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Ure, Allan
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Allan McClymont Ure was involved with The Glasgow School of Art both as a student and as a member of the governing body.
He started evening classes at The Glasgow School of Art in 1912, when he was in his forties. He continued to take classes, mostly in the evenings, until 1931-32, missing only the years 1917-18 and 1929-30.
An iron founder, he was born on 12 December 1868 and lived in Hamilton Drive in Glasgow. He was connected with Allan Ure & Co which was based at the Springbank Foundry in Keppochhill Road, Cowlairs. You can see more about the company and the patented Ure interior cooker - a combined cooker, fire and water heater designed to look like a fireplace - on The Glasgow Story website @ http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSA00680. The Springbank Foundry closed in 1968.
He is described in The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture as a Glasgow amateur sculptor who created portrait busts who exhibited 10 times at the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art between 1915 and 1933.
Allan Ure served as a bailie, a legal role in local government in Scotland similar to a magistrate or bailiff, until 1925 and was also a Justice of the Peace (JP). He also served on what was then Glasgow Town Council, representing the Cowlairs Ward from 1907 to 1910.
In 1913-14 he was elected by Glasgow Town Council as a Governor of The Glasgow School of Art and continued in that position until 1930-31 when he retired. From 1917-18 he sat on the School and Staff Committee until he retired, and also sat on the Modelling and Sculpture Committee of Assessment for Diplomas, Travelling and Maintenance Scholarships and Bursaries from 1920 until 1932, after he retired.
In 1928-29 Allan Ure made a donation of £25 to the School Extension Fund and in 1932 gave £1 and 1 shilling to William Hamilton, via a subscription to the School of Art Club Prize Scheme.
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- The Glasgow Story:Springbank FoundrySources (http://www.theglasgowstory.com/advanced-search/?search=99&what=Springbank+Foundry)
- Wikipedia: Bailie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailie)
- National Library of Scotland (http://digital.nls.uk/directories/browse/archive/83686541)
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