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Wright, Gordon R
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Gordon R Wright was born on the 21st of April 1897. He attended day classes in drawing and painting at The Glasgow School of Art from 1916 to 1918. He worked as a warehouseman and resided in Rowan Cliffe, Giffnock. His father Joseph Wright was an umbrella maker in the Giffnock area and presumably Gordon worked in the family warehouses. Drooko, his father's umbrella company, was the premier manufacturer of umbrellas in Glasgow from 1885. Margaret Macdonald, wife of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, was commissioned in 1895 to create an advertisement for Drooko umbrellas.
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