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Gaston Welisch studied Communication Design at The Glasgow School of Art and graduated in 2019. In 2019 he won the Chairman's Medal for Product Design. After graduation, he became a Design Researcher at GSA.

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Wilma Law Weir was born on the 1st of March 1889. She attended evening classes in drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1918 to 1919. She resided at 3 Blytheswood Square, Glasgow and worked as an art mistress.

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Robertson Weir was born on 18th November 1888, one of 5 children (Catherine, Isabella, William and Christina) of Isabella (née Munro) and Robert, a designer. Weir attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1907 to 1914 as a student of drawing and painting, and life drawing, taught by Maurice Grieffenhagen. After completing his studies at The Glasgow School of Art was offered a scholarship to study art in Paris, however because of the war he was unable to go. During the First World War, Weir served in the 5th Scottish Rifles in which he received the Victory Medal and the British War Medal. After the war he gained a teaching diploma, teaching at several schools including the Albert Secondary School, Springburn where he was Principal of Art. In 1930 he married Mabel Gertrude. He exhibited work every year at Eastwood's Civic Art Exhibition, until his final exhibition at the age of 101, in 1990. He died in 1993 at the age of 105, and his sister Christina also lived to be over 100 years old, dying in 1995 at the age of 103. An example of Weir's work, 'Commerce' can be found at Possilpark Library. Weir 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 and Glasgow By Elizabeth Williamson, Anne Riches, Malcolm Higgs

Mary Bonthron Weir was born in 1895 in Fife, Scotland. Her parents were Janet (née Bonthron) and John Weir, a blacksmith. Mary was the youngest of four brothers and four sisters. She was a day student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1917, studying Design and Drawing & Painting. During her time as a student she stayed at different locations in Lanarkshire, but she listed her original address as Dollar, Clackmannanshire.

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Margaret Evelyn Weir was born in England on 23rd July 1892. She was the daughter of Mary G. Weir and William Weir, a draughtsman marine engineer. In 1909 she first enrolled as a student at The Glasgow School of Art, where she would continue studying Drawing and Painting every year until 1916. Some of her teachers include instructor Alex. L. Jackson, in Preparatory Antique: Ornament and Preparatory Painting class; assistant professor James Huck, in Antique and Preparatory Life class; and professor W.E.F. Britten, in Figure and Landscape Composition class. During her time at the School of Art she was living with her family at 91 Fotheringay Road (Maxwell Park), and then at 190 Nithsdale Road (Pollokshields). Her sister, Cecilia Mary Weir, was also a student of The Glasgow School of Art for the session 1919/20, studying Design during that year.

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William M. Webster was born on the 21st of March 1893. It has not been possible to trace his birth certificate but it may be that his parents were William M. Webster, a brush salesman and Isabella Webster, and that he lived with his parents and younger brother, Hugh, in Byres Road in 1901. Webster spent a limited time at The Glasgow School of Art, taking an evening class in drawing and painting in the 1914 -15 session whilst working as a timber salesman. However, he did not complete the year and left to enlist with the army. He served with the Royal Engineers and survived the hostilities but did not return to The Glasgow School of Art. William M. Webster is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

Chris Webster studied Design and Visual Communications at GSA, graduating in 1980. Chris filmed the 1978 fashion show. He was awarded a maintenance scholarship for a further four terms at Glasgow in session 1978-79.
Chris is a freelance television producer and director, and has been based in the Middle East since 2013.

Andrew M. R. Webster was born on the 30th of October 1902. He attended evening classes in drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1918 to 1919. He resided at 5 Newton Terrace and worked as a clerk.

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Alfred Alexander Webster was born in Pollokshields on 19 December 1883 to Ann Jane Webster (née McCall) and George Webster, a shipbroker. He was educated at Albert Road Academy, Pollokshields, after which he joined his father's firm as a shipbroker's clerk. In June 1902 he married Maude Caroline Murdoch Cochrane, and the following year he enrolled as an evening student at The Glasgow School of Art. From 1903/04 to 1904/05, and again in 1906/07, he studied variously architecture, modelling (sculpture), drawing and painting, and stained glass under Stephen Adam Junior. In 1904 he left his position in his father's firm to work at the Stephen Adam studio, where he worked on church commissions including the Lansdowne Church in the West End of Glasgow. He became a partner in 1909, and after the death of Adam in 1910, continued as sole partner of the company until he enlisted in the 3rd (reserve) battalion of the Gordon Highlanders in February 1915. In March he received his commission of 2nd lieutenant, and in June was sent to the Ypres salient on the Western Front. Two months later he was wounded while on patrol, and died at Étaples on August 24th 1915. After his death, Stephen Adam & Co was transferred to his wife Maud, who continued to run the business until selling it in 1930 to her son George Gordon McWhirter Webster, who followed in his father's footsteps to become a highly-regarded stained glass designer. Alfred Alexander Webster is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour. An erstwhile member of the University of Glasgow Officers Training Corps, he also features on the University of Glasgow's WW1 Roll of Honour.

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Sources: The University of Glasgow Story: http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/ww1-biography/?id=2950; 'Alfred Webster's great legacy at Lansdowne Church': http://www.westendreport.com/alfred-websters-great-legacy-lansdowne-church; Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk.

Jane L. Waugh was born on the 14th of October 1901. She attended evening classes in drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1918 to 1919. She was scheduled to attend classes in the year 1917 to 1918 but is recorded as withdrawn. She resided in Broomhill and worked as a clerkess.

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Annie Waugh attended evening classes in design under Miss Macbeth at The Glasgow School of Art from 1916 to 1917. She lived in 148 Paisley Road, West Glasgow and worked as a school teacher.

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William Robertson Watt was born in Aberdeen in 2nd January 1894, one of four children of Isabella Watt (née Rennie) and William Watt, an insurance agent. Watt attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1911 to 1913 as a student of architecture. During the First World War, Watt served in the Highland Light Infantry regiment. Watt held the post of Lanarkshire County Architect from 1942 to 1957. Watt married Mary Halley Irving in Kilmarnock in 1923. He died in 15th September 1963 at Carlisle Infirmary. Watt is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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

Molly Christie Watt was born on the 26th of April 1898. She attended evening classes in modelling, drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1916 to 1919. She resided in Shettleston and worked as a clerkess.

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There are two records for students named James Watt attending The Glasgow School of Art at the time of the First World War. On the Roll of Honour, James Watt is listed as part of the Cameron Highlanders battalion. (1) A James Edward Watt was born in Montrose on the 10th of April 1889, one of two children of Bella Watt, (née Eaddie) and William Watt, a hairdresser. Watt attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1909 to 1910 as a part time student of life drawing. Whilst studying, he also worked as a journalist. In the 1911 Wales Census, a James Watt who is noted to have been born in Montrose, was present as a soldier and gunner of the Royal Garrison Artillery in Wales. His age is recorded at 22 years old, matching James' date of birth so it is likely that he travelled to Wales after attending GSA. During the First World War, Watt served as a Captain in the British Army and Army Cyclist Corps. After the war, he continued to work as a journalist and married Mabel Heriot Lindsay Macpherson, a shop assistant, on the 18th of September 1920. He died on the 23rd of September 1953, in Inchture, aged 64, of causes unrelated to the war and is buried in Sleepyhillock Cemetery in Angus. (2) A James Simon Alexander Watt was born in Peterhead, Aberdeen on the 29th of September 1894 to Mary Ann Watt, (née Henderson) and John Watt, a journeyman painter. In the 1901 census, Watt is recorded to have had two younger siblings named Margaret Allardyce and Amelia Jane. Watt attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1921 to 1922 as a full time student of sign-writing, a practice involving the design and manufacture of advertisement signs. At this time his occupation is noted as a painter. Watt married Elsie Torkington Chadwick, a widowed weaver, on the 20th of January 1922. Watt's death was recorded in February 1996 in Canterbury, Kent. At this time, he was 101 years old. James Watt is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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

George Watt was born in Aberdeen in 1865, one of two children of Christina and William Watt, a commercial book keeper. He worked from 1879 with Matthews & Mackenzie architectural practice as an assistant. He then obtained a place in the office of Campbell Douglas & Sellars in Glasgow in 1885. Watt attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1885 to 1886 as a student of architecture. He returned to Aberdeen in 1887. He attended classes in building construction at Gray's School of Art from 1887-89. Watt was admitted FRIBA on 4 March 1907. Watt was married to Jean, a daughter of George Collie, a notable advocate in Aberdeen. During the First World War, Watt served as a private in the Highland Light Infantry regiment. Watt was Justice of Peace for the County of the City of Aberdeen and served as Vice President of the Aberdeen Society of Architects. He retired in or about 1928. He died on 18 December 1931. Watt is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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

Elizabeth Mary Watt was born on 14th February 1885 in Dundee, Scotland. Her parents were Elizabeth and Alexander L. Watt, a butcher. She had three brothers and one sister. Watt was educated at Morgan Academy and worked as a milliner in Dundee at the beginning of the 20th century, but had moved to Glasgow with her family by the middle of the decade after her father left for America. Elizabeth Mary Watt worked in Glasgow for woven fabric maker Joseph M. Sadler. He had his office at 205 Hope Street and became a drawing instructor from 1906 to 1908 in the Textile Class for commercial men, an evening course given conjointly by The Glasgow School of Art and The Glasgow Technical College.

In 1905 Watt enrolled as an evening student at The Glasgow School of Art, while working as a colourist. Watt continued studying at The Glasgow School of Art until 1917, with the exception of the session 1911/12. She studied Drawing and Painting, with instructors David F. Wilson and David N. Rollo, and Life Painting, with instructors Paul Artot, James Gray and Maurice Greiffenhagen. During her time at the school she stayed first at Firpark Terrace (Dennistoun), an address shared with her brothers Alfred, Harold and Alexander Watt, and then at Aberfoyle Street (Dennistoun). During session 1909/10, Elizabeth Mary Watt was awarded the Diploma in Drawing and Painting of The Glasgow School of Art, and also the Haldane Travelling Bursary for £40. With the bursary she visited Paris, Venice, Florence, Genoa, Milan and Rome. The same session year she was appointed as Honorary Secretary for The Glasgow School of Art Club. Watt also qualified as an art teacher during this period and from 1909 until 1911 at least, she worked at the Girls’ High School (Glasgow).

After leaving The Glasgow School of Art, Watt became a freelance artist and designer and is known today as one of the ‘Glasgow girls’. She painted landscapes, flowers and children, often in fantasy settings. She became well known as a pottery painter, and was described as a “china painter” by Nan Muirhead Moffat in her series of articles “Round the studios” about women artists at work that was published by The Herald (Glasgow) in 1939.

In 1919 Elizabeth Mary Watt became an artist member of the Glasgow Society of Lady Artists, and she exhibited there almost annually with Kate Wylie. In 1947 she won the Lauder Award, an award given by artist members to the best work of art exhibited each year, for her artwork at the Crafts Exhibition. She also exhibited several times at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, from 1922 until the year of her death, and at the Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh) in 1925 and 1930. The Scottish west coast was a favourite subject. For a time shared a studio with Hesse, sister of Benno Schotz, in whose autobiography "Bronze in my Blood" Watt makes a brief appearance. Watt died in Glasgow in 1954.

Alan Watt was born in Melbourne and studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology for both his undergraduate (1962-65) and postgraduate (1973–74) awards. He was the Head of the Ceramics Workshop at the ANU School of Art from 1979 to 1998.
Watt is an important figure in Australian and international ceramics and has been artist-in-residence at a number of prestigious centres including the European Ceramic Work Centre, Heusden the Netherlands (1986); the International Ceramic Centre, Kecskemet, Hungary (1992); and the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland (1997). His work is represented in the National Gallery of Australia, most State Galleries, regional, institutional, corporate and private collections in Australia, the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia. Watt has been exhibiting in group and solo exhibitions since 1972 and was the subject of a major survey exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery in 2003. In the late 1970s the artist moved to Tanja, on New South Wales’s far south coast.

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Margaret Barclay Watson was born on 17th of March 1896. She resided in 637 Alexandra Parade, Glasgow. She attended evening classes in drawing and painting from 1915 to 1916, and Saturday classes under Mr Gray from 1916 to 1917 in The Glasgow School of Art.

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Margaret Watson attended evening classes in metalwork with The Glasgow School of Art from 1918 to 1919. She resided at 1 Sellarne Road, Jordanhill.

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Graduated from the GSA in 2018 and undertook further studies at Bishoplands Educational Trust in Oxfordshire from 2019-2021.
Watson specialises in chasing and repousse work and many of her pieces take inspiration from nature, particularly birds and woodlands.

Jeannie J Watson was born on the 19th of May 1899. She attended evening classes in drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1916 to 1919. She is listed as a Continuation Classes Student in the year 1916 to 1917. This involved submitting a portfolio in order to be considered for free evening class tuition the following year. In the year 1917 to 1918, she received the £3 Evening Education Board Bursary. She resided in both Langside and Newlands, and worked as a tracer.

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Flora Johnston Watson was scheduled to attend evening classes in design under Mr Davidson from 1915 to 1916. Her name is scored out on the registers and listed as cancelled. She worked as a Jewellers Assistant.

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Charles A Watson was born on the 8th of October 1896. He attended evening classes in drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1918 to 1920. He resided in the care of McDougall at 108 Buccleuch Street and worked in the field of engineering and machinery. There is some confusion in the records as two Charles A Watsons are recorded in the year 1918 to 1919, both residing at the same address and with similar occupations.

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Martha Ward attended both evening and day classes in fashion, drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1916 to 1919. She resided in Bridgeton and worked in dressmaking.

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Calum Ward studied at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and graduated with Stage 5 Architecture in 2018. In 2018 he won the Chairman's Medal for Architecture. He also received a commendation at the 2018 GIA [Glasgow Institute of Architects] Student Awards.

Source: https://gia.org.uk/gia-student-awards-2018-1

Mary Lindsay Wands was born on 3rd of March 1869. She attended evening classes in design at The Glasgow School of Art between 1914 and 1915 under Mr Davidson. She resided in Bath Street and was a registered dental surgeon from 1905.

George Henry Walton was born in Glasgow on 3 June 1867, the youngest of the twelve children of Jackson Walton, a Manchester commission agent, by his second wife, the Aberdeen-born Quaker Eliza Ann Nicholson: the painter Edward Arthur Walton, born near Barrhead on 15 April 1860 was his elder brother and the flower painter Constance Walton his sister. The Waltons had settled in Glasgow in 1862, Jackson becoming first a manufacturer of steam boiler coverings and later a manufacturing chemist, neither successfully. He was, however, a good amateur painter and photographer: one of his elder daughters, the decorative artist, Helen, born 1850, also had marked ability, studying at Glasgow School of Design from 1865 and becoming artistic mentor to the younger members of the family. Jackson died in 1873 leaving his family in reduced circumstances. George had to leave Partick Academy in 1881 at the age of thirteen to become a clerk with the British Linen Bank, but while in its employ he studied at Glasgow School of Art (as the School of Design had become in 1869) and took classes with P McGregor Wilson at the short-lived Glasgow Atelier Fine Arts. In 1888 Miss Catherine Cranston commissioned Walton to re-design the interiors of the tea rooms at 114 Argyle Street, Glasgow (originally opened in 1878). Walton gave up banking and opened showrooms entitled George Walton & Co, Ecclesiastical and House Decorators, at 152 Wellington Street. In 1890 he took on Robert Graham who was to become manager of the company in 1903-05, and in the same year (1890) he became acquainted with the Quaker architect Fred Rowntree through an amateur dramatic performance. In 3 June of the following year Walton married Kate Gall, a London girl whose parents were well-off with good connections, and set up house in Burnet's newly-built Charing Cross Mansions. A daughter was born in 1892. The Walton firm quickly expanded into woodwork, furniture making and stained glass and from 1896 Walton collaborated with Rowntree on Rowntree family projects in Scarborough and on a large house at Dunblane. Later in the same year Walton was commissioned to decorate and furnish Miss Cranston's Buchanan Street tea room which had been designed by George Washington Browne. In 1897 Walton followed his brother Edward to London where he set up house and studio at 16 Westbourne Park Road, Bayswater. The catalyst appears to have been the commission to design the Photographic Salon in the Dudley Gallery which came to him through his friendship with the Glasgow photographer James Craig Annan. It led to a further commission from George Davison for the Eastman Exhibition in the New Gallery in Regent Street in the same year, and in turn to a series of Eastman Kodak showrooms in London, Glasgow, Brussels, Milan, Vienna and Moscow which brought him international fame. A George Walton & Co showroom was opened in York's Stonegate in 1898 and in Glasgow a four-storey block of workshops was built in Buccleuch Street in 1899-1900. But from 1901 Walton began to undertake complete buildings having learned enough of building construction from his showroom alterations and his work with Fred Rowntree, his first being The Leys for the photographic magnate J B B Wellington of Wellington & Ward and previously of the Eastman company. Walton moved from Wesbourne Park Road to a more fashionable address at 44 Holland Park Road, and on 17 January 1903 he resigned from George Walton & Co as the time he could give to it had become limited. The York showroom closed in the same year and on 30 June 1905 the other partners wound up the company, their designer Robert Paterson setting up his own business entitled 'The Crafts'. Thereafter Walton practised exclusively as an architect and designer in private practice and was admitted LRIBA in the mass intake of 20 July 1911, his proposer being his long-standing friend Charles Edward Mallows. Since 1905 he had operated from a still grander house, 26 Emperor's Gate, Kensington, but with the outbreak of war,work tailed off. Kate died and the financial support of the Gall family died with her. Their daughter Marguerite married a doctor in the RAMC and the Emperor's Gate house was given up. In 1916 Walton moved to Carlisle as assistant architect and designer to the Central Control Board (liquor traffic) working under the supervision of Harry Redfern on a series of hurried public house refurbishments. On 20 November 1918 Walton married a colleague at the Central Control Board, Dorothy (Daphne) Jeram, the daughter of a Hampshire doctor: a son was born in 1920. Walton resigned from the Central Control Board in 1919 to resume private practice. Walton died on 10th December 1933.

Allan Walton was born in 1891, in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire and educated at Harrow. He then studied architecture under Arnold Mitchell in London and art at the Westminster School of Art under W.R. Sickert. He also studied at the Slade School and in Paris. Walton was appointed Director of Glasgow School of Art in 1943, probably on W.O. Hutchison's advice. He was already well known at the Glasgow Art School as the external assessor in Textile Design for the four Scottish Art Schools. Walton was popular with staff and students, regularly holding tea-parties for students in the director's rooms and entering into the spirit of student concerts where authority figures like himself were mocked. He had his own successful business in the south of England, Allan Walton Textiles, which produced printed furnishing materials. Their products featured designs by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Frank Dobson, and Walton himself. He also executed commissions for interior decoration, garden design, and designed electric fires and furniture. Allan Walton Textiles' products are considered to be among the finest of their type, and Walton was elected one of the first Royal Designers for Industry. There is an archive of material from Walton's firm in the Archive of Art & Design at the V&A.
Walton had been educated at Harrow. He then studied architecture under Arnold Mitchell in London and art at the Westminster School of Art under W.R. Sickert. He also studied at the Slade School of Art and in Paris. He exhibited widely in Britain and abroad, and lived mainly in London and Shotley, Suffolk. In 1948 he was appointed Professor of Textile Design at the Royal College of Art, but became ill and died on 12 September 1948 before he could take up the post.

Thomas studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1957-61. He spent his working life in schools and further education colleges and, though retired, still works part-time at Clydebank College.

Robert Harkness Wallace was born on the 20th of July 1897. He was an architecture student at The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1915, and 1916 to 1918. In the session 1917-1918, he was the recipient of the competitive Haldane evening bursary of £2 2s. He resided in Dennistoun and Burnside, working as an architect apprentice and a draughtsman.

From 1915 to 1916, he worked under the offices of cinema specialist William Beresford Inglis, and William Baillie. From 1916 to early 1917, he joined Sir William Arrol & Co as a structural draughtsman and architectural assistant. After nine months, he left to take up a post as draughtsman and resident engineer for the Air Ministry Works & Buildings Department. Thereafter he continued to work as an assistant in several offices, both architectural and engineering, joining Fryers & Penman of Largs in 1920, Brown & Kincaid of Glasgow in 1924, the Clydeview Construction Company in Bridge of Weir in 1926 and C. Davidson & Son in Paisley in 1927. He was still in the latter office when he was admitted to the Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects on 10 July 1939, his proposers being Robert Miller, Eric Alexander Sutherland and Thomas Gilchrist Gilmour.

Wallace died on 19 February 1942 at his home in Cambuslang. He was not married. The following archives hold material relating to Robert Harkness Wallace: H M Register House, and RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum.

(Sources: Dictionary of Scottish Architects)

John Robert Swan Wallace was born on 16th November 1888. He was probably the youngest son of Janet (née Sloan) and Hugh Wallace, having two brothers and four sisters. In the 1901 Scotland Census, Hugh Wallace works as a collector of rates and accountant, and the whole family lived in Cadder Eastern District (Lanarkshire County at the time). John R. S. Wallace was an evening student at The Glasgow School of Art from session 1912/13 to 1916/17. He studied Drawing and Painting, and also Life Drawing and Painting, studying the latter with Assistant Professor William Shanks in 1914/15. During his time as a student at The Glasgow School of Art, he was staying at Chryston and working as a clerk.

John R. S. Wallace enlisted in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in WW1. He received the British War Medal and the Victory Medal after the war ended. On 12th April 1920 he was discharged with the rank of Private.

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James Wallace 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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Winifred Walker was born on the 24th of January 1897. She attended evening classes in design under Mr Davidson at The Glasgow School of Art from 1914 to 1915. She resided in Munro Road, Jordanhill.

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Thomas Wood Walker was born on 24th September 1888. From 1914 to 1916 he was an evening student at The Glasgow School of Art. He studied Modelling and Sculpture, listing his occupation as Plasterer. Walker was a recipient of a Haldane Trust Bursary of £2 for the session 1914/15. The previous session he had won a Bronze Medal in Modelling as an Evening student. During his time at the School he was lodging at Princes Street in Govan. The same address was listed by fellow evening student and possible relative, modeller and stone carver John Dick Walker. In Glasgow's Register of Voters for 1914-1915, they also share accommodation with Andrew Walker, also plasterer.

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Walker graduated from GSA's Master of Fine Art course in 2011.

Robert Walker was born on 6th July 1894, the son of designer Archibald Walker and Janet Rowat Walker from St Leonard's, Bearsden. His father was a designer of printed and woven textiles, with offices at 58 Renfield St., Glasgow. Robert Walker was enrolled to the 1914/14 session at The Glasgow School of Art, but joined the army instead. He is listed in the School's World War One Roll of Honour.

From 1918 to 1920, he returned to study Drawing & Painting and Textile Design, while also enrolled at the Royal Technical College (now University of Strathclyde). At the time of his father's death in 1936, Walker registered his address at Airlie Gardens, Hyndland (Glasgow)

His sister, watercolourist Janet Baird Walker, was also a student at The Glasgow School of Art.

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John Dick Walker was born on 2nd April 1895. He was an evening student at The Glasgow School of Art from session 1913/14 to session 1915/16, studying Modelling and Sculpture. He listed his occupation as stone carver and modeller. During his time at the School he was staying at Princes Street, Govan. The same address was listed by fellow evening student and possible relative, plasterer Thomas Wood Walker. In Glasgow's Register of Voters for 1914-1915, they also share accommodation with Andrew Walker, a plasterer.

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Graduated from GSA in 2016 with a show inspired by the sea.

Jenn Morris Walker was born on the 21st of April 1898. Her name is listed variably in the registries as Jean, Jennie, Jenny, and Jenn M. She attended evening classes in drawing and painting, and later, modelling, with The Glasgow School of Art from 1918 to 1924. She resided in Temple, Glasgow and worked as a clerkess. A relative, James Walker, studied at The Glasgow School of Art from 1916 to 1925.

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Janet Baird Walker was born on 30th October 1894, the daughter of Designer Archibald Walker and Janet Rowat Walker from St Leonard's, Bearsden. She was a student at The Glasgow School of Art from session 1910/11 to 1915/16, and sessions 1919/20 and 1927/28, always listing her home address as St Leonard's, Bearsden. Walker enrolled in the Drawing and Painting class throughout the sessions; the first year with Aston Nicholas, Assistant Professor in Elementary Courses and Lectures of the Section of Design and Decorative Arts, and the second year with James Huck, Assistant Professor in Antique and Preparatory Life. During the session 1927/28, she also enrolled in the Pottery class. For the last two sessions at The Glasgow School of Art, Walker enrolled as an evening student and listed her occupation as art teacher.

Walker is considered a watercolourist who was mostly active between 1935 and 1938. She exhibited one of her works at the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, and five of them at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. The first known exhibition of her work (under the name Miss Jenny Baird Walker) was in 1918 with the painting Elma at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. In 1938 she returned to exhibit at the same institution with the watercolours Pools and Polperro, and one last time in 1943 with the paintings Fillan Water and Tigh-na-Struith.

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Janet Baird Walker was also the sister of Robert Walker, another student of The Glasgow School of Art who appears in the WW1 Roll of Honour

Sources: McEwan, Peter J.M. (1994) Dictionary of Scottish Art & Architecture (p. 588).Woodbridge, Suffolk: Antique Collectors' Club Ltd. Billcliffe, Roger. (1992). The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts: 1861-1989. A Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Volume 4: Q-Z. (p.266) Bearsden, Glasgow: The Woodend Press. http://www.ancestry.co.uk

James Walker was born on the 21st of February 1902. He attended evening classes in drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1916 to 1925. He is listed as a Continuation Classes Student in the year 1916 to 1917. This involved submitting a portfolio in order to be considered for free evening class tuition the following year. In the year 1917 to 1918, he received the £3 Evening Education Board Bursary. He resided in Temple, Glasgow and worked as a photographer and a photographer's assistant. A relative, Jenn Morris Walker, also studied at The Glasgow School of Art from 1918 to 1924.

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Isabella Crooks Walker was born on 12th July 1891. She was a day student at The Glasgow School of Art from sessions 1910/11 to 1914/15, and an afternoon student during the 1915/16 session. Through this period Walker studied Drawing and Painting with teachers Alexander Musgrove and James Huck, as well as under Professor William Edward Frank Britten, and by the end of this time she was listing her occupation as art teacher. In 1919 she returned to The Glasgow School of Art for a year as an evening student, continuing her studies in Drawing and Painting and also studying Pottery China. During the first half of her student years she was living at Allan Park, Stirling; the second half she stayed at Renfrew St, Glasgow and Kersland St, Glasgow. Between 1937 and 1938, at least, she was living in Paddington, London, working as a typist for the Ministry of Labour and then transferring as a clerk-typist to the Department of Agriculture for Scotland.

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Sources:

• The London Gazette: 11 August, 1936. Page 5277, "V.—ASSIGNMENTS OF TYPISTS.": https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34313/page/5277/data.pdf (PDF)
• The London Gazette: 9 July, 1937. Page 4452, "XV.—TRANSFERS.": https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34416/page/4452/data.pdf (PDF)

There are three different records for Hugh Walker attending The Glasgow School of Art at the time of the First World War and it is unclear which of these men is listed on the World War 1 Roll of Honour as part of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders battalion: (1)Hugh Walker was born in Galston, East Ayrshire on 6th January 1874, one of four children of Mary (née Smith) and Malcolm Walker, a grocer and later a coal miner. He had two older siblings: Malcolm and Margaret, and a younger sister Mary. In the 1891 census, Walker was recorded as a pupil teacher. Walker attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1900 to 1904 as a part time student of drawing and painting. He lived with his wife Catherine Johnstone Walker (née Connell) in Cathcart whilst he studied and worked as an Inland Revenue clerk. During the First World War, Walker may have served in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders battalion. Walker died on 13th March 1953 in Pollok, Glasgow. His death certificate notes that he was a retired Collector of Customs and Excise and also had a daughter, EM Reid. (2) Hugh Aitken Hutchison Walker was born on 29th July 1892, one of six children of Mary and William Walker, a machine fitter from Dundee. The family had moved from Scotland to Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Lancashire with the eldest children Archibald and Catherine when Hugh was born. Walker attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1909 to 1913 as a part time student of Architecture. He also attended from 1920 to 1921 after serving in the First World War. During the First World War, he served as a private in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders battalion. A page in the Gazette also notes he became a 2nd lieutenant in this battalion in 1915. The Dictionary of Scottish Architects provides information about Hugh's life before and after the war: "Hugh Aitken Hutchison Walker was articled to J Hamilton & Son of Glasgow from June 1907 until June 1912. In July of the latter year he joined Reid & Wingate as improver, remaining there until December 1914 when he joined the armed forces. He was demobilised in March 1919 and in June that year joined George Arthur & Son as a draughtsman. He left that office in December 1920, the same year in which he completed his studies at Glasgow School of Architecture which he had begun in 1907. (GSA records show that Walker began his studies at GSA in 1909) Walker then emigrated to South Africa where he was appointed draughtsman in the Public Works Department of Pretoria. He passed the qualifying exam in Cape Town in December 1922 and was admitted ARIBA on 3 December 1923, his proposers being Joseph Lockwood Hall, Ernest Marston Powers and the RIBA Council. His declaration accepting his Associateship bears a surprisingly late date of 27 April 1927, but it seems likely that this was a slip of the pen." A Mr H A H Walker is recorded to have travelled to Cape Town, South Africa in 1921 from Southampton, England. The Dictionary of Scottish Architects records a private or business address in Pretoria, South Africa from around the year 1923 to Walker. (3) Hugh Walker was born in Partick on the 24th September 1901 to Elizabeth (née Leslie) and Thomas Mitchell Walker, a school teacher. He attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1920 to 1921 and also from 1925 to 1926 as a part time student of drawing and painting whilst also working as an apprentice ship draughtsman. During the First World War, it is possible that Walker served as a private in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders battalion. After the war, Walker worked with Alexander Stephen and Sons and became a naval architect. He also served in the Second World War, looking after the Small Vessels Pool. Walker became a founding member of the RNVR Club in Glasgow and had a varied working life though did not exhibit artwork. Walker died on the 26th June 2001 in Glasgow, at almost 100 years old. A Hugh Walker is commemorated on The Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.

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Sources: Scotland's People: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/; The National Archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/; the Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture by Peter J M McEwan; Ancestry: http://www.ancestry.co.uk; A detailed

Source documenting the life of the third Hugh Walker listed can be found in The Herald here: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12176933.Hugh_Walker/; The Gazette: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/29295/page/9101/data.pdf; The Dictionary of Scottish Architects: http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/

Alexander Walker was a painter, etcher and stained glass designer who taught at Glasgow School of Art from 1898-1914. He is known to have worked with various stained-glass studios in Scotland and beyond, and designed many WW1 memorial windows, including two for the High Kirk, Rothesay (now the United Church of Bute) which were made by Stephen Adam’s studio in Glasgow, and dedicated in 1920. Walker was also responsible for the Canon Savage window in Hexham Abbey, which was made in Newcastle, probably by Thomas Davidson.. The Stained Glass Museum holds a panel depicting a nimbed Jesus Christ with his followers including two other nimbed figures, originally from the south transept of St James' Episcopal Church, Constitution Street, Leith, which was designed by Walker and made by Adam and Small.