Subfonds DC 124/2 - Associated papers

Elizabeth Marion Harvey was born on 22 May 1927 at 48 Cartvale Road, Glasgow, the daughter of William Harvey, insurance clerk, and his wife Jessie Hubbard.

She was an architecture student at the Royal Technical College and the Glasgow School of Art, between 1945-1950, and was elected a student member of the RIBA in 1953. She was living in Glasgow around this time.

For a time she worked for the County Council of the County of Lanark as a Junior Architectural Assistant, Grade APT. II.

She married Norman Murray Henderson on 23 March 1959 in Glasgow Cathedral. She was still a student member of the RIBA in 1960 but is not listed in directories thereafter.

The Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College had been created in 1882 by the amalgamation of Anderson's College, the Mechanics' Institution, the College of Science and Art, the Young Chair of Technical Chemistry, Allan Glen's Institution and the Atkinson Institution. The college became the Royal Technical College in 1912, and was affiliated with the University of Glasgow. The college was renamed the Royal College of Science and Technology in 1956. In 1964 it was granted university status as the University of Strathclyde.

In 1903 the joint Glasgow School of Architecture was established within the Glasgow School of Art in conjunction with the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. For the new diploma design classes were to be taught at the School of Art and the construction classes at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. The first diplomas in architecture were awarded in 1910. In 1924 the Glasgow School of Art became a university teaching institution when the University of Glasgow set up a BSc in Architecture which was to be taught at the School of Architecture. In 1964 the Royal College of Science and Technology (formerly the Royal Technical College, formerly the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College) merged with the Scottish College of Commerce to form the new University of Strathclyde. Following the merger the Glasgow School of Architecture came to an end, the last students transferring to Strathclyde degrees and graduating in 1968. In 1970 the Mackintosh School of Architecture was established. It is housed within the Glasgow School of Art and forms that school's Department of Architecture. Its degrees are accredited by the University of Glasgow and its Head is the University's Professor of Architecture.

A student common room was established at The Glasgow School of Art in the new Mackintosh building in 1909. On the completion of the Assembly Hall on the other side of Renfrew Street in 1928, the students' common room was moved across the road. This building housed the School refectory, and student bodies such as the Glasgow School of Art Students' Representative Council, which was to organise lectures, debates and entertainments. The building also had stage facilities which were used by the Drama Club. In the late 1930s a constitution was drawn up by the School Council for the establishment of a Students' Representative Council. The SRC was to be a means of communication between the student body and the School authorities, and was to represent the students and to promote social and cultural intercourse among students. The constitution was accepted in 1941 and the SRC has been ongoing since that date. The Assembly Building is still home to the SRC, and was refurbished in 2014 as part of the new Seona Reid Building by Steven Holl Architects. The SRC is now responsible for the running of the Union (The Art School), which comprises the Vic Bar and the upstairs venue, and events such as freshers week and the annual fashion show.