courses in the United Kingdom, and its recent graduates have contributed greatly to the strength in depth of the craft in Scotland and beyond. Millar was elected to the Freedom of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and gained the Freedom of the City of London in 1985. In recognition of his significant contribution to education in design and craft, he was awarded, in 1999, an Honorary Professorship of the University of Glasgow at the Glasgow School of Art. He took early retirement from GSA in 2005 to concentrate full-time on his own studio work. He now continues to do some part-time and summer-school teaching and undertakes consultancy work in the UK and abroad.

James Millen was born in Glasgow on the 26th of March 1896, the eldest of two sons of Jane Craig Millen and James A Millen, an engineer. Millen attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1912 to 1914 as a part-time student in Architecture. During the First World War, he served in the 9th battalion of the Highland Light Infantry. He was killed in action on the 15th of July, 1916 and is buried in the Thiepval Memorial. His younger brother, John C Millen was also killed in action the following year. James Millen is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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

Alec was born in 1879 in Glasgow into a poor family living in a two-roomed tenement. He left school aged 12 and served a 7 year apprenticeship in a woodcarving studio run by Miss C P Anstruther, (Mrs Mackay), qualifying as a journeyman in 1898. From about 1895 until 1902 he attended drawing and art classes at evenings and weekends, mostly at the Glasgow School of Art.

In 1902, at the suggestion of Mrs Mackay, he applied for a position in the Guild of Handicraft run by CR Ashbee and joined it as it moved from Whitechapel to Chipping Campden. Here he began to do a great deal of ecclesiastical work resulting from Ashbee's work as an Architect' as well as other work, including modelling figures for casting by the silversmiths. After the Guild closed in 1908 he took over the Guild carving workshop and ran it as an independent business until he emigrated in 1939.

During the Guild years and after he also developed his skills as a stone carver and did much stone work both for churches and secular commissions. In all his work he carved directly into the material, he did not work from modelled figures, a method of working which had been out of favour and which he was one of the first to employ at the beginning of the new century. From about 1912 he began to carve portrait heads and busts in wood and near the end of his life he believed he had made over 600 in England and America.

He was nominated for the Slade Professorship in 1921, but was not successful. However, by this time he was developing an additional career in lecturing - not merely on art/sculpture related subjects, becoming sought after on both sides of the Atlantic. He made a number of lecture/work tours to the US between the wars.
He emigrated to America in 1939 and eventually settled in California.

After the end of the War he wrote two books, one technical and the other a history of sculpture which expressed the ideas and feelings he had developed during his working life for his work. He had been appointed by Ashbee as his literary executor, and also wrote a history of the Guild of Handicraft at Ashbee's request.

He died in England during what he knew would be his last visit and is buried in the churchyard at St Nicolas at Wade in Kent - the church in which he had been married in 1909.
Apart from many churches and homes, there are examples of his work in the Guild of Handicraft Museum in Chipping Campden, The Museum and Art Gallery in Cheltenham,' The Glasgow Museum, The National Portrait Gallery. There is also a large archive of pictures and letters in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Andrew Lindsay Miller Jr. was born in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire on 29th July 1886, one of four children of Agnes Murdoch Miller (née Turnbull) and Andrew Lindsay Miller, an architect. He had two elder brothers, James and John and an elder sister, Mary. It is noted on the Dictionary of Scottish Architects that his father died in 1903 of pleurisy and that the practice was continued by his brother James (born 1879), who had been taken into partnership earlier that year as A. Lindsay Miller & Son. Miller attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1903 to 1907 as a student of architecture and was most likely employed as an assistant in the family firm. During the First World War, Miller served as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 9th battalion. He married Ella Rankin MacMillan on 11th October 1916 whilst serving in the War. He died in action on 12th October 1917, aged 31. The date of his death falls within the third battle of Ypres, from the 31st of July to the 10th of November 1917. The 12th of October 1917 marked the beginning of the phase known as the First Battle of Passchendaele. Miller has a memorial placed at Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Miller is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour as well as on the Glasgow Institute of Architects Roll of Honour (Associate).

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ Dictionary of Scottish Architects: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/index.php The Royal British Legion: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/1635263/; The Long, Long Trail: http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/battles/battles-of-the-western-front-in-france-and-flanders/the-battles-of-ypres-1917-third-ypres/

Haswell Miller was a painter and curator, born in Glasgow, where he studied at The Glasgow School of Art under Maurice Greiffenhagen and Jean Delville, 1906-9, then for a year in Munich. He was married to the artist Josephine Miller. Miller taught at The Glasgow School of Art for 20 years from 1910, apart from during World War I, then was keeper and deputy director of the National Galleries of Scotland, 1930-52. He also held positions with the Royal Fine Arts Commission, National Buildings Record and Scottish Council. He also wrote, especially on military uniforms. He sometimes signed his work H M, and exhibited at RSW, of which he was a member, and RSA, also RA and Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Imperial War Museums and Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries hold his work. He lived for many years in Edinburgh but latterly in Gillingham, Dorset. A E Haswell Miller appears on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour, where he is commemorated as a captain of the Highland Light Infantry. He was decorated with a military cross. If you have any more information, please get in touch.

James Miller was born in Dennistoun, Glasgow, on 25th October 1893. Miller attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1907 to 1917 as a day student of drawing and painting. His registered address during these years was Wilton Drive, Glasgow. According to the Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture, Miller was a painter of portraits, still-life and animals mainly in watercolour. Miller lived in Glasgow, Carrick Castle, Argyll and also had a home in Skye where he painted. He also travelled extensively abroad and made the architecture of major European cities his main subject matter. During the First World War, Miller sketched the war damage of Glasgow. Miller exhibited over a hundred works at the Royal Scottish Academy between 1921 and 1987, the year he died, and also exhibited extensively at the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. If you have any more information, please get in touch.

Jamesina Miller was born on 7th August 1896 in Kirkintilloch. She was one of eight children of Alice (nee Aitken) and James Miller. She attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1915 to 1922 as a day student of drawing and painting. In the 1917-1918 session there is a note in the register stating that she was to start after Christmas. She also received a bursary in this session for £10. A full-time art student up until 1918, Miller's occupation is listed as teacher in her final year at the School. Miller's registered address was in Lochlea (Loch Lee), Kirkintilloch.

Miller was awarded a diploma in Drawing and Painting on 23rd June 1921.

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Janet Frame Miller (also known as J Nina Miller) was born on 7th May 1895. Miller attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1919 as a day student of drawing and painting, and from 1920 to 1922 as an evening student of modelling and design and then drawing and painting. Her registered address was in Hamilton. According to the Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture, Miller was a painter and black and white artist and teacher who also studied in France and Italy. Her work was exhibited six times at the Royal Scottish Academy between 1922 and 1951 and ten times at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts between 1922 and 1943. Miller married Charles Lamb Davidson, a cartoonist and stained glass designer who also attended GSA and who served in the First World War.

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Sources: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; "The Dictionary of Scottish Painters" by Paul Harris and Julian Halsby; "The Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture" by Peter JM McEwan.

Painter and Draughtsman. Born in Glasgow, Miller studied art at Glasgow School of Art under William Oliphant Hutchison. Miller was to return to the School as a senior lecturer in painting and drawing. From Glasgow Miller continued studying at the School of Art, and at Hospitalfield, Arbroath under James Cowie. Miller went on to exhibit at the RSA, SSA, RSW and Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. His work is owned by public galleries in Glasgow and Dundee. He lived at Rhu, Dunbartonshire.

Painter in oil, tempera and watercolour, and etcher. Born in Glasgow, she studied art at The Glasgow School of Art under Robert Anning Bell and Maurice Greiffenhagen. Exhibited RA, RSA, in the provinces and in America. Glasgow Corporation and the RSA bought her work. She was married to the artist Archibald E Haswell Miller and lived in Scotland for some years, later settling in Gillingham, Dorset.

She also taught Etching at The Glasgow School of Art from session 1924/25 to 1931/32.

Lydia Henning Miller was born in Lenzie, Dunbartonshire on 18th February 1891. She was one of eight children of Janet Wilson Calder Miller and Peter Miller. Miller attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1913 to 1917 as a student of design and drawing and painting. Her registered address was West Bank, Lenzie. She exhibited the monochrome figure study "A Woman" at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts in 1917.

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Sources: Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; "The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts 1861-1989" by Roger Billcliffe; "The Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture" by Peter JM McEwan.

Malcolm Miller was born on the 25th of August 1896. He attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1912-1915 as a part-time student in Drawing and Painting while working as an apprentice ticketwriter. During the First World War, Malcolm is listed as serving in the Highland Light Infantry. He is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Robert Miller was born on the 24th of February, 1897. He attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1913 to 1922 as a part-time student in Drawing and Painting while working as a lithographic apprentice. During the First World War, from 1916 to 1919, he served in the 3/5th battalion of the Highland Light Infantry. After the war, he worked as a lithographic artist while finishing his degree. Robert Miller is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Find My Past: http://www.findmypast.co.uk.

Thomas R Milligan was a teacher who studied at the GSA from 1885 to 1890, gaining his Full Art Class Teacher’s Certificate in 1887 and his Art Master’s Certificate Group 1, stage 1c the following year. By 1890 he was completing his Art Master’s Certificate, Group 1 stage 14-22c, flowers and design, having won the 3rd grade prize in the subject in the National competition the previous year.

Throughout his Art School career, Milligan’s address was 22 Arlington Street, Glasgow. In the PO Directory of 1887, he is described as an artist and teacher of Drawing and Painting.

Alexander George Milne was born on the 13th November 1982. He studied design at The Glasgow School of Art from 1911 to 1916, and again for a year in 1917. He was most probably conscripted during the First World War and served with the Royal Army Medical Corps for around one year. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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James Milne was born on 18th May 1893. He attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1911 to 1916 as an evening student of architecture. His registered addresses were Gibson Street, Smith Street, and Westbank Place. According to the Dictionary of Scottish Architects, he was an architect's apprentice at Miller & Black. He may have been elected under the war exemption scheme. Milne was admitted for Associateship to the RIBA in 1921. He worked on valuation work for war damage repairs. Milne's speciality was ecclesiastical and factory architecture. He was the head of building construction classes at Glasgow High School for 25 years. Milne became a partner in the firm Miller & Black shortly before his death in 1949.

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Sources: Dictionary of Scottish Architects: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk.

Robert Milne attended the Glasgow School of Art from 1920–1924.

Robert Pritchard Milree was born in Partick on the 16th March 1897, one of two children of Agnes J (née Sharp) and Robert Milree, a Shipping Clerk of Clyde Trustees. Robert had a younger sister called Senga Jane. Milree attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1919 to 1920 as a part time student of Architecture. During the First World War, Milree served as a Corporal in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders battalion as well as a 2nd Lieutenant in The Corporal King's Shropshire Light Infantry. Not much is known of Milree after the war. A Robert P. Milree is noted to have married Hilda Morrison in Walsall in 1923. Also, a Robert Milree born on 16th March 1897 has been noted to have died in Hampshire at the age of 92. It is possible that this information is related. Milree is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Lives of the First World War: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/ Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk, Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

Souria Mir studied at GSA in the 1980s and modelled in the 1986 fashion show. Souria was awarded a prize from Stoddard Carpets in session 1987-88.

Source: GSA Annual Report 1987-88 GOV/1/12

Samuel Mirsky attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1909 to 1911 and from 1912 to 1916 as an evening student of life drawing. His occupation was listed variously as artist, photographic artist, and black and white artist. His registered addresses were Renfrew Street, Rose Street and South Portland Street. According to Ask Art, Mirsky was born in Odessa, Russia in 1883, and was predominantly a portrait painter. He later moved to New York City and studied at the Art Students League there. The 1911 census shows him and his family living in Islington, London. He was married to Annie (also called Genia), and his children were Kathrine (later became Kitty Brandfield) and Eda (later became Eda Mann) who both became prominent painters. Mirsky died in 1980.

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Sources: Ancestry, http://www.ancestry.co.uk; AskArt: http://www.askart.com.

Artist in a variety of media who studied at Glasgow School of Art, 1958-63, graduating in printed textiles and doing a post-diploma year. He joined the school's staff, working in the textile department until 1988, after which he worked full-time on exhibitions and commissions. Mitchell's work sometimes had a fantastic, highly imaginative element. He developed a technique for painting on slates and showed these in his solo shows at Compass Gallery, Glasgow, in 1969-71, and at Broughton Gallery in 1980. He also showed at Qantas Gallery, 1977, in London, in other mixed shows in Britain and participated in the Compass Gallery's 'The Compass Contribution' in 1990.

Gordon Mitchell was born in Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire on 15th of May 1895, one of 7 surviving children of Mary Ann and James Mitchell, a foundry pattern maker. Gordon commenced his studies at The Glasgow School of Art in 1917 taking evening classes in architecture while working as an apprentice architect. He was joined at The Glasgow School of Art by his younger brother George, an apprentice stone carver, in the 1911/12 session when both brothers took evening classes in drawing and painting. Gordon returned to study architecture from 1912 until 1914, while his brother George took an evening class in modelling in 1913. In WW1, Gordon Mitchell served as 2nd Lieutenant with the Royal Engineers 96th Field Company. The Royal Engineers played a vitally important technical role in WW1 including designing and building front line fortifications, railways, roads, water supplies and bridges. They also developed responses to chemical and underground warfare and maintained weapons, transport and communication lines. The 96th Field Company was attached to the 20th (Light) Division, an infantry division of the British Army, part of Kitchener's Army (K2) formed in September 1914. The division landed in France in July 1915 and spent the duration of the First World War in action on the Western Front taking part in many of the important offensives. In 1916, the 20th (Light) Division was involved in significant battles at Delville Wood, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette and Morval as part of the 1916 Somme campaign. In 1917, the 20th (Light) Division was involved in The Third Battle of Ypres or Passchendaele, a major offensive which began with some positive gains but exceptionally wet summer weather turned the battlefield into a quagmire. By August the offensive was failing in its objectives. The 20th Light Division took part in The Battle of Langmark, 16 – 18th August 1917, as part of the Fifth Army under General Gough. British casualties were around 15,000 men with virtually no progress made. Gordon Mitchell died on the 17th of August 1917 aged 22, most likely at this battle. He is buried at Bard Cottage Cemetery near Ypres, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, one of 1639 casualties buried or commemorated at this cemetery. Gordon Mitchell is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk ;The National Archives: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk; Forces War Records: http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk; The Long Long Trail http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk; Commonwealth War Graves Commission http://www.cwgc.org

Katie Mitchell studied at GSA in the 1980s and modelled in the 1985 and 86 fashion shows. She is the daughter of Chuck Mitchell, who taught in Printed Textiles at GSA in the 1960s and 70s.

Source: The Herald http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12085142.Chuck_Mitchell/

Margaret Mitchell attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1917 as a part-time student of drawing and painting. In the 1916-1917 session her teacher was Miss Allan. Mitchell's occupation was as a teacher. Her registered address was Lindsay Terrace, Dowanhill.

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

Robert Mitchell was a student at the Glasgow School of Art c1914. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk, Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rory More was a GSA architecture graduate, 2016.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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