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Emma W. H. Bertram (Born 12/12/1893) attended the Glasgow School of Art in 1918, and then again in 1920. However, she cancelled her attendance in 1920. She studied evening and day classes in Drawing and Painting. Emma lived on Newlands Road, in the Southside of Glasgow.

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Catherine Bevan designed children's garments for the 1978 fashion show.

The daughter of a Kirkcaldy solicitor, Beveridge studied at GSA from 1900 to 1905 taking classes in Drawing and Painting and Design. In 1903-1904 she studied etching under M. Delville and took Life classes with the same teacher the following year.

Little is known about her later career, though she is believed to have moved to Paris in the early years of the C20th and showed a variety of work at the Paris Salon and also at the RSA, London.

David Beveridge was born in 1898. In 1914/15 he attended evening classes in drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art, before voluntarily enlisting as a Royal Engineer during the First World War. He returned to the School from 1919 to 1922 to study architecture. Beveridge is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Thomas Johnston Beveridge was born on 15 July 1888, the son of Robertson Beveridge, (profession indeciperable) and his wife Helen Johnston. He studied at the School of Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art from 1904, receiving his diploma in July 1909. He was awarded a National Art Survey Scholarship in 1908 and a travelling bursary in 1909. He completed his training in the offices of John Kinross for whom he retained a life-long affection and shared his artistic bias and love of the Renaissance, and Sir Robert Lorimer. From 1910 to 1914 he spent time studying old work in London, Cambridge, Guildford, Hampton Court and elsewhere, and in the latter year began collecting material for his book 'English Renaissance Woodwork 1660-1730', published in 1921. In his preface he indicates the origin of this publication: 'In 1910 I found that I had the opportunity for a prolonged measuring tour. On the advice of Mr John Kinross RSA Edinburgh, I began to study the woodwork of the period of Sir Christopher Wren, with the object of publishing drawings of it in book form later on'. Several entries in the Scott Morton Letterbook of 1909 refer to Beveridge's work with Plenderleith, the firm's craftsman, on the carvings at Ardtornish, during which he must have developed an interest in fine woodwork. Beveridge was both architect and designer throughout his life.

He commenced practice on his own account in 1920, at 22 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh, and in 1924 moved to 248 West George Street, Glasgow where he specialised in domestic architecture in a Scottish traditional style. He was an assistant teacher at Glasgow School of Architecture for eight hours per week from 1928 to 1930. He was elected LRIBA in 1931, his proposers being John Watson, Thomas Lumsden Taylor and Thomas Harold Hughes.

By c1935 Beveridge had taken John Eadie Waddel Dallachy, formerly of Wylie Wright & Wylie, into partnership.
On 6 March 1939 Beveridge was elected FRIBA, his proposers being Hughes again, William Ross and Professor William James Smith. His nomination papers state that his output included ship decoration, foundry work and the design of reinforced concrete buildings, bridges etc., in association with Macdonald & Partners of Glasgow. However his obituary in the Glasgow Herald attributed Beveridge's practice with a wider range of buildings: schools, industrial estates and country houses, along with quality oak furnishings for Glasgow Cathedral and Clarence House. In his later years he worked in partnership with John Eadie Waddel Dallachy (born 1904). In 1957 he became an Associate of the RSA.
Beveridge died at the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow on 25 July 1964. He was survived by his wife Agnes Cowan Brown.

William Beveridge was a born c1883 and died in his early thirties while serving in the First World War. He studied at The Glasgow School of Art from 1898 to 1899, and in 1899 worked as a designer. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Helen Biggar was born on 25 May 1909 in Glasgow, Scotland and died suddenly on 28 Mar 1953 at age 43 in London, England. She was the eldest of three girls; her two younger sisters were named Mary (Mamie) and Florence (Flossie). She was known for being active, determined, beautiful, attractive, tiny, courageous, humorous, radiant, colourful, charming, intelligent, affectionate, loyal, compassionate, and interested in large social issues. She played the violin and knew Russian.

A series of accidents left her short in stature and with a humped back which was considered to be disabled. She was likely only around 4'9". At a young age, she had an operation to remove a tuberculosis gland in her neck. As a young infant later on, she fell off the couch damaging her spine and consequently, had to live in a spinal carriage for a while. Doctors believed she would be paralyzed forever but she eventually learned to walk again. Finally, at the age of 7, she was pushed on stairs damaging her spine again and had to wear a spinal jacket. She learned how to walk again for the third time after this event. She had also suffered from polio.

She transferred to a private school after the stairs accident, then later transferred to The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) at age 16 in 1926 because she showed an affinity for the arts. She was a student at the GSA from 1925 to 1932. At The Glasgow School of Art, she studied heraldry and textile design. She made designs for the Corporation of Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries. She was involved in life-drawings, fashion, plant drawings, cartoons, stage design, and book illustrations. She was awarded a diploma in Textile Design in 1929. She started a two-year sculpture post-grad course but never finished it and left the school in 1931. Ceramics were Helen's favourite form of art. She made illustrations for a fairy story called "Red Shoes" and "The Forerunner" by Dimitri Merezhkovsky who was a historical novelist and symbolist. Regarding extracurriculars at the GSA, she made designs for the school cabaret group and would often attend theatre productions. She also went to the GSA school balls despite not being able to dance. In 1930, she won a £10 Minor Traveller Award for modelling which would be worth roughly £835 in 2023.

Regarding her clothing, as a child, she had made clothes for her dolls. Whilst at GSA, Helen began to make her own clothes. This included wearing long wide trousers or long skirts to disguise her thin legs, even when hemlines were shortening, and was one of first girls to wear trousers in her program. She also dressed in full-sleeve blouses to hide her deformity and liked wearing sandals. She often wore long skirts or dresses to the school balls.

She lived on St. Vincent St in Glasgow which had a studio for her to work in. Often, she would frequent Charles Rennie Macintosh buildings.

Helen was very active in politics. She was a member of the Independent Labour Party in Great Britain. She was also a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Her uncle, John Biggar was a politician with the Scottish Labour Party and was Lord Provost of Glasgow between 1941 to 1943. She was also politically active during the Second World War.

She joined the Kino Film Society and GSA Kinecraft Society with Norman McLaren and produced numerous films starting in approximately 1933. He also had studied at GSA. Many of the Kino films were politically influenced. She was also involved in the Glasgow Worker’s Theatre Group.

Helen Biggar's wartime Glasgow art circle included refugee artists like Josef Herman and Jankel Adler, and talented locals like Robert Frame and Eli Montlake, some of whom joined her in London when she moved there permanently in 1945. 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 Helen Biggar married Eli Montlake at Wandsworth register office.

In 1945, she moved to London, living near the British Museum, she found work as a milliner for a French owned business and started making fancy hats for high society ladies. In 1950, she became a wardrobe mistress for Saville Theatre in London for a season of Jewish plays. Later on in the year, she joined and toured with the Ballet Rambert as a wardrobe mistress where she designed and made costumes.

Unfortunately, on 28 Mar 1953, Helen suffered a brain haemorrhage and was rushed St Mary Abbots Hospital in London. She fell into a coma and died soon after. Her cremation at Golders Green was attended by luminaries from the artistic, theatrical, and ballet worlds of London and Glasgow. She was survived by her husband.

Helen Biggar had a niece named Anna Shepherd. Anna was the daughter of Helen’s sister Flossie and Sydney d’Horne Shepherd. Anna published a novel about Helen in 2014 called Helen Unlimited: A Little Biggar. She also wrote an unpublished novel called Traces Left which was used as the primary source for the Birmingham Film and Video Workshop film called “Traces Left.” This 1983 documentary traced Helen’s work as a sculptor, film maker, and set designer. It also highlighted her work with Norman McLaren, the Glasgow Unity Theatre Group, and Glasgow Kino Group, an independent and politically active film production group. From Nov 2022 to Mar 2023, part of Biggar's GSA archive collection, including a drawing, a letter, some newspaper clippings, and the Kino Film Group minute book, were featured at the GLEAN exhibition in the Edinburgh City Art Centre.

Hugh Biggar was born in 1861 and was the eldest son of a family of seven which included five boys and two girls. His father was a semi-invalid. He was a socialist, pacifist, and a founding member of the Independent Labour Party of Great Britain. He also believed in the equality of women and men. When he was 48 years old, his first daughter, Helen Biggar, was born.

Hugh studied at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) from 1881/2 to 1885/6. He was awarded the Haldane medal in 1886 and won a number of prizes and competitions.

Florence Manson, Hugh’s wife and Helen’s mother, was very artistic and knew music, singing, and drawing. She also learned bookkeeping to help the family business called Mansons & Sons. Florence’s father was totally deaf so she also knew sign language. Her grandfather was a portrait painter, photographer, and woodcarver.

Regarding his career, he was a joiner who framed houses and eventually became an architect. Unfortunately, Hugh struggled financially, declared bankruptcy, and lost the business called Mansons & Sons. Around 1929, Hugh started a cabinetmaking and bedstead business with Florence's brother, Andrew, called Manson & Biggar.

Jessie St Claire Biggar was born on 4th April 1902. She attended the Glasgow School of Art for a few months in 1918. While at the GSA, she studied Day Classes in Design three times a week. However, it is noted that she left the School at Christmas. The note continues to mention that she "might come back", however, there is no record of her doing so, and no record of her attending the GSA in later years. She is noted to have resided in Newlands in Glasgow.

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Margaret Logan Bilsland was a student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1896-1898. Her father was John Bilsland, a nut and bolt manufacturer. She married fellow student William Cunningham Hector in 1913 (born Rio de Janeiro in 1875) who studied at GSA from 1894-1899 and would go on to be an artist and antiques dealer. Together they had one child, End, born in London in 1914. They bought Ethie Castle near Arbroath in 1928 and also owned Marlybank, Huntly Gardens, Kelvinside in Glasgow. Both are buried at Inverkeilor churchyard near Ethie Castle.

Alice Mary Binnie (born 12/07/1903) studied at the Glasgow School of Art between 1918 and 1919. Alice was a Typist Clerkess and took evening classes at the GSA in Fashion Plate. This involved learning to design clothing and costume, to draw life models, and to create illustrations for fashion advertisements, among many other things. Mary lived in Crosshill.

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Born Glasgow. Painter in oil and pastels, and etcher. Landscapes in bright colours, showing the influence of John Reid Murray and George Henry. Graduate of Glasgow University and Glasgow School of Art 1975-1980. In 1980-1983, aided by a Greenshields scholarship, studied in Paris at Atelier 17 with Stanley Hayter and attended classes at La Grande Chaumiere. Much of her printmaking done on Orkney. Paintings mostly landscape and derive from journeys in her native Scotland and the USA.

William Bryce Binnie was born in Linlithgow in 1886, the son of Helen Bryce and William Binnie. He studied architecture at The Glasgow School of Art from 1905/06 to 1910/11, during which time he undertook an apprenticeship at John Burnet and Son. In the final year of his studies he won a travelling scholarship, and spent a year in Italy. Thereafter he went to New York to work as a designer for Warren & Wetmore architects, for whom he designed the detailing of Grand Central Station. In 1913 he returned to the U.K. and took up a position as chief draughtsman for a practice in London. At the outbreak of the First World War he entlisted in the Royal Highlanders, where he was promoted to the rank of temporary captain and awarded the Military Cross with bar. In 1919 he was appointed by the Imperial War Graves Commission as an assistant architect, and in 1920, deputy director. In these roles he was responsible for supervising the erection of war cemeteries and memorials across the former Western Front, as well as designing the memorial to the Ministry at Nieuport in Belgium. Binnie is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Alfred Bathurst Binning was born on the 20th January 1894. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1915/16 to 1920/21, then two individual years of 1922/23 and 1924/25, where he took evening classes in drawing and painting, and life drawing. During this time his occupation is listed as a scientific instrument maker up to and including 1919/20, and an engineer thereafter. He remained in Glasgow, and exhibited work as a painter at the Royal Glasgow Institute between 1921 and 1938.

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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.

William Birch was a furniture maker, based in High Wycombe. In the 1840s, according to family tradition Birch began chairmaking. In 1853 he made his first appeared in trade directories. In 1883 William son's Walter started his own chairmaking business in Castle Street, after beginning some years before at the back of The Woolpack pub in Oxford Road. By 1888 another son, Charles, had started a furniture factory in Queen’s Road and carried on in business until World War One. In 1895 Walter took over his father’s firm as Birch and Company with premises in Denmark Street. The Denmark Street factory was rebuilt in 1898 according to the latest modern specifications. The factory burned down very soon after it was built, despite being designed to be fire-proof. By the end of the 1890s, Birch's was supplying furniture for Liberty's and other prestigious London stores Around 1900 the firm seems to have been one of the first to branch out into making general furniture in addition to chairs alone. Pioneered the development of Arts and Crafts-influenced furniture locally, and employed well-known designers such as EG Punnett, George Walton (who worked with Mackintosh) and Whitehead. Birch’s opened a second site in Wycombe at Leigh Street, and between 1931 and 1935 the whole business concentrated in Leigh St, in 1938 employing 350. The company was acquired by E. Gomme in 1954.

Leonardo Bistolfi (14 Mar 1859-02 Sep 1933) was an Italian sculptor, and an important exponent of Italian Symbolism.

Edith L. S. Black (17/11/1890) attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1918 and 1920. She studied day, and then evening classes in Drawing and Painting. In her second year, Edith's occupation is listed as Tracer, most likely making copies of industrial plans by hand. Edith lived in Pollokshields.

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J B Black was a lecturer in Social and Intellectual History at the University of Glasgow from 1913 to 1916. He appears on Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Jessie B. Black attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1917 and 1920. In her first year, she was awarded the Haldane Scholarship of £1, 1 Shilling to study Evening classes in Drawing and Painting, specialising in Fashion. The Haldane Scholarship of £1, 1 Shilling was awarded to six other students for Drawing and Painting that year, and was awarded on the basis of artistic talent. Jessie continued to study evening classes in drawing and painting in her second year. In her final year, Jessie is listed as working as a Designer; she also began taking evening classes in Design. Jessie was born on 16th September 1899, and lived in Renfrew.

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Sam Black graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 1936 and went on to teach in Scottish schools. He served in Europe in World War II and was decorated for bravery. He worked for the War Artists Advisory Committee, and his works for this committee are held by the Imperial War Museum in London.

After World War II he resumed teaching and in the 1950s took up a post at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Sam Black was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1977. Further information can be found in the source below.

Source: University of British Columbia Archives catalogue https://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/u_arch/black_sam.pdf

Thomas L Black 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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Bill Black was a Drawing & Painting student at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1960s. He went on to be a teacher and lecturer in art and media studies.

Jilli Blackwood studied Embroidered and Woven Textiles at GSA, graduating in 1986 with a First Class BA Hons in Art & Design. She designed and modelled garments for the 1984 and 1985 fashion shows.
Jilli was awarded the Incorporation of Weavers Educational Final Year Grant and won third prize in the Harris Tweed competition in session 1984-85. She won the Coats Paton Embroidery Award and was accepted for a Graduate Enterprise placement, in session 1985-86.
She is a renowned textile artist, the creator of the "Slash and Show" style of embroidered textiles. Her textile art has been exhibited in various institutions in the UK and the US, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Saatchi Gallery (London) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show. As well as private commissions, Blackwood has received public commissions by prestigious institutions, such as the National Museum of Scotland (Edinburgh) where she has also been artist in residence. As at July 2017, Jilli is a textile artist and designer based in Glasgow, and her best-known design is the Team Scotland parade uniform for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she was Director of Costume.

Minnie Blackwood attended the Glasgow School of Art for 10 years between 1906 and 1917. She attended a range of classes including Needlework, Drawing and Painting, and Lithography (a type of printmaking). She attended evening, Saturday, and weekday classes. Her occupation varied while she was attending the school, from being a Dresscutter Teacher, to a Teacher of Dressmaking, a Teacher of Needlework, and a Needlewoman. She also lived in a variety of areas around Glasgow, including Coatbridge, Cleveland Street, Bath Street, the City Centre, the Charing Cross area, and Partick. Minnie's date of birth is recorded firstly as 6th June 1861, and then as 6th May 1875.

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William Blackwood was a student at The Glasgow School of Art in the 1970s. He moved to the US after graduation and worked there for 5 years, before returning to Scotland, and continues to work as an artist.

Source: www.bblackwood.co.uk

David A. G. Balikley (born 01/05/1891) attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1917 and 1922. A Scientific Instrument Maker based in Hillhead, David Alex G Blaikley attended evening classes in Drawing and Painting until 1921. He was awarded the Haldane Trust Bursary in 1921. This allowed him to attend day classes for the year 1921 – 22. For this final year of study, Blaikley's occupation was listed as "Student".

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Born on 27th August 1897, Robert Blain, an Apprentice Architect, attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1913 and 1916. While completing his apprenticeship, Robert attended evening classes in Drawing and Painting. In his final year, it seems that Robert Blains enrolled at the same time as nineteen other Architects' Draughtsmen and Architects' Apprentices. It is possible that they were enrolled as part of a programme devised by an architecture firm, but no real evidence has been found of this. After leaving the Glasgow School of Art, Blain completed his apprenticeship and attended military service in 1919. He then became an Assistant at Denny and Blain Architecture Practice before being made a partner in 1921. During his time at the GSA, he lived in Newlands.

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Sources: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200731

Alison Blair studied at The Glasgow School of Art during the 1970s.

Arthur W Blair (born 07/03/1901) attended the Glasgow School of Art for one year between 1918 and 1919. He studied afternoon classes in Drawing and Painting as part of a reciprocal programme between the GSA and the Glasgow Technical College. Arthur was a Weaving Student at the College. The course at the GSA focussed on forms of pattern making and colour contrasting, in addition, the modification of natural form necessary for the adaptation to woven and printed fabrics, among other things. There was no fee charged to students of the Technical College for this course. During his time studying, Arthur lived in Bearsden.

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Mabel Anderson Blair (born 11/09/1901) attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1918 and 1925. While studying evening classes in Drawing and Painting, Mabel was also undertaking a Design Apprenticeship which she completed in 1923, becoming a Designer in her own right. For the 1922 and 1923 session, Mabel specifically studied Black and White Drawing and Painting, which included, among other things, learning to draw for lithographs and illustrations in books, as well as in magazines. Between 1924 and 1925, she studied design. Mabel was awarded the Haldane Trust Bursary for Drawing and Painting for the years 1918 -1919 and 1919 to 1920. This bursary was awarded on the basis of artistic merit. During her time at the GSA, Mabel lived on Crow Road in Jordanhill.

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Robertina Jane S. Blair was born on 20th September 1900. She attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1918 and 1922 where she studied as a Day Student in Drawing and Painting. However, in her last year, Robertina is listed as having changed course to Design and Decorative Art. She achieved her Diploma in this in 1922. During her time studying, Robertina lived in West Prince's Street, in the West End of Glasgow.

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Victoria Bruce Blance was born on 15th September 1895. She attended evening classes in Drawing and Painting in 1914-1915, assisted by a bursary awarded to her from the Rutherglen School Board. The bursary is noted to be £1, 5 shillings for two years, however, it seems that Victoria did not return for a second year of study. She is also listed as working as a Bookkeeper. During her time studying, Victoria lived in Rutherglen.

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Douglas Percy Bliss was born on 28 January 1900 in Karachi, India. He was educated at Watson's College, Edinburgh, 1912-1918, and at Edinburgh University, 1918-1922. He studied painting at the RCA under Sir William Rothenstein, 1922-1925, receiving an Associateship. From 1932 Bliss was a part-time tutor at the Hornsey School of Art and then at the Blackheath School of Art. During the Second World War he served in the RAF, at one point being posted to Scotland.
He was Director of Glasgow School of Art from 1946 to 1964 and under his guidance the School saw a re-emergence of the importance of design and the creation of the three new or reconstituted departments of Interior, Textile, and Industrial Design, raising them to the status of Diploma subjects, and providing them with fully equipped workshops. He strove to bring figures from London to teach, and those that came to Glasgow included Gilbert Spencer (formerly of the RCA and the brother of Stanley Spencer) and Eric Horstmann. Whilst in Glasgow he worked to save the Mackintosh tea-rooms, enlisting people such as Nikolaus Pevsner and John Betjeman to support the campaign and he was tireless in encouraging critical appreciation of the city's architecture. When Bliss left Glasgow School of Art in 1964 the School was listed in Whitaker's Almanac as among the six highest-ranking Art Schools in Britain.
Bliss was well known as a wood engraver and as a historian of wood engraving, although he was also known as a painter of watercolour landscapes. He selected and engraved Border Ballads for Oxford University Press in 1925 and wrote his History of Wood Engraving in 1928. He also illustrated many books throughout his lifetime before returning to painting watercolours in the 1980s. He was elected a member of the SWE 1934, and RBA 1939. He retired to Windley Cottage near Derby and was soon invited to become a Governor of the local art college, Derby School of Art. Bliss died on 11 March 1984.

Rosalind Bliss trained as a mural painter at Edinburgh College of Art but she turned to engraving later in her career. Her father was the artist and engraver, Douglas Percy Bliss, and it was from him that she learned the rudiments of wood engraving. However Rosalind's work as an engraver soon blossomed and as well as producing bookplates she has also worked as a book illustrator.

Edward Hamilton Bloomfield was born in 1898. He enrolled as a student of architecture in 1915/16 but did not attend, probably due to the introduction of military conscription in 1915. He was enrolled again in 1916-17 -- but it is not clear if he attended -- and in 1919/20, when he attended evening classes in architecture. According to the Dictionary of Scottish Architects 1840-1980, he was appointed chief assistant to Claude Conrnelius Tom Warnes, a government architect based in Leith. He later moved to Manchester and then London, where he was admitted ARIBA in 1922. Notable designs include the Liverpool Speke Airport, completed in 1939 and now converted into a Crown Plaza hotel. Bloomfield is listed in The Glasgow School of Art's World War One Roll of Honour.

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Valerie Wilson, later Bloomfield-Ambrose, was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1934. She was a painter, sculptor, art educator, actor, stage designer, costume designer, and singer. She studied at The Glasgow School of Art from 1953 to 1957 and received a Bachelor in Fine Arts. Subsequently, she went to Jordanhill Teacher Training College in Glasgow.

In 1959, she moved to Jamaica with her partner, Andrew, and taught art in various schools. She taught anatomy, life-drawing, and painting here. Valerie was a distinguished artist in Jamaica, having painted several prominent leaders in the country. In the 1970s, she moved to the United States of America with her next husband, John. She lectured at several schools and performed in theatres there. She was commissioned for portraits by various people across the state of New York. In 1980, she completed a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the American University in Washington, D.C. In 2012, she received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of the West Indies. She won numerous awards throughout her life for her artistic skills and teaching abilities. Furthermore, she was active in sports including tennis, squash, and hockey. She encouraged young women to discover careers in art instead of as a past time. Unfortunately, after living with cancer for 10 years, Valerie died on 9th January 2018 at the age of 83.

Mary Herries Blyth attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1914 and 1916. A teacher, Mary studied evening classes in Pottery and Design. She lived in Govanhill. Mary remained a teacher until her death in 1933.

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Agnes Crawford Blythe was born on 9th May 1895. She attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1914 and 1916. With a day job as a Typist, Agnes attended evening classes in Drawing and Painting for the two years she was at the GSA. In her second year, she was awarded a Bronze Medal for Drawing and Painting. Agnes lived in Tollcross.

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Lived in Busby and attended school at the Glasgow Academy, Bonar then went on to study at the Glasgow School of Art in 1959. He was awarded his Diploma in Industrial Design in 1963, and in the same year gained a Trades House Scholarship in Industrial Design worth £100.

William Drummond Bone RWS ARSA, was a painter in oil and watercolours who attended the Glasgow School of Art from 1928-1931. He won a travelling scholarship which took him to Europe. Bone also taught at GSA between 1935 and 1972. His early interest in art was encouraged by his uncle Sir Muirhead Bone. He is perhaps best known for his wartime watercolours; he also painted landscapes in oil and figurative drawings. He exhibited regularly at The Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute.

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Graduated from GSA in 2014 (BAHons) and went on to study at the RCA, obtaining a Masters in 2019. The artist’s professional name, Joy BC, is both a play on her surname and of her lifelong interest in antiquity, which is reflected in her work.

Ernestine Bonn attended the Glasgow School of Art between 1910 and 1916, and registered to attend between 1918 and 1919. Between 1910 and 1916 she studied Day classes in Drawing and Painting, with a brief intermission in 1914 to study Evening classes in Design. She was taught by Mr Musgrove and Professor Bell during her time at the GSA. In addition, she was awarded a bursary of £7 by the Secondary Education Committee in 1913. Between 1918 and 1919, she registered to attend evening classes in Pottery Design, however, it was noted that she could not attend. Throughout her time at the GSA, Ernestine lived at different addresses in Kelvinside in Glasgow. She was the daughter of Carl Roderique Louis Menni Bonn, an architect based in Glasgow who was a partner in the firm Babtie and Bonn. Ernestine died in 1982.

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