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Isabella Elder, nee. Ure (1828 – 1905)

Isabella Ure’s parents were Alexander Ure (b.1788), a writer in Glasgow, and his wife Mary Ross (b.1800) the daughter of a grocer in the Gorbals. Alexander and Mary had married on 4 December 1819 in the Gorbals and had four children; John Francis, b. 1820, Margaret, b. 1822, d. 1829; Mary, b. 1824, d. 1826; and Isabella who was born on 15 March 1828 at 13 St. Vincent Place, Glasgow.
Isabella of Alexander Ure and Mary Rofs in Hutchesontown, 15th March, bapt. 27th 1
Alexander Ure died on 23 November 1830 when Isabella was only two years old and was buried in the Old Gorbals Cemetery alongside his two infant daughters. Mary Ure and her two surviving children moved to 145 Hill Street, Garnethill. Later John Francis was sent to a boarding school in England leaving Mary and Isabella on their own.  In the 1851 Census, they were visiting 34 Portland Street, Gorbals 2.
John Ure became a civil engineer and then Resident Engineer with the Clyde Trust. In this capacity he is likely to have met John Elder of ‘Randolph, Elder and Co.’, marine engineers on the Clyde. There would then follow an introduction to his sister Isabella.
In any event, on the 31 March 1857 ‘in her mother`s home’, Isabella, now aged 28 married John Elder (b. 1824) master engineer and shipbuilder 3. He was the third son of the marine engineer David Elder. The service was conducted by the Rev. Norman MacLeod after banns had been read in the Barony Church where Isabella was a member. An ante nuptial contract had been signed on 30 March 1857. By this agreement, Isabella was free to do whatever she wished with her own estate without reference to her husband. In the event of his death all his estate was to pass to her.
After their marriage, John and Isabella moved as tenants to 121 Bath Street (built in 1840) and were listed there with three servants in the 1861 Census 4. The business of ‘Randolph and Elder’ which was concerned in the manufacture of marine engines, continued to flourish and in 1863 the Fairfield Estate in Govan was purchased, and the firm diversified into shipbuilding. This necessitated a move by John and Isabella to Elmpark, a villa in Govan Road.
The Elders seem to have been very happy together sharing a common interest in music (Isabella played the piano) and they had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances among whom were Professor Macquorn Rankine, Regius Chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at Glasgow University and the Reverend Norman Macleod who was later to preach to Queen Victoria at Crathie Church. Both John and Isabella had strong religious convictions and were motivated to try to improve the lot of their Govan workforce. Apprentices were encouraged to attend evening classes with expenses paid where necessary; an accident fund was set up and a cooking depot provided at the gate of the shipyard. The business was expanding and when Charles Randolph retired in 1868 it was renamed ‘John Elder and Company’. However, in 1869, John Elder`s health began to decline. He and Isabella went to London to consult specialists, but it was to no avail. John Elder died in London on 17 September 1869. His body was returned to Glasgow and interred in the Necropolis on 23 September.
The business of John Elder and Co. now employed about five thousand workers and had many orders to fulfill. For nine months after John Elder`s death, Isabella ran the business single-handedly until strain and exhaustion forced her to seek partners. The senior partner nominated was her brother John Francis Ure. It was also at this time that she decided to move from Govan back to Glasgow. She bought Claremont House, a mansion in the West End which had been designed by John Baird I and built in 1842. Also, at this time because of the state of her health, Isabella was advised by her doctor to embark on a tour of the Continent.
She and a lady companion, Miss Caroline Jay set of from Glasgow in November 1870 apparently with no great enthusiasm. She wrote,

I certainly expected no enjoyment from this Continental tour but went as a duty – I was too crushed by my great sorrow and unnerved by long anxiety and fatigue during Mr. Elder`s illness and afterwards, to look to the right or the left for anything of the kind.

            They visited England, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Italy. While staying at the Hotel Danieli in Venice they first encountered the man Isabella referred to in her notes as ‘the Russian’ and later just as ‘R’. After her return to Glasgow in May 1871, ‘R’ turned up unexpectedly at Claremont House. He subsequently proposed marriage in a letter. She immediately wrote back rejecting his proposal which she had received with some alarm. In the summer of 1872, Isabella travelled to Florence to commission a bust of her late husband. On the way she received two letters from ‘R’ one of which claimed they were now engaged! While she was staying at Ems on the return journey ‘R’ turned up at her hotel. He pleaded with her to give him money to repay a debt. ‘I, very foolishly perhaps, gave him £50….‘ On this visit, ’R’ also met John Francis Ure who was visiting his sister but who was unaware of the situation between them.
All three left Ems to journey to Metz where they visited the battlefields of the Franco-Prussian war. On the way, Isabella lent ‘R’ her watch which had been a present from her husband and precious to her. In October 1872, ‘R’ turned up unexpectedly at Claremont House and was asked to stay to dinner to meet John Francis. Before dinner he apparently said to her, ‘If you don`t accept me, I`ll hunt you like a Red Indian as long as you live’. This eventually prompted Isabella to tell her brother the whole story. He visited ‘R’ and told him to discontinue his visits. Later, through her lawyer, Isabella received her letters and her watch. She never saw ‘R’ again. In the 1880s a man called Romanoff was executed in Paris. Her law agent at the time told her that ‘R’ and Romanoff were one and the same.
Isabella was now a wealthy widow with a comfortable and commodious house. Its walls were hung with pictures including A Lake Scene by Corot and Flowers by Narcisse Diaz which were later bequeathed to Glasgow. However, she felt the need to return something to the community, especially that of Govan where her husband had made his fortune. She began in 1873 by giving £5000 to Glasgow University as a ‘supplementary endowment’ to the Chair of Civil Engineering in memory of her husband. This ‘augmented the Professor`s salary ….. by £225 a year’5. Professor McQuorn Rankine was a close friend whom Isabella held in high regard. Earlier that year he had published a Memoir of John Elder which had a very favourable reception in the press. (Professor Rankine was also one of those who proposed the idea of supplying Glasgow`s water from Loch Katrine).
Isabella`s mother died in Dunoon in 1876 aged 79 years. Her death was reported by Isabella`s brother John Francis 6. Because of failing health, John Francis retired in 1878 and took up residence in Cannes. Isabella spent the winters there with him until he died of a stroke in 1883.
In 1883 Isabella gave a further donation of £12,000 to Glasgow University to endow the “John Elder Chair of Naval Architecture” the first such chair of its kind in the world. In the same year, she purchased 37 acres of land opposite Elder`s shipyard and had it turned into a park for the people of Govan at a total cost estimated at £50,000. The park was eventually opened in 1885 by the Earl of Roseberry amid great fanfare and a public holiday.

 Figure 1. Isabella Elder (The Bailie, 12 December 1883).

                                   In 1884, Isabella bought North Park House and grounds near the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow for £12,000 and gave it to Queen Margaret College (QMC) to be used for the Higher Education of Women on condition that the College raised £20,000 as an endowment fund. When Queen Victoria visited the College in 1888, Isabella was presented to her as ‘a true benefactress to women`s education’. To commemorate the visit, Isabella presented the College with a new set of gates for the main entrance. Reporting on a Bazaar organized to raise funds for the endowment of the College, the Glasgow Evening Times observed that Mrs. Elder, who gave the opening speech, ‘is a buxom, well-preserved lady, with a self-possessed manner, and she said what she had to say with calm deliberation’. 7 She was then 64 years old. As a result of the bazaar, the endowment fund was now raised, and Isabella gifted North Park house and grounds to the university in October 1893. When the College extended its teaching to include female medical students, Isabella undertook to meet the running costs for the first few years. The College became incorporated into the University of Glasgow and the first female medical students graduated in 1894.
Another project with which Isabella was involved was the School of Domestic Economy in Govan. The aim was ‘to improve the ability of women to cook nutritious meals cheaply and well and also to manage a home’. This was established in 1885 in the Broomloan Halls. Isabella met all the costs of the School and contributed money for prizes. An article praising the work of the school appeared in the British Medical Journal 8.
She was one of the subscribers (ordering two copies) to Memoirs and Portraits of One Hundred Glasgow Men in 1886. This contained entries for both her husband and brother 9. A statue of John Elder which had been paid for by public subscription was unveiled in the Elder Park, Govan on 28July 1888.
In 1891, Isabella arranged and paid for a course of lectures to be given at QMC on Astronomy. This was to continue for three years. She also gave an orrery to QMC. In her will she left £5000 to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College to found a course of lectures on astronomy. These ‘David Elder Lectures’ (named after her father-in-law) are still given today at the University of Strathclyde.
Isabella continued to take an interest in medical education for women both in Queen Margaret College and elsewhere. In October 1895 she gave an address to the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women in which she described what had been established in Glasgow at QMC. She concluded,

It is always a great happiness to me when women, wherever educated, distinguish themselves and prove their sex worthy of the higher education so long withheld.

            In 1901 as part of the 450th anniversary celebrations of the University of Glasgow, Isabella was one of four women awarded an Honorary LLD degree. This was the first-time women had been awarded honorary degrees by the university. In the same year she provided a home in Govan for the Cottage Nurses Training Scheme and donated £27,000 to establish the Elder Park Library which was opened by Andrew Carnegie in 1903.

Figure. 2 The Elder Park Library. (photograph by author)

She also gave £5000 to the building fund of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College. Another gift, the Elder Cottage Hospital was opened in Govan in 1903. Isabella paid all of the hospital expenses up till her death and in her will she gave an endowment of £50,000 to assist with running costs
 Isabella Elder died at home on 18 November 1905 leaving an estate valued at £159,404. 0s. 6d. (about £15,000,000 today). Her death certificate stated that she died of heart failure, gout, bronchitis and cerebral effusion 10. Appropriately it was signed by Dr. Marion Gilchrist – the first female medical student to graduate from Queen Margaret College.  Isabella was buried in the Elder Family Tomb in the Necropolis on 22 November 1905.

Figure 3. The Elder Family Tomb in the Glasgow Necropolis. (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported)

A statue of Mrs. Elder, paid for by public subscription, was unveiled in Elder Park on 13 October 1906 by the Duchess of Montrose. In the same year the ‘Ure-Elder Fund for Indigent Widows of Glasgow and Govan’  was set up under the terms of her will.

Figure 4. Statue of Isabella Elder in the Elder Park in Govan. (photograph by author)

The 500th anniversary of the University of Glasgow was marked in 1951 with the erection of new wrought iron gates at the main entrance. These incorporated the names of twenty-eight people associated with the University. One of these was Isabella Elder – the only woman so honoured.

Figure 5. Glasgow University Main Entrance Gates. (photograph by author)    

               

References

Much of the material for this report was taken from the biography of Isabella Elder
The Lady of Claremont House, Isabella Elder, Pioneer and Philanthropist,
by C. Joan McAlpine, Argyll Publishing, 1997.

The same author also wrote the entry for Isabella Elder in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, OUP 2004-13, May 2006.

  1. Scotland`s People, OPR, Glasgow, 1828.
  2. Scotland`s People, Census Record 1851
  3. Scotland’s People, Marriage Certificate
  4. Scotland’s People, Census, Glasgow, 1861
  5. The Bailie, 12 December 1883.
  6. Scotland’s People, Death Certificate
  7. Glasgow Evening Times, 25 November 1892.
  8. British Medical Journal, 14 June 1890.
  9. Memoirs and Portraits of One Hundred Glasgow Men etc. Maclehose, James & Sons,Glasgow, 1886
  10. Scotland’s People, Death Certificate

Appendix 1

Mrs. Isabella Elder of 6 Claremont Terrace, Glasgow, bequeathed twenty paintings to Glasgow in February 1906:

Oil. John Linnell. (1792-1882). The Disobedient Prophet (1854). Acquisition 1153. Destroyed by enemy action 1939-451

Oil. Edward Armitage R.A. (1817-1896). Hero2. (1869, exhibited R.A.) Acquisition 1154.

Oil.  Marcus Stone R.A. (1840-1921). Royalists Seeking Safety (1866). Acquisition 1155.

Oil. Antonio Canaletto.3 (1697-1768, imitator of). Grand Canal, Venice. (early 19th Cent?). Acquisition 1156.

                           
Oil. Emile Charles Lambinet. (1811-1877). Coast Scene. (1867). Acquistion 1157

Oil.  unknown4.  Nell Gwynn? (c.1765?). Acquisition 1158.     

Oil. Narcisse V. Diaz. (1807-1876). Roses and other Flowers. (1845-50). Acquisition 1159.

Oil. J. B. C. Corot. (attributed to, 1796-1875). Wooded Landscape with figures. (1865-1874?). Acquisition 1160.

Oil. Fosco Tricca (1856-1918). Looking at the Carnival (1881). Acquisition 1161.

Oil. Frederick Goodall R.A. (1822-1904). Spanish Peasants Retreating from the French Army (1846, exhibited R.A.). Acquisition 1162.

Oil. Enrique Serra. (1859-1918). The Chess Players (1889). Acquisition 1163.   

Oil. Theophile Emmanuel Duverger. (1821-1901). Playmates  (1840-1880?). Acquisition 1164.

Oil. Peter Graham R.A. (1836-1921). Along the Cliffs (1868). Acquisition 1165.

Oil. Sam Bough R.A. (1822-1878). Loch Achray (1869). Acquisition 1166.

Oil.  T. Sidney Cooper A.R.A. (1803-1902). Landscape with Cattle (1833, exhibited R.A.). Acquisition 1167.      

Oil. T. Sidney Cooper A.R.A. (1803-1902). Landscape with Sheep (1864). Acquisition 1168.

Oil. Lionel Percy Smythe R.A. (1839-1918). Children coming from School (1868). Acquisition 1169.    

Oil. Jacques d’Artois 5 (1613-1686). Wooded Landscape (after 1634). Acquisition 1170.

Oil. James Archer R.S.A. (1823-1904). Portrait of J. F. Ure (1884). Acquisition 1171.

Oil. Sir Daniel Macnee P.R.S.A. (1806-1882). Portrait of John Elder (after 1826). Acquisition 1172.

  1. Another version of this painting is in the Harris Museum and Art Gallery.
  2. This was called Hero and Leander.
  3. This was bought at Sir Richard Wallace`s sale as by Canaletto.
  4. This was painted by Sir Peter Lely and had the title, Nell Gwynne.
  5. This was by Artois ‘with figures added by Teniers’.

She also gifted busts of John Elder by Powers, David Elder, senior by Ewing and Diana by Powers.

Appendix 2

Isabella Elder`s Will – Abridged – The Scotsman, 24 November 1905, p 8.

            The trustees are instructed to hand over to the Corporation of Glasgow the following paintings in the house at 6, Claremont Terrace, Glasgow, along with the busts of John Elder by Powers, of David Elder, sen., by Ewing and of “Diana” by Powers.

“The Disobedient Prophet”, by John Linnell,
“Hero and Leander”, by Armitage,
“Royalists Seeking Safety”, by Marcus Stone,
“Grand Canal Venice”, bought at Sir Richard Wallace`s sale as by Canaletto,
“Sea Piece”, by Lambinet,
“Nell Gwynne”, by Sir Peter Lely,
“Roses”, by Diaz,
“Wood Scene”, by Corot,
“Four Faces”, by Fosco Fritta,
“Passing the Cross”, by Goodall,
“The Chess Players”, by Serra,
“Playmates”, by Duverger,
“Sea View” by Peter Graham,
“Loch Achray”, by Sam Bough,
“Cattle”, by Cooper,
“Sheep”, by Cooper,
“Children Coming from School”, by Lionel Smythe,
And landscapes by Artois, with figures added by Teniers.

They are also directed to hand over to the Corporation the portraits of the testator’s late brother and husband upon the condition that the two pictures be hung together in such gallery or other suitable place as the Corporation may see fit to locate them in. And, in addition to the paintings and portraits enumerated above the trustees are given the fullest power, should they think fit to do so, to hand over to the Corporation of Glasgow such others of the remaining paintings and watercolours as the Corporation may desire, declaring that as this bequest in intended entirely for the benefit of the public in all time coming, the Corporation shall at no time be at liberty to sell the said paintings and others or any of them.

Appendix 3

Deaths: Glasgow Herald, 20 November 1905.

ELDER – At 6 Claremont Terrace, Glasgow, on the 18th inst., Isabella, widow of John Elder, engineer and shipbuilder in Glasgow. – Funeral from 6 Claremont Terrace to the Glasgow Necropolis on Wednesday, the 22nd curt (?) at 2 p.m. to which all friends are invited; carriages at St. George`s Church at 1.40; those desiring to attend will please notify Messrs Wylie & Lochhead, 96 Union Street.

Obituary: Glasgow Herald, 20 November 1905

Mrs. John Elder of Govan. A Noted West of Scotland Philanthropist.

            By the death of Mrs. John Elder, which took place on Saturday evening at her house, 6, Claremont Terrace, Glasgow, the West of Scotland loses one of its most distinguished and philanthropic ladies and the burgh of Govan one who has been closely associated for many years with its principal industry, and who has besides conferred on it many benefactions. Than “Mrs. Elder of Govan” there is no better known on the Clydeside, and even among those who had not seen her she was respected and revered, not only because of her husband, who predeceased her by thirty-six years, but also because of the way in which she has spent her life in good works, always more than ready to anticipate any possible method whereby she could help a good cause quietly, and above all to do something for the social and moral welfare of the West of Scotland in general and the burgh of Govan in particular. In Govan her name has all along been a synonym for open-handed though discreet philanthropy, and she could always be depended upon to contribute to any movement likely to benefit the public of the burgh.

Association with Shipbuilding

            Mrs. Elder was the widow of Mr. John Elder, the famous shipbuilder and engineer, whose improvements on the marine steam engine have always been considered as second only to those made by James Watt. Mr. Elder with his friend Mr. Randolph founded the engineering firm of Randolph & Elder, and after about eight years as millwrights and engineers began, in 1860, to build ships. Their business increased immensely and ultimately became the great works which afterwards developed into Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (Limited), Govan. Mr. Elder in his later years had entire chargeof the works, which he carried on with great success until his death in1869 at the early age of forty-five. To these works or to Mr. John Elder himself it is unnecessary to make more extended reference here. Mrs. Elder was the only daughter of Mr. Alexander Ure, who was in his day a well-known writer in Glasgow, and her only brother was Mr. John F. Ure, one of the most distinguished of civil engineers, and a man who, as engineer of the Clyde Navigation Trust, laid the foundation of many of the improvements which were afterwards made in the harbor and the river. When Mr. Elder died his widow was left sole proprietrix of the extensive business at Fairfield. This position, however, she retained for only nine months. First her brother became a partner and some time later the works passed entirely into other hands and became first a private and then a public limited liability company. Mrs. Elder, however, never ceased to take a personal interest in everything that concerned Fairfield and she was a frequent and welcome visitor at the establishment, which is even yet among those who have known it long spoken of as “Elder`s Yard”.

Mrs. Elder and Govan

            Of Mrs. Elder`s methods of spending the wealth which her husband`s genius and industry endowed her it is hardly possible to speak with adequate fullness. Her private benefactions were many but of those the public were always kept in ignorance.

Figure. 6 Isabella Elder, nee, Ure (1828 – 1905), painted1886, Purchased 1917 (1414)
Millais, John Everett; Mrs Isabella Elder (1828-1905); Glasgow Museums; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/mrs-isabella-elder-18281905-85332

            

                           

         

                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

              

Academic, Scholar

Dr Annie Isabella Dunlop nee Cameron, O.B.E., M.A., D.Litt., Ph.D. (1897 – 1973).

Annie Isabella Cameron was born at 16 Grafton Square, Glasgow on 10 May 1897. Her parents were James Cameron, a civil engineer who had been involved in the construction of the Glasgow Underground and Mary Sinclair Cameron whom he married on Christmas Day 1894 at 42 Church Street, Ayr. 1 16 Grafton Square was Annie’s father’s home before his marriage. In 1901, Annie and her two siblings, Donald aged one and Mary four months with their parents were visiting James Gray, a grocer and his family at 60 Church Street, Ayr. 2 By 1911 the family had moved to Willbraepark, Overton Road, Strathaven. James Cameron was now aged 62, a civil engineer and contractor, with Mary 44, and children Annie 13, Donald 11, Mary 10 and Ewen 9. The children were all scholars. The family employed one domestic servant. 3 Mary Cameron became the tenant/occupier at Willbraepark after the death of her husband in 1921 and remained there until at least 1925. 4

            After attending school in Strathaven, Annie Cameron enrolled at Glasgow University and graduated with a first-class honours degree in history in 1919. 5 She then undertook teacher training at Jordanhill College in Glasgow. After a brief spell of teaching, she returned to academia to study for a PhD supervised by Professor R.K. Hannay at Edinburgh University. Her subject was James Kennedy, Bishop of St Andrews (1408 – 1465). She completed her PhD in 1924 6 and in 1928 was awarded a Carnegie Research Fellowship which enabled her to live in Rome and to attend the Vatican School of Palaeography. In the Vatican Archives she found a rich source of fifteenth century material relating to Scotland, in particular the Scottish Supplications to Rome. The research and publication (from 1934 to 1970) of this material became her life’s work. Her frequent visits to the archives in this connection resulted in her affectionate nickname Nonna (grandmother) of the Archivo Vaticano. 7

Figure 1. Dr Annie I. Dunlop (nee Cameron)
National Library of Scotland, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International Licence 8

                Annie Cameron was awarded a DLitt from the University of St Andrews in 1934 9 and was employed in the Scottish Record Office until she married George Dunlop (qv) on 23 August 1938 at Juniper Green in Edinburgh. 10 The couple then moved to Dunselma in Fenwick about five miles from Kilmarnock. Annie taught part-time at Edinburgh University and contributed regularly to her husband’s newspaper the Kilmarnock Standard. She was awarded an OBE in the King’s Birthday Honours of 1942 (Annie Isabella Cameron, MA, PhD, DLitt, (Mrs. G. B. Dunlop), Member of the Council of the Scottish History Association). After the war she was able to resume her research in Rome in 1947 – accompanied on this occasion by her husband. She was awarded an honorary LLD from St Andrews University in 1950 – the same year she was widowed. After her husband’s death, Dunselma was given to the Church of Scotland as a residential home for the elderly although Annie continued to live there. Thereafter she travelled widely continuing her research, lecturing and writing. She embarked on a lecture tour of the United States in 1955 promoting Scottish history. 11 She was appointed to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland on 26 April 1955 and was a member of the Scottish History Society whom she addressed on 12 December 1964 12 and the Scottish Church History Society. In 1972 she was awarded the Papal Benemerenti medal by Pope Paul VI. A particularly rare honour especially for a non-Catholic but reflecting the esteem in which she was held by the Vatican. 13

            Annie I. Dunlop died at Dunselma on 23 March 1973. 14 Her funeral service was held at Masonhill Crematorium, Ayr on 27 March. 15 She was remembered as a kind, gentle, diligent personality who was always willing to offer help to others. 16 She was instrumental in ensuring that her husband’s bequest was delivered to Glasgow and to the National Galleries of Scotland. She also donated paintings on her own behalf to Glasgow’s Hunterian Art gallery.

The Annie Dunlop Endowment was set up at the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow. Funds from the endowment are awarded bi-annually for the purpose of ‘promoting historical research into documents relevant to Scotland that are located outside Scotland’.

Figure 2.  Roses and Larkspur (Roses et pieds-d’alouette
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836 – 1904)
  Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow/ArtUK
Gift from Annie Dunlop from the estate of her husband, George B. Dunlop, 1951

           

Figure 3. Fisher’s Landing. William McTaggart (1836-1910).    
Hunterian Art Gallery/ArtUK
Gift from Mrs Annie Dunlop, widow of George B. Dunlop, 1951
Figure 4. The Seashore (Sur la plage). Eugene Louis Boudin (1824-1898)
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow/ArtUK. Gift from Annie Dunlop, widow of George B. Dunlop, 1951
Figure 5. Evening Thoughts, 1864. Robert Inerarity Herdman (1869-1888). Presented to the National Galleries of Scotland by Mrs. Annie Dunlop from the estate of George B. Dunlop, 1951. (ArtUK)

Figure 6. Loch Katrine. John Lavery (1856-1941). National Galleries of Scotland /ArtUK. Presented by Mrs Annie Dunlop from the estate of George B. Dunlop, 1951
  1. Scotland’s People, Birth Certificate
  2. Scotland’s People, Census 1901
  3. Scotland’s People, Census 1911
  4. Scotland’s People, Valuation Roll, Strathaven 1925
  5. Glasgow Herald, 26 March 1973. This is from an obituary which also claims erroneously that she was born in Strathaven and attended the Glasgow High School for Girls.
  6. University of Edinburgh, 17 July 1924, History and Classics, PhD Thesis Collection, https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/1410
  7. Close, Rob, FSA (Scot) Ayrshire Notes No. 2018/1 Spring 2018 ISSN 1474-3, Ayrshire Archaeological & Natural History Society (pub.) in association with Ayrshire Federation of Historical Societies
  8. Frontispiece of Calendar of Papal Letters to Scotland of Clement VII of Avignon, 1378-1394, Scottish History Society
  9. The Apostolic Camera and Scottish Benefices, 1418 – 1488 Humphrey Milford, OUP (pub) for St Andrew’s University 1934
  10. Scotland’s People, Marriage Certificate
  11. Ewan Elizabethet al. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women from the earliest times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press, 2007
  12. St. Andrew’s University Archives
  13. Ewan Elizabethet al. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women from the earliest times to 2004. Edinburgh University Press, 2007
  14. Scotland’s People, Death Certificate
  15. Glasgow Herald, 24 March 1973
  16. Close, Rob, FSA (Scot) Ayrshire Notes No. 2018/1 Spring 2018 ISSN 1474-3, Ayrshire Archaeological & Natural History Society (pub.) in association with Ayrshire Federation of Historical Societies
Publisher

George Brown Dunlop J. P. (1876 – 1950)

George Brown Dunlop bequeathed seven paintings to Glasgow. These were received on 5 November 1950.

Figure 1. The Shore at Deauville, 1891, Eugène Boudin (1824 – 1898),
© CSG GIC Glasgow Museums Collection/ArtUK       
Figure 2. A Mixed Bunch, 1872, Ignace Henri Jean Théodore Fantin-Latour
(1836 – 1904), (2917)
© CSG GIC Glasgow Museums Collection/ArtUK     

   

Figure 3. Roman Campagna, (ND), Sir David Young Cameron, (1865 – 1945), (2918)
© CSG GIC Glasgow Museums Collection/ArtUK      
Figure 4. Blue Flax, 1917, Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864 – 1933), (2919)
© CSG GIC Glasgow Museums Collection/ArtUK       
Figure 5. The Lily Pond, 1912, Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864 – 1933), (2920)
© CSG GIC Glasgow Museums Collection/ArtUK       
Figure 6. Arming Christian for the Fight, 1876, Sir Joseph Noel Paton,
(1821 – 1901) (2921)
© CSG GIC Glasgow Museums Collection/ArtUK       
Figure 7. The Amber Pool, 1904-10, Edward Arthur Walton, (1860 – 1922) (2922)
© CSG GIC Glasgow Museums Collection/ArtUK       

George Brown Dunlop was born on 24 November 1876 at Witch Road, Kilmarnock. His parents were George Dunlop, a reporter, and Annie Roxburgh who had married in Kilmarnock on 14 October 1869. 1 By 1881 the family had moved to 78 Titchfield Street, Kilmarnock. George aged four had two older siblings, Annie R. born 1872, and James W. born 1873 and a younger sister Helen Jane born 1878. 2

            In 1891 the family was living at 82 Titchfield Street, Kilmarnock. George was now aged fourteen and a scholar. 3 By 1901 George had become an ‘assistant publisher’ living with the same family members apart from James. 4 George Dunlop senior died in 1909 5 and with Annie Dunlop now head, the family moved to 19 Portland Road, Kilmarnock. In the 1911 census, George was thirty-four, single and a ‘publisher – employer’. His sister Helen was also living with them. 6 George’s mother, Annie Dunlop died the same year. 7

            From 1915 to 1935, George was the proprietor/occupier of a house at 44 Portland Road, Kilmarnock 8 probably remaining there until 23 August 1938 when he married Annie Isabella Cameron (qv) at Juniper Green in Edinburgh. 9 The couple then moved to Dunselma in Fenwick about five miles from Kilmarnock.

            George Dunlop senior was for many years the editor/partner of the Kilmarnock Standard newspaper which was founded 1863. George became its second editor in 1878. and the following year he formed a business partnership with William Drennan to form the firm of Dunlop and Drennan publishers of, among other things, the Kilmarnock Standard. George was highly respected as an editor and as a historian. He was a founder member of the international Burns Federation.10 When he died in 1909 George junior succeeded him initially as a partner and then as head of the firm. During his tenure he appears to have been able to maintain the prestige and standards of the paper so that it had a reputation as one of the best provincial weeklies in Scotland. 11

            Away from work George Dunlop had a great interest in art and was for a time vice-president of the Kilmarnock Art Club. He had an extensive art collection and had a gallery built onto his house at Dunselma in Fenwick to display it to the full. Included in his collection in addition to those artists mentioned above were works by William McTaggart the elder and Joseph Crawhall. It was reputed that his collection of works by D. Y. Cameron (a close friend) was the largest in the country. 12 As well as his bequests to Glasgow, he gave several paintings to Kilmarnock which are now displayed at the Dick Institute. He also donated each year the Kilmarnock Academy dux prize for art. 13

Another of George Dunlop’s interest was chess. He was a leading member of the Kilmarnock Chess Club and a past president. He was also honorary president of the Ayrshire Chess Association to whom he gifted a ‘beautiful trophy’. 14

Like his father before him, George was an elder in the Portland Road Church and a generous contributor to church funds. When he moved to Fenwick, he became associated with the church there. He was a major shareholder in Kilmarnock Football Club and an avid supporter rarely missing one of the club’s matches. 15

George Brown Dunlop died at his home, Dunselma, on 11 October 1950. After a service at Portland Road Church, he was buried in Kilmarnock cemetery. 16 A provision in his will was that Dunselma was to be given to the Church of Scotland for use as an Eventide Home. This was completed in 1956 although his wife continued to live there.

“Mr Dunlop was […] the possessor of an extensive library, which included a considerable number of volumes of Ayrshire interest, many of which had been passed on to him by his father.” Following his death his widow Annie Isabella Dunlop (1897–1973), presented the University of Glasgow with a collection of 170 volumes of English and Scottish literature from his library. 17

References

  1. Scotland’s People, Birth Certificate
  2. Scotland’s People, Census 1881
  3. Scotland’s People, Census 1891
  4. Scotland’s People, Census 1901
  5. Scotland’s People, Death Certificate
  6. Scotland’s People, Census 1911
  7. Scotland’s People, Death Certificate
  8. Scotland’s People, Valuation Rolls, Kilmarnock
  9. Scotland’s People, Marriage Certificate
  10. mykilmarnock@gmail.com
  11. https://www.kilmarnockchessclub.co.uk/gbdunlopobituary.htm
  12. Glasgow Herald, 13 October 1950, p6
  13. https://www.kilmarnockchessclub.co.uk/gbdunlopobituary.htm
  14. Ibid
  15. Glasgow Herald, 13 October 1950, p6
  16. ibid
  17. https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2223&context=ssl

Appendix

After being donated to Glasgow, the painting Blue Flax by E. A. Hornel was put on display in Glasgow City Chambers. It remained there for over twenty years until 1994 when it was stolen. At that time, it was valued at £100,000 but it was felt that it would have been almost impossible to sell. 1 The painting was later recovered having been left in a telephone box,

  1. Glasgow Herald 13 July 1994
Shipping

George Grant Blair (1859 – 1956)

Figure 1. George Grant Blair from The Bailie Cartoon Supplement 16 September 1924.

Not all donor stories are grand ones. Some donations are large, some small but sometimes even the smallest of stories can give an insight into a life well lived within a community. 

George Grant Blair was born in Karachi, India in 1859. His mother was Letitia Blair who was born in Bombay. His father was John Blair, an officer in the Indian Army. George was the oldest child of six and in 1871 the family was living in Dollar, where George and his siblings attended Dollar Academy. There is no record of the father in the census, so it is possible that he continued to serve as a soldier in India. (1)

George attended the school until 1875-76, by which time he would have been 16 or 17. The remaining family members had left the school by 1879-80 and did not appear in the Dollar census of 1881. According to Dollar’s archives, the family paid fees up to 1875-76. In 1876-77 the three youngest brothers are on the list of Free Scholars. To be a Free Scholar at Dollar, the family had to be resident in the town for at least three years and the family income had to be below a certain level. Apparently a lot of families from all over the UK came to Dollar because the fees were low and they would have a chance of a free education if the family fell on hard times. It is possible to speculate that around 1875/76 the family experienced some hardship which led the younger boys to become free scholars and which may have precipitated George and his younger brother Henry leaving the school. (2)

The Baillie, in the “Men You Know” Column (3), mentions that George, after leaving school, undertook some preliminary business training in Glasgow. The same column confirms George’s father’s occupation as an officer of the Indian Army. George, after his training in Glasgow, became a purser on McCallum Ferries, where he worked for forty years. 

McCallum Ferries was the forerunner of Caledonian MacBrayne, which serves the Hebrides to the present day. Martin Orme and John McCallum ran two separate ferries to the Hebrides. They operated two steamships, the Dunara Castle and the Hebrides. From 1877 these ships operated a summer sailing from Glasgow to Village Bay on St Kilda. This service operated until 1939, although St Kilda was evacuated in 1930. The company also served most of the other Hebridean islands and supported the Hebridean communities living there. Eventually the two companies merged into one,  which was taken over by MacBrayne’s in 1948. (4)

According to the Baillie, although George Grant Blair had no Hebridean connections, after forty years sailing around the islands he was “in person, in sympathy and sentiment a Hebridean among Hebrideans.”  The article states that George Blair became a Gaelic speaker who embraced the culture of the Hebrides and knew the history and the people of the islands well……He sings their songs and he speaks their language. He tells their stories and he voices their needs. ”  The writer also comments on his universal appeal to others. “ there is scarcely a shieling on the islands… in which he is not known and deservedly popular and there is certainly no country seat…in which he in person is unfamiliar to the residential tenant or laird. “ He was chosen for the “Men You Know“  column “because he is a first rate fellow; the singer of a capital song and a first rate teller of a rattling good tale; because he is a genial and kindly host and the staunchest of friends; because he is an efficient and enthusiastic officer, and because he is at heart in sympathy with the finest things of the people among who he has moved so long – their literature, their music and their arts.”

  The National Library of Scotland Archive has a short film of the McCallum ferry “Hebrides” touring round the islands of Scotland, ending with a visit to St Kilda. George Blair is seen briefly at the beginning of this film, shot between 1923 and 1928, which gives some indication of ferry travel (and island living) in those days.(5)

George Grant Blair died on the 27 November 1956 in Glasgow, aged 97. He left a picture of himself to Kelvingrove, a picture of a man who came from one side of the world to another and found a niche for himself in the most remote parts of Scotland.

Figure 2. George Grant Blair, Water Colour by James Miller 1942. © CSG GIC Glasgow Museums Collection.

1.Scotlands People: Census 1871, Census 1881

2.Dollar Academy Archive

3.The Baillie September 10th 1924 

4. Meek, Donald E. From the Clyde to St Kilda. Ferry Publications. October 2020

5. movingimage.nls.uk.film/film/0418. Accessed 06/08/2023

Chartered Accountant

John Findlay Carson (1883 – 1955)

Figure 1 Alexander Dennistoun and Family of Golfhill. Thomas Faed (1826-1900). Accession Number 3439. © CSG GIC Glasgow Museums Collection.

 This painting was gifted to Glasgow in 1955 by John F. Carson. 1

Alexander Dennistoun is the subject of a report listed elsewhere in this blog.

            From Scotland’s People there are two John F. Carsons who died after 1955. John French Carson who died in Greenock in 1984 and John Findlay Carson who died in Maybole in 1955. The latter seemed more likely as the donor.

            John Findlay Carson was born at St. Oswald, Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire on 9 November 1883. He was the son of David Simpson Carson, a chartered accountant, and his wife Margaret Findlay. John’s parents had married on 19 September 1878 in the Church of Scotland Manse, Kirkoswald, Ayrshire where Margaret’s father was the minister. 2 John’s older brother, David Simpson Carson was born in Kilmacolm in 1879. He also had two sisters, Jessie Muriel Carson born 1880 in Partick and Una Margaret Carson born 1889 in Kilmacolm. 3

From the 1901 Census,4 John was a pupil at Fettes College in Edinburgh. Afterwards he followed his father in becoming a chartered accountant. He joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (RNVR) and on 2 January 1910 he was appointed Assistant Paymaster.5 In 1911 he and his father were boarders at the Hydropathic Institute in Kilmacolm. 6 At about this time, he became a partner in Moores, Carson and Watson, chartered accountants based at 209 West George Street, Glasgow. (He remained with this firm for 44 years until ill-health forced his retirement).7 On 10 June 1912 he was promoted to Paymaster, RNVR followed by a secondment/connection to the Admiralty on 13 June.8 A further promotion followed in 1914 when he was appointed Acting Paymaster Commander, RNVR.

On 30 January 1914, ‘An engagement (was) announced between John Findlay Carson, younger son of David S. Carson, St. Oswald’s, Kilmacolm and Molly, youngest daughter of the late Cecil Arkcoll and Mrs W. M. MacLeod, and stepdaughter of W. M. MacLeod, Markyate Cell, Dunstable’. 9 The couple were married at St. John’s Church, Markyate on 18 July 1914 with the bride now referred to as Mary Frances.10 The Luton Reporter also had an account of what was a lavish wedding with a full list of all the wedding presents given by almost everyone in the village. The bride was the daughter of the ‘Lord of the Manor’. After the nuptials, the couple honeymooned in Switzerland and Northern Italy. 11

            On 25 August 1914, John Carson transferred from his base at Clyde to Blandford in Dorset. Blandford Camp was set up at the outbreak of WW1 as a base depot and training camp for the RNVR. The poet Rupert Brooke was stationed here at this time, and it was here that he wrote his poem ‘The Soldier’.

Figure 2. ‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke. British Library, Creative Commons, (CC BY-NC)

On 16 October 1914 John Carson was made Acting Staff Paymaster and in January 1915 he joined the 1st R.N. Brigade at RNVR, HQ. In 1916 he was posted for a time to Mudros. This was a small Greek port on Lemnos and acted as a base for the British attempt to seize control of the Dardanelles. It was also where the armistice was signed between Turkey and the Allied Forces in 1918. Later that year John embarked on H.M.T. Franconia for France. (This ship was sunk by U-boat action in October 1916 on her way from Alexandria to Marseille). In France he was posted to Rouen which was a base depot for supplies, transport, reinforcements and hospitals. During his service, he seems to have been called up frequently for duty at the Admiralty.

John and Mary’s first child, Ian Seton Findlay Carson, was born on 22 September 1916 at Kilmacolm.12 A second child, Allan McLeod Carson was born on 18 September 1917. 13 This year also saw the death of John’s father, David Simpson Carson at 12 Claremont Terrace, Glasgow. He was 67. 14 On 11 July 1918 John Carson was made Acting Paymaster Commander, Lieutenant Commander RN Division. He still held this position when on 12 December 1919 he was awarded an OBE. ‘His name was brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War for valuable services rendered in connection with the war’. 15

After the war, he returned to his position as partner in Moores, Carson and Watson. He came into possession of extensive property near Maybole in Ayrshire which comprised houses and farms at Fisherton and Drumbain (his main residence), a house near Ayr, woodlands, shootings etc. 16

In public life he became a Trustee of the Glasgow Savings Bank in 1933 and from 1947 to 1955 he was a Director of the Merchants’ House in Glasgow and Director of the Glasgow School of Art and from 1950 to 54, Director of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. In 1950 he was elected President of the Institute of Accountants and Actuaries in Glasgow. He was Past Chairman of the Glasgow and West of Scotland College of Domestic Science and a Past President of the Scottish Chartered Accountants Benevolent Association. 17

Mary Frances Carson died at Drumbain, Dunure on 21 November 1952. John Findlay Carson died three years later on 23 November 1955 at Drumbain.18 They were buried in Dunure Cemetery.

Figure 3. FindaGrave, (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17508828) Gravestone in Dunure Cemetery.

            References

  1. List of Donations to Glasgow Corporation, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre.
  2. Scotland’s People, Birth Certificates
  3. ibid
  4. Scotland’s People, Census 1901.
  5. London Gazette, 2 April 1910.
  6. Scotland’s People, Census 1911.
  7. Glasgow Herald, 24 November 1955, p11 (Obituary).
  8. London Gazette, 13 June 1912.
  9. The Scotsman, 30 January 1914
  10. Ibid. 20 July 1914
  11. Luton Reporter, 20 July 1914
  12. Scotland’s People, Births.
  13. Ibid
  14. Scotland’s People, Death Certificate
  15. London Gazette, 12 December 1919
  16. Scotland’s People, Valuation Roll, 1925
  17. Glasgow Herald, 24 Nov 1955 p11(Obituary)
  18. Scotland’s People, Death Certificate
Independent Means

Mrs Agnes Janet Fairlie nee Richmond

Agnes Janet Richmond was born to David Richmond and his wife Bethia on 29 March 1871 (1) then living at 7 Newark Drive Kinning Park. She was a twin and her brother was James Alexander Richmond (2). His birth is found in the statutory register of births but hers is not.

She lived at home until her marriage. In 1891 the family are at 53 Albert Drive.(3)

On 25 July 1906, she married John Fairlie .(4) He was a mechanical engineer and came from a family of Indian merchants. She was his second wife. There are no children of the second marriage. Both her father and her husband- to- be made Wills (5 ) (6 ) which effectively ensured that she would inherit from her father but not from her husband since there were children and heirs from his first marriage.

When Sir David Richmond died on 15 January 1908 Agnes and her mother inherited money from the estate.(7)

Agnes and her husband would appear to have spent time in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran and were benefactors of the Lamlash Parish Church (8).There is no evidence that they were permanent residents in Arran. Agnes Fairlie donated a stained-glass window by Andrew Rigby Gray in memory of her father.(9) In 1913, her husband gave a church bell in Agnes’ honour.(10) In 1934 she gave the organ to the church in memory of the Reverend Peter Robertson.(11) John Fairlie died on 19 May 1921. (12)

Figure 1. John Singer Sargent. Sir David Richmond Lord Provost of Glasgow 1896-1899 © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection

Agnes died on 10 April 1946 (13)  at 61 Clevedon Drive and in her will she donated a painting of her father  by John Singer Sargent to Glasgow. Another painting hangs in the City Chambers.

Sir David Richmond (1843-1906)

David Richmond was born in Deanston Perthshire on 14 July 1843, the ninth of ten children to James King Richmond and his wife, Mary Lauchlan .(14) His parents moved to Glasgow when he was an infant He was educated at St James Parish School then Glasgow High School. He is also recorded as having attended the Mechanics Institute. (15) .In his teenage years he was sent to Australia because he had poor health and he spent two years there. (16) He returned in 1868 to set up a tube works, which was located at Aytoun Court in Glasgow.

Figure 2. Sargent, John Singer; Sir David Richmond (1843-1908), Lord Provost of Glasgow (1896-1899) © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection

 In 1879, he joined the Glasgow Town Council representing the 14th ward (17). His most important contributions as Lord Provost were the building of the Peoples Palace in 1899 (18) and hosting the laying of the foundation  stone of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum by The Duke of York in 1897.(19) This is commemorated in Kelvingrove.

Figure 3. Kelvingrove. Photograph F. Dryburgh.
Figure 4. Kelvingrove. Photograph. F. Dryburgh.

He was greatly involved in the expansion of electricity through the city and in initiating building of several public baths and fire stations . (20) He also supervised the establishment of  Tollcross Park (21) and Richmond Park (named in his honour). (22)  He was knighted in 1899 by  Queen Victoria.(23)

Figure 5. The grave of Sir David Richmond in Glasgow Necropolis. Wikipaedia Creative Commons

 By 1900, his company had expanded and had premises at both Broomloan Road in Govan at 35 Rose Street in the Hutchesontown district. Sir David was then living at Broompark in Pollokshields. (24) After he retired he served as Chairman of the Clyde Trust.

He died at 53 Albert Drive in Glasgow on 15 January 1906 and his heir was his son James (25). Agnes and her mother inherited money from the estate.  He is buried in the Glasgow Necropolis. 26)

References

  1. Ancestry.co.uk
  2. National Records of Scotland Statutory Births 1871
  3. National Records of Scotland census1891
  4. National Records of Scotland Statutory marriages
  5. John Fairlie Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills 1921
  6. Sir David Richmond  Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills 1906
  7. Ibid
  8. Homepage.ntlworld.cm/morritek/lamlashchurch
  9. Ibid
  10. Ibid
  11. Ibid
  12. National Records of Scotland Statutory Deaths 1921
  13. National Records of Scotland Statutory Deaths 1946
  14. Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History
  15. Ibid
  16. Ibid
  17. Who’s Who in Glasgow Mitchell Library, Glasgow
  18. The Peoples Palace Glasgow Website
  19. The Glasgow Story
  20. Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History
  21. Tollcross Park web site
  22. Richmond Park web site
  23. Grace’s Guide to British Industrial History
  24. National Records of Scotland census 1901
  25. National Records of Scotland Statutory Deaths 1906
  26. Find a Grave Index
Photography, Shipping

Thomas Holt Hutchison(1861-1918)

Donation

William Graham Collection

The William Graham Collection consists of approximately 3000 glass negatives, 450 lantern slides bought and  donated by Thomas Holt Hutchison  in 1916 and originally one and now two volumes of prints 180 of  which were bought by purchase in 19121 and others donated  later  by Mrs Graham  and it is thought by other  members of the Graham family. 2 The collection is a unique photographic record of  different areas of  Scotland especially  of Glasgow  and the  includes many buildings which have long been demolished, eminent Glasgow men of the time  as well as slums and old stone carvings and photographs of ordinary citizens .3

William Graham was born in Glasgow on February 8  1845 .4   His father, William, was a ‘railway servant’ 5 and his mother was  Elizabeth  Hamilton. 6 The family home was  Little Hamilton Street (Figure 1)  off George Square between Frederick Street and John Street.                                                                                                                                       

                        

Figure 1. Extracts from Map of Glasgow and Suburbs showing Hamilton Street and Stirling Street. Joseph Swan 1854-55.© NLS

He was educated at St Paul’s Parish School in Stirling Street (Figure 1) off the High Street and later at St Andrew’s Parish  School in Greendyke Street.

His first job as a young boy was  that of carter’s boy employed by J&P Cameron. William changed occupations several times and was variously a printer working for a well-known  Glasgow Printers Bell and Bain, a cooper  with  Mathers Wine Merchant in Queen Street, a fireman with the Edinburgh to Glasgow Railway and an engine driver with the North British Railway Company (see Figure 2). 7

Figure 2. Photograph by Duncan Brown  c.1860s  © Glasgow School of Art Archives

There is also some evidence that somewhere along the line he was also an ‘iron turner’ possibly around the 1870s.8

 William was first married  to Mary Morton possibly in 1868 9 with whom he had at two children,  Elizabeth, who was born at 16 Colgrain Terrace in Springburn in 186910  and William who was born in 1871.11  Eight days after young  William’s  birth his mother died of puerperal fever. 12 In 1873 William remarried. His second wife was  Catherine Wilson   and it is on the marriage certificate that the occupation ‘iron turner’ is recorded. Catherine was a domestic servant at the time of her marriage which appears to have taken place at 131 New City Road in Glasgow, the location of her father’s grocery business. 13

According to the 1881 census William, Catherine and twelve year old Elizabeth were living  at 29 Portland Street.  This was probably during William’s  time with Mathers  Wine Merchants .14 There is no mention of son William so perhaps he did not survive long after his mother’s death. By the time of the 1891 census Catherine and William were living at 4 Colgrain Terrace in Springburn and William’s occupation was  that of ‘engine driver’ with the North British Railway Company. 15 After a series of strikes in 1890-1891 William was sacked from his job and went into business as a photographer ,having been an enthusiastic amateur for many years. He set up a studio in Vulcan street in Springburn. 16 The couple had moved to  468 Springburn Road by the time of the 1901 census  in which William’s occupation was described as ‘photographic artist’ and which remained the family home.

Figure 3. Photographic Studio, Vulcan Street. Photographer William Graham,William Graham Collection. © csglasgow.org

William was a friend of another amateur photographer ,Duncan Brown ,who had acquired a reputation for his work in the 1850s and 1860s 17(see Fig 2).

William was  a  freemason and a founding member of the Old Glasgow Club  which was founded in 1900 and which met in the Trades Hall in Glassford Street. 18 The aim of the club was to inform members of Glasgow’s history, architecture etc in the form of papers presented by members and guests. William contributed himself. For example on 21 February 1910 he gave a talk illustrated with his photographs  entitled ‘Inscribed Sculptured Stones in and around Glasgow with Lime-Light Illustrations.’ 19 He had friends in Glasgow’s artistic community for example watercolourist William Young RSW (1845-1916). They often went for walks together  and Graham took photographs while Young painted. The photograph of William Graham (Figure 3 below) was taken on a walking trip in September 1909 to the Peel of Drumry near Drumchapel. 20

Figure 4  Photograph of William Graham c1909 . William Young Collection Sketchbook 25
© csglasgow.org

 In 1914  in a letter  to the Club Secretary William suggested the Club might acquire ‘certain photographs taken by him of Old Glasgow Buildings and other items of interest…’.However William had died before this offer could be discussed. Whether ‘acquire’ meant purchase is unknown. 21

 There is little information as to how financially successful  was William’s business . His  talents as a photographer certainly did not go unnoticed by the press . The Weekly Herald  reported in February 1913, ‘Mr William Graham, photographer,…is well known in the city…his pictorial stories have been frequently called  on to supply material for illustrated lectures and they are always available for the newspaper press of the city’. 22 We  know he  had  financial dealings dealings with George Outram & Co, owners of the Glasgow Herald, as he took a photograph of a cheque from Outram’s for photographs he had taken of the 1911 Glasgow International Exhibition. 23 There is little information about William or Catherine and their day- to- day life  but William Graham will always be remembered for his hundreds of photographic prints  and plates which form the William Graham Collection .

Figure 5. Peoples Palace Staff in Winter Gardens 1903.
Photographer William Graham. William Graham Collection. © csglasgow.org

Figure 6 . Railway Men’s Band following 1891 strike.
Photographer William Graham. Burrell Collection Photo Library. ©csglasgow.org.uk

Figure 7. William Graham beside the River Kelvin. William Graham Collection. © csglasgow.org

 William Graham died  at the age of 69 on July 22 1914 at his home in Springburn of arterial sclerosis. 24  Catherine lived until 1921 and died at the family home at 468 Springburn Road. On her death certificate it is stated that Catherine was the widow of ‘William Graham  iron turner’ with no mention of her husband’s photographic career or his railway years. 25

Donor. Thomas Holt Hutchison (1861-1914)

Figure 8. Hutchison Family  © JM Macaulay

The Hutchison family came from Perthshire. Our donor’s great-grandfather Thomas Holt(1760-1855) was a tailor who in 1784  married  Betty  Miller, daughter of a mason. 26 Among their children was Joseph (1790-1854) who by 1835 was running a ‘comb warehouse ‘ at 36 High Street in Glasgow. 27 This business had expanded into that of ,’comb manufacturer, jeweller, hardware merchant and importer of foreign goods, wholesale’ by 1841. and was at 25 St Andrews Street near St Andrews Square. 28

 By 1851 Joseph  was living at 35 St Andrews Square with his wife Elizabeth ,formerly McIntyre,(1790-1865) and four children of whom John was born in 1822, and  our donor’s father Peter in 1834. Joseph is described in the 1851 census as a  merchant who employed 23 men. 29

 Thomas Holt Hutchison (THH) (1861-1918)

Early Life and Education

Our donor was born on 19 February 1861 at 211 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow the home of his parents Peter Hutchison and Marion Paterson Hutchison(or Holt).30Thomas was the eldest of five surviving children. Elizabeth was born around  1863, Joseph around 1865, Jeanette around 1867 and Marion around1870.31 By 1865 the family home was 15 Charing Cross which was off Sauchiehall Street at the junction of Woodside Crescent and Sauchiehall Street but which today has been replaced by the  M8 motorway complex. 32

Figure 9. Extract from New Plan of Glasgow and Suburbs 1865.
  J.G. Bartholomew © NLS

The family had moved to  Berkley Street by the time of the 1871 census in which THH was reported to be ‘a scholar’ .33

 His obituary states that THH had his  early education at the old Albany Academy and then  at Glasgow Academy. 34 Albany Academy, a private school for boys, was opened around 1871 at 328 Sauchiehall Street 35 and then  in 1876 moved to 44 West Cumberland Street( later changed to Ashley Street) off Woodlands Road to a new school building designed by architects H&D Barclay which was  described as ‘More like a city mansion than a school.’36 Hence the reference to the ‘old Albany Academy’. The building still stands today and is a Community Volunteer Centre. The headmaster was James N. McRaith, formerly an assistant teacher of English at Glasgow Academy (see below).37

  THH was enrolled at Glasgow Academy in Elmbank Crescent, aged twelve ,for the 1873-4 academic year in Class 4L  so  he probably attended  Albany Academy before it was moved. 38 Glasgow Academy was  a private school founded in 1845 by, ‘a number of gentlemen connected with the Free Church’ one of whom was the Reverend Robert Buchanan .39 The building was designed by Charles Wilson and situated in Elmbank Street off Sauchiehall Street.40 These premises  were opened in 1847 but the school was  moved to Kelvinbridge in 1878 after the Elmbank premises were sold  to the Glasgow School Board. During our donor’s   time  at Glasgow Academy the rector was Donald Morrison MA LLD who was rector from 1861 to 1899. Although originally a boys only school it is now co-educational. 41 THH remained at Glasgow Academy for three academic years while the family were living in nearby Berkley Street and left in 1896 at the age of fifteen. 42

After leaving school THH travelled  and studied in France and Greece before entering the family ship- owning business of J&P Hutchison. 43 The family had moved to 3 Lilybank  Terrace in Hillhead by 1881 and this remained the Glasgow home of THH’s parents  and where THH lived until his marriage and where his mother Marion died in 1888.44

Like many young men of the time THH  joined one of the many volunteer companies which were founded after  1859  at the end of the Crimean War when the British Government became concerned about home defence at times when most of the regular army was abroad fighting various wars.4 5 These volunteer companies underwent several amalgamations and  name changes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries according to the various  government initiatives of the time. We do know that THH   joined the 19th Lanarkshire Corps as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1879,46 was promoted to Captain in the renamed  5th Lanarkshire Regiment(2nd Northern Company) in 188247 resigned his commission in 188448 only to be made Captain again in April 1885.49 This regiment eventually became the 5th(City of Glasgow) Battalion the Highland Light Infantry50 in which THH served for eight years.

Business Career

According to the 1881 census   THH ,aged 20, was working as a shipping clerk, presumably   in the family business of J &P Hutchison. At this time the business was based at 69 Great Clyde Street. 51 J&P Hutchison was founded around 1869  by our donor’s uncle John Hutchison who was joined in the enterprise by his brother  Peter, our donor’s father. 52 The company’s ships traded with Ireland ,France  and Portugal as well as around the coast of Scotland. 53 When Peter Hutchison died in 1899 the company had majority shareholdings in  approximately thirteen ships. 54 THH became sole partner in the company in September 1911.55 In 1919 the company was taken over by The Royal Steam Packet Company and later became part of the Moss Hutchison Line. 56

THH had many other business interests and investments including shares in the Caledonian Railway Company, J&P Coats Ltd, The Lanarkshire Steel Company Co Ltd, The Ailsa Shipbuilding Company of which he was a director and The Galway Granite  Quarry and Marble Works Ltd to name  but a few. 57 The Hutchison family also owned several tenement properties in Glasgow  which were rented out for example several tenements around  Dumbarton Road in Partick. 58

Public Service

 THH , following his father Peter’s  example,  served on Glasgow City Council. 59 After many invitations  in  1910  THH  agreed to stand for and was elected    one of the councillors for Park Ward and in 1915 became  a Bailie.60 Possibly  his most valuable contribution   was  during his chairmanship of the Libraries Committee  where he was instrumental in setting up the Commercial Library, the first such library in Britain outside London  which was open to the public. The idea was first suggested in October 1913.61

Figure 10. Thomas Holt Hutchison. The Bailie. Men You Know No 2302  November 29 1916. By permission National Library of Scotland.

The first Commercial Library was to use part of the Stirling’s Library at 21 Miller Street, which had formerly housed the Mitchell Library before it was moved to its current premises in North Street ,Charing Cross.  The City Librarian was encouraged to ‘utilise as far as possible furniture, books ,periodicals etc already available in the City Libraries and to add such further books etc and minor fittings as necessary’.62 The City Librarian had visited the London Chamber of Commerce , the Imperial Institute  and the Guildhall Library for information and assistance in setting up Glasgow’s Public Commercial Library. 63 A booklet was produced to describe the library and its function. Four thousand copies were printed at a cost of £22.64

The Commercial  Library was formally opened by the Lord Provost on 3 November 1916 ,’ with a large and representative attendance of businessmen’.65 The library was intended to serve the needs of local industry and commerce with ‘business directories, telephone directories with world- wide coverage, book stock on company law, economics, insurance, taxation, trade publications, patents and trade -marks for the UK and overseas and newspapers and statistical publications’. 66 One of the councillors paid tribute to Bailie Hutchison’s ‘zeal and energy…in helping to establish and develop this Commercial Library’. 67

There were 15,000 enquirers and visitors in the first few months and it was decided more books and other materials were needed .68 By March 1917 all four thousand copies of the Commercial Library pamphlet had been distributed and the Libraries Committee agreed that a second edition be published. 69  In 1955 the Commercial Library, along with Stirling’s Library, was  moved to to the former Royal Bank of Scotland building  in Queen Street which had been bought by Glasgow Corporation in 1949  and  remained there until its closure  in 1983 when its function was transferred to the Mitchell Library. 70   THH was also responsible for the building and opening of  Langside Library which was the first in Glasgow to experiment with the open access method and which  proved to be such a success that the system was adopted throughout the city, overcoming  the prediction in some quarters that the result would be “all sorts of sacrilege, destruction and even theft. 71

THH also took a deep interest in the Glasgow Trades House and in September 1917 was elected Deacon Convenor of the Incorporation of Hammermen. He was treasurer of the Hillhead United Free Church ‘and gave valued service to several philanthropic institutions’.In 1915 he was elected to the Magistrates Bench. 72 He was a well-respected magistrate and councillor and remained on Glasgow Corporation Council until 1918.73

Family and Home Life.

In 1890 THH married Florence Riley at the Church of Scotland in Uddingston. Florence was the daughter of James Riley, general manager of the Steel Company of Scotland  whose home was Brooklands Villa  in Uddingston.74 The couple began married life at 4 Windsor Quadrant(now Kirklee Quadrant) in Kelvinside where they remained until around 1897-1898.75 The building was a red sandstone tenement block which was built in the later 1890s 76 and  rent was £105 per year plus £20 feu duty.77 During this period Florence gave birth to a son, James Riley in 1893 and a daughter Marion, known as Maisie, born in 1895. 78 The Hutchisons  moved to 16 Crown Terrace in Dowanhill, around 1898- 1899 where a second son Thomas Holt was born in 1899.79 16 Crown Terrace was one of a row of terraced houses designed by James Thomson and  built around 1880 consisting of two floors ,an attic and a basement. 8016 Crown Terrace remained their Glasgow home until the death of THH in 1918.81

The Hutchisons also had a country home. Sometime before June 1910 82 the Hutchison’s had become tenants of Cranley House and Estate near Carstairs, which was rented  along  with two other shooting estates. One can presume that THH enjoyed shooting, a fashionable pastime among the rich at the time. Cranley   was owned by the Monteith family. 83 The Hutchisons appear to have played a full part in the local community with many references  in local newspapers to participation in local events such as Mrs Hutchison’s attendance at the  Carstairs Horticultural Society Flower Show 84 and  THH’s participation in local political meetings such as that to support the prospective Unionist Candidate for South Lanark in November 1912.85

World War One

THH continued his involvement in the  Volunteer Movement  during WW1 and was a Major commanding the Third Battalion Lanarkshire Volunteers  attending such events as a  Parade Inspection at Lanark .86 He was also involved in the formation of the  Biggar Company of the Third Lanarkshire Volunteers. 87

The Lanarkshire Volunteer Regiment was part of the World War One equivalent of what was to become the Home Guard during World War Two.  The Volunteer Movement had been replaced in the Haldane Act of 1908 by the Territorial Movement, with each volunteer  regiment being attached to  a regiment of the Regular Army. When World War One broke out many of the Territorial Regiments went to fight with the Regular Army  leaving the Home Front with little defence. At the outbreak of the  war there had been calls from those under or over the age of enlistment or those unable to enlist for other valid reasons to form volunteer battalions to be trained  for home defence in case of invasion. These ‘civilian defence companies’ were organised all over the country and  were largely self -financing  through membership fees. At first  their value was not officially recognised by the War Office as it was thought these civil defence companies would deter recruits from enlisting in the regular Army. However it was gradually realised that these men could carry out duties which would free up trained troops. The Central Association of Volunteer Training Corps  (VTC) was set up in London to coordinate these civilian defence groups with a similar body in Scotland. There was much public and press pressure to have official recognition of the VTC. 88

The Scottish Volunteer Association (SVA )was formed in the spring of 1915 under the presidency of Lord Roseberry and was officially recognised by the War Office in May 1915. The aim of the SVA was to co-ordinate and supervise the volunteer movement in Scotland. A communication was sent to Lord Provosts, Provosts of all burghs in Scotland and to the Lord Lieutenants of all counties to bring all the volunteer forces within their respective areas in touch with the new organisation. 89

 In  March 1916  due to the introduction of conscription and much public pressure the dormant 1863 Volunteers Act was reinvigorated and regulations were drawn up by the War Office to organise the Volunteer Training Corps which was to be organised strictly on a county level and administered by the Lord Lieutenant of each county. Recruits had to be 17 with  ‘no alien to be enrolled’. Commissions were to be temporary and the  VTC were eventually allowed to wear the khaki uniform   with  a red armband inscribed with the letters ‘G R’. So at last the former civilian defence organisations became  volunteer  regiments  named after the county concerned. The demands upon the services of the VTC grew and they were used for example to guard munitions factories, on the rail network and to bring in the harvest.90

 Figure 11. Uniforms of the Volunteer Training Corps.
Central Assoc Volunteer Corps  ©Public Domain

 The VTC trained regularly in Drill Halls, took part in many shooting competitions and had to attend summer training camps, for example at Lanark Race Course.91 Some members of the public did make jokes rather unkindly about the VTC referring to the ‘GR’ as meaning ‘Grandpa’s Regiment’ or ‘Government Rejects’. But by July 1918 they were being issued Enfield Rifles and Hotchkiss Mk 1 machine guns by the War Office. 92

Florence Hutchison, along with her daughter  Maisie, also contributed to the war effort from Cranley by being one of the founders of the local Red Cross Society. They helped to recruit seventy volunteers who knitted socks and other garments for soldiers. 93 In 1915 they played a role in the National Egg Collection, an appeal for one million eggs ‘for our wounded soldiers and sailors’. The Hamilton Advertiser reported Mrs Hutchison’s thanks to local farmers for contributing 404 eggs which were sent to London. 94 They also entertained convalescing soldiers at Cranley. 95 Maisie became secretary of the Red Cross Society and her work was greatly valued. 96 She married Lieutenant J. E. Glynn Percy at Carstairs Parish Church in March 1918.97

THH’s two sons, James Riley  Holt and Thomas Holt also played their part in the war. James Riley Holt obtained a commission in the  Lanarkshire Yeomanry  at the outbreak of the war and was later attached to the 19th Lancers in France after which he transferred to the 17th Cavalry in India . He also had a distinguished career in World War Two serving with the French Resistance and was awarded the DSO. After the war he became Conservative MP for Glasgow Central and was awarded a baronetcy. 98 The younger son, Thomas Holt, had to wait until March 1918 when, aged 18, he joined the Royal Naval Air Service as a Probationary Flight Officer. 99

The J&P Hutchison shipping fleet also played its part by transporting Red Cross goods and ambulances to France free of freight charges 100 and  suffered casualties  with at least three ships being lost. The Chloris  and the  Dartmoor appear to have been lost or badly damaged as compensation was paid by the British Government. 101 The Chloris had been torpedoed off Flamborough Head on 27 July 1918 with the loss of three lives including that of the master.102 The Atalanta, sailing from Galway to Glasgow with a cargo which included coal, timber and scrap iron, was  torpedoed off the coast of Connemara  on 14 March 1915 but the crew of sixteen who were all from  Cushendall  in County Antrim managed to  escape by lifeboat. 103 The ship ,though  taking, water was towed to harbour and the damage later repaired .104

Figure 12. Captain and some of the  crew of SS Atalanta. © Daily Record and Mail

Thomas Holt Hutchison died   at Cranley on 22 June  1918 aged fifty -seven of pernicious anaemia 105 so did not live to see the end of the war. The Hamilton Advertiser reported that his death ,’ was not unexpected ,none the less it was a surprise to the community’. At the beginning of  the proceedings  of the Northern Police Court in Glasgow just after his death THH was paid a tribute by Bailie John Bryce who referred to his death as ,’a great loss to the city’ 106 THH was buried at the Glasgow Necropolis on 25 July 1918.107

In 1921 Mrs Hutchison and the Hutchison Family presented an organ to Carstairs Parish Church in memory of Thomas Holt Hutchison. 108

Notes and References

1. Glasgow Corporation Minutes 10/12/1912 p. 312

2. William Graham Collection. Mitchell Library Special Collections

3. William Graham Collection  www.csglasgow.org.uk

4. http://www.scotlandspeople.co.uk Old Parish Registers. Births.

5. www.scotlandspeople.co.uk Old Parish Registers. Deaths.

6. op cit ref 4

7. The Times 04/08/1914 . William Young Collection. www.csglasgow.org.uk

8. www.scotlandspeople.co.uk Statutory Marriages. William Graham to Catherine Wilson 1873

9. www.scotlandspeople.co.uk Statutory Marriages. William Graham to Mary Morton 1868

10. www.scotlandspeople.co.uk Statutory Births. Elizabeth Graham 1869

11. http://www.ancestry.co.uk   UK Census 1871

12. www.scotlandspeople.co.uk Statutory Deaths. Mary Graham or Morton 1871

13. op.cit ref 8

14. www.ancestry.co.uk UK Census 1881

15. as above 1891

16. www.glasgowstories.co.uk

17. as above

18. Minutes of the Old Glasgow Club .  Mitchell Library Archives.

      TD1541/1 1905-23 OGC  Volume 1.1900

19. Transactions of The Old Glasgow Club .Vol 2 1908-12 p.112 pub Aird and

    Coghill 1913.  Mitchell Library Archives  

20. William Young Collection. Sketchbook 25. www.csglasgow.org.uk

21. op cit ref 18   24/04/1914

22. Weekly Herald  13/02/1913

23. op cit ref 3

24. www.scotlandspeople.co.uk Statutory Deaths  William Graham 1914

25. as above Catherine Graham or Wilson 1921

26. www.scotlandspeople.co.uk Old Parish Registers Marriages 1784

27. Glasgow Post Office Directory 1835-6

28. as above 1841-2

29. www.ancestry.co.uk UK Census 1851

30. www.scotlandspeople.co.uk Statutory Births Thomas Holt Hutchison 1861

31. as above

32. Glasgow Post Office Directory 1865-6

33. www.ancestry.co.uk UK Census 1871

34. Hamilton Advertiser  29/6/1918 p.5

35. Glasgow Post Office Directory  1871-2

36. McKean Charles et al.  Central Glasgow :An Illustrated Architectural Guide      RIAS 1993

37. MacLeod, Ian  The Glasgow Academy 150 Years. The  Glasgow  Academicals’ War Memorial Trust 1997. P27

38. Glasgow Academy Archives

39. op cit MacLeod p1

40. as above p.4

41. op cit ref 37

42. op cit ref 38

43. Carluke and Lanark Gazette  29/06/1918  p.1

44. www.ancestry.co.uk UK Census 1881

45. Grierson, James  Records of The Scottish Volunteer Force 1859-1908.

     Blackwood 1909.Pp 143-146

46. London Gazette  23/12/1874

47. Naval and Military Gazette  20/12/1882

48. as above  2/01/1884

49. Army and Navy Gazette 18/04/1885

50. op cit ref 45

51. Glasgow Post Office Directory 1868-9

52. as above 1869-70

53. North British Daily Mail 13/03/1873 p.8

54. www.scotlandspeople.co.uk  Will of Thomas Holt Hutchison

55. Galway Express 4/11/1911 p.4

56. Middlemiss, Norman  “Forgotten  Fleets”. Shipping Today and Yesterday.

      12/01/2021

57. op cit ref 54

58. www.scotlandspeople.co.uk  Valuation Rolls 1895  Peter Hutchison

59. Glasgow Herald 8/09/1899

60.  Hamilton Advertiser  29/06/1918 p. 5

61. Glasgow Corporation Minutes. April-November 1913 p 2722

62. as above 1916 p.  2710

63. as above p.  2211

64. as above  November-April 1917 p. 168

65. Daily Mail and Record  4/11/1916   p. 6

66. www.theglasgowstory.com

67. op cit ref 65

68. op cit ref 64

69. Glasgow Corporation Minutes. 14/03/1917 p. 960

70. as above 

71. The Bailie. Men We Know. No 2302 p3. November 29 1916

72. Carluke and Lanark Gazette  29/06/1918 p.1

73.  Domesday Book of Glasgow: Members of the Council . Mitchell Library

       Archives C/8/3

74. www.scotlandspeople.com Statutory Marriages

75. www.scotlandspeople.com Statutory Births Marion Hutchison 1895

76. Urquhart, Gordon R. Along Great Western Road. An Illustrated History

     of Glasgow’s West End. Stenlake Publishing. 2000

77. www.scotlandspeople.com Valuation Rolls 1895 Thomas Holt Hutchison.

78. as above  Statutory Births. Thomas Holt Hutchison 1899

79. Glasgow Herald 5/10/1899 p1

80. Small ,Sam  Greater Glasgow  p.45 published R.I.A.S. 2000

81. op cit ref 54

82.  Carluke and Lanark Gazette  25/06/1910 p. 3

83. www.scotlandspeople.com Valuation Rolls 1915 Thomas Holt Hutchison

84. op cit ref 82

85. Carluke and Lanark Gazette  30/11/1912

86. as above 15/09/1917 p.2

87. Carluke and Lanark Gazette  10/03/1917 p.2

88. www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Training_Corps

89. Milngavie and Bearsden Herald  21/05/1915 p. 6

90.  Daily Record and Mail 4/11/1916 p. 6

91. Carluke and Lanark Gazette 01/09/1917

92. www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volunteer_Training_Corps

93. Hamilton Advertiser 29/08/1914 p.5

94. Hamilton Advertiser28/08/1915 p.5

95. Carluke and Lanark Gazette 14/08/1915 p. 2

96. Hamilton Advertiser 29/06/1918 p. 5

97. Carluke and Lanark GazetteL 16/03/1918 p.5

98. The Times  19/11/1979 p. 26

99.  UK Navy Lists 1888-1970 April 1918 p.97

100. The Bailie. Vol LXXX1X. 19/11/1916.Men We Know 2302

101. op cit ref 54

102. www.naval_history.net/ww1LossesBrMS1918htm

103. Daily Record and Mail   18/03/1915 p.3

104. Daily Record and Mail 19/03/1915 p.3

105. www.scotlandspeople.co.uk Statutory Deaths

106. op cit ref 96

107. Glasgow Herald  26/06/1918 p.5

108. CLG  03/06/1921 p.3

Acknowledgements

Thanks to the following for the help given in the production of this report:-

Staff of the Glasgow City Archives and Special Collections at the Mitchell Library Glasgow, the National Library of Scotland, Glasgow Academy Archives and Glasgow School of Art Archives.

Private Means

*Ellen Stewart Carrick (1857-1933)

Ellen Stewart Carrick (1857-1933

Ellen Stewart Carrick was the daughter of John Carrick. She lived on private means all her life. She donated a painting of her father John  Carrick by Sir Daniel Mcnee to Glasgow Art Galleries.  On 7 April 1920 the Parks Committee accepted the donation.(1)

Figure 1. John Carrick City Architect : Sir David Mcnee © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection

Ellen Carrick (or Helen or Nellie) was born on 11 August  1857 at Dundonald, Ayrshire to John Carrick  and his wife Jane Stewart.(2) She was the youngest of  7 children.(3.) _There is little to learn about her early life which is not covered by her father’s history.Until his death she lived at home. In his Will she inherited the contents of the family home at 5  Park Quadrant and the rents of the properties at number 5 and number6 foras long as she was unmarried. (4 ) She did not marry and during her life time she moved to England and can be found at different addresses sometimes living with relatives. In the 1911 census she is at the home of her sister, Jane  Thomson, at North Gate, Regents Park, London.(5 ) In 1918, she donated some of her father’s effects to Glasgow museums from an address in Hasselmere,Surrey.(6 ) In 1920 she is living at 10 Promenade Terrace in Harrogate from where she donated Sir Daniel MacNee’s painting of her father.(7).  Again in 1926 she gave more of her father’s. collection of coins and other objects from an address in Southbourne Rd. Bournemouth.(8 ) She died on the 14 March 1933 in Abbey Road Marylebone.London.(9 )    There is a separate stone in the Necropolis,(10) Glasgow   erected by a niece which reads:

For the daughters of John Carrick. Ellen Stewart Carrick  and Marion Dunn Carrick,.wife of Thomas Chalmers.

John Carrick, (1819-1890) City Architect

John Carrick was born at Larbert on 6 May 1819 to William and Marion Carrick. His father was a hotel keepe..(11) He lived in Denny as a child.  At the age of 12 he entered the office of John Bryce, Architect in Glasgow as an apprentice. (12) When he had served his time, he went into partnership with James Brown and the firm was Brown and Carrick.(13 ) In 1844 he became Superintendent of Streets in Glasgow.   In 1854 he was appointed Superintendent of Public Works and then City Architect. (14 ) In 1866 he developed and  became responsible for the City Improvement Trust Schemes.(15) In this position he played a large part in the layout and redevelopment of Glasgow which forms much of the city centre as we know it today.

He was involved in the planning of many of the city’s landmarks among these the City Halls, what is now formally known as The Merchant City and the relocation of the Maclellan Arch on Glasgow Green.(16 ) When the foundation stone for the New Municipal Buildings was laid in 1883, he had a prominent position behind the Lord Provost and the City Council in the grand procession which went from Infirmary Square to George Square.(17 )

By 1861(18 ) he is living at 5 Park Quadrant in the Park District and ,from his will, (19 )we know that he owned one other house there at number 6. In 1871(20 ) he was living at Arran View in Prestwick.

He died in 1890 (21 ) and is buried in the Necropolis in Glasgow with his father and mother. (22) His gravestone reads:

In memory of MARION DUNN wife of William Carrick died September27 1843 aged 45 years WILLIAM CARRICK died April6 1853 aged 56 years JANE STEWART wife of John Carrick born December 5 1817 died November 6 1836 JOHN CARRICK born May 6 1812 died May 20 1890 for forty six years City Architect and Master of Works of this city SAMUEL CARRICK second son of John Carrick born September 30 1848 died June 17 1893

Figure 2. The Bailie. John Carrick City Architect. © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums and Libraries

.As befits a man who by the nature of his profession shaped the character and geography of Glasgow and particularly that of the Merchant City there are many sources relating to his achievements. Preeminent among these are articles in The Dictionary of Scottish Architects.,(23 ) and in Glasgow City of Sculpture (24)which within a detailed account of his life list all of the buildings in which he had an interest.  Articles in The Merchant City Trail (25 ) and the Bailie (26 ) all Fserve to underline his importance as a Glasgow citizen and are useful for further reading.

Glasgow Museums holds a bronze sculpture and a marble bust by Pittendreigh McGillivray. (27 ) He is also portrayed in the painting of Queen Victoria’s visit to the 1888 Exhibition by John Lavery. (28)

Figure 3. John Carrick: Bronze. Pittendriegh Mc © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection. Gillivray
Figure 4. John Carrick: Marble. Pittendreigh McGillivray  © CSG CIC Glasgow Museums Collection

References

  1. Glasgow City council
  2. National Records of Scotland Statutory Births 1857
  3. National Records of Scotland census 1861
  4. National Records of Scotland Wills and Testaments  1890
  5. 1911 England census accessed via Ancestry.co.uk
  6. Archives of Glasgow Museums
  7. Minutes of Glasgow city council 1920
  8. Archives of Glasgow Museums
  9. England and Wales Death Index accessed through Ancestry .co.uk
  10. Records of The Necropolis Glasgow
  11. National Records of Scotland Statutory Births 1819
  12. Dictionary of Scottish architects accessed via their website
  13. Ibid
  14. The Bailie Mitchell Library Glasgow ref,92004BAI
  15. Dictionary of Scottish architects accessed via their website
  16. Ibid
  17. New Municipal Buildings Glasgow
  18. National Records of Scotland census 1861
  19. National Records of Scotland Wills and Testaments  1890
  20. National Records of Scotland census 1871
  21. National Records of Scotland Statutory Deaths 1890
  22. Records of the Necropolis Glasgow
  23. Dictionary of Scottish Architects accessed via their website
  24. www.glasgowsculpture.com
  25.  www.glasgowmerchantcity.net/trail.htm
  26. The Bailie Mitchell Library Glasgow ref,92004BAI
  27. Collections of Glasgow Museums
  28. ibid
Carter

George Robb (1833-1909)

Figure 1. George Robb, Carting Superintendent, Caledonian Railways – The Railway Magazine Sep 1907

George Robb came from an old family of carters who provided a service transporting goods to many towns in south west Scotland, at a time when the railway network was in its infancy.(1) The Robb family was prominent in the Kilmarnock area, where the earliest Scottish railway to be incorporated by private Act of Parliament was built between Kilmarnock and Troon in 1808. As the railway system developed, George moved to Glasgow where he joined the Caledonian Railway Company  and progressed to become Superintendent of their Carting Department.(2)

Figure 2. Typical Goods cart early 20th century – The Railway Magazine Sep 1907

George was born in December 1833 in Kilmarnock to James, Innkeeper of The Wheatsheaf in Kilmarnock and a goods carrier between Glasgow and Carlisle, and Elizabeth Hutchison. George was educated at Kilmarnock Academy and left school to work with his uncle, Charles Robb at his carting business in Glasgow, based in Brunswick Street before moving to West Nile Street. (3) George succeeded to the business on his uncle’s death. George is recorded as living at 102 West Nile Street by 1861 and described as a railway agent. (4) By 1871 his address is 223 Hope Street and he was recorded as Carting Superintendent for Caledonian Railway. (5)

Carting services were widely publicised in local newspapers. In 1837/38, for example, J & W Robb  (possibly related to George) advertised carrier services from Dumfries to Sanquhar and Thornhill ‘from opposite Mr Hairsten’s, High Street, every friday’. (6) All kinds of goods were carted, including alcohol. When George became Carting Superintendent he assumed responsibility for the efficient management of the service and checks were made to ensure that goods arrived at their destination intact. At one time carriers from Glasgow were met halfway to Kilmarnock by carters from that town. On one occasion it was discovered that there was ‘a great leakage in strong waters somewhere on the road. He (George Robb) rode to the rendezvous by devious hidden paths, and found the men indulging freely in the wine of the country. There was no more illicit jollification on Mearns moor’.(7)

The railway system in Scotland developed rapidly in the early nineteenth century. The Caledonian Railway was established by Act of Parliament in 1845 as a result of the absorption and amalgamation of a number of existing lines. By 1866 the Scottish Central and Scottish North Eastern Railways had been absorbed by The Caledonian.(8) Although the need for carting declined as the railways expanded there was still a demand to service the transport of goods between destinations not covered by the railways. The Carting Department of The Caledonian Railway was set up on 1 February 1870 and George was offered the job of managing the Department, which he accepted, and had free reign to organise the business as he felt fit. The Company acquired George’s stud of horses. By 1906 the company ran its own carting services from 55 of its stations and employed 1000 staff and over 1000 horses.(9) George had a renowned knowledge of horses and a reputation for acquiring only the best on the market. He related a story that when he was only ten years old he purchased his first pony, which he sold the following day for a profit of £5. Later in life he exhibited and judged horses at agricultural shows.(10)

One of George’s responsibilities was the purchase of healthy working horses. On 15 April 1881 a John Rankin from Largs sold a bay horse for £68 to George Robb, at the cattle market in Glasgow. On 20 April George wrote to Rankin to advise that the horse was unsound, being a ‘roarer’ ( a condition whereby a deformity in the throat causes the animal to ‘roar’) and should be returned. The case went to court and was found in Robb’s favour.(11)

The railway employed several contractors, Messrs Wordie and Company being one of the most prominent. The firm had been connected with The Caledonian Railway since its inception and had a reputation as being equivalent to the English firm of Messrs Pickfords. At the end of the nineteenth century John Wordie and Peter Wordie, sons of the company’s founder William Wordie,  were partners, and worked with George Robb at Caledonian Railway Company in the management of its carting services.(12) 

Figure 3. John and Peter Wordie – The Railway Magazine Sep 1907

By 1891 George was living at 17 Scott Street, a dwelling with 11 rooms. Also resident were a house keeper and a domestic servant. The building no longer exists and is replaced by Glasgow School of Art structures.(13)

George died at his home at 17 Scott Street, Glasgow on 27 February 1909 (14) and was interred in his family grave at The High Kirk churchyard in Kilmarnock. Mr Robb was a well known and respected figure and a special train conveyed mourners to his funeral in Kilmarnock. The service was conducted by the Reverend Mr Gunson, minister of Ramshorn Church, Glasgow, formerly St David’s Church, where many prominent Glasgow merchants are interred.(15) George Robb left an estate of almost £80,000 including a bequest ‘to the Kirk Session of The Ramshorn Church the sum of one thousand two hundred pounds, the free annual revenue of which shall be paid to the minister of the church for the time being’, that being the Reverend Gunson at the time. Bequests were also made to friends and business associates including John Wordie and Peter Wordie.(16)

Figure 4. Headstone, George Robb, High Kirk, Kilmarnock – http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173297828/George-Robb

George bequeathed two paintings to Glasgow…

Figure 5. Herring, John Frederick; The Meet; Glasgow Museums; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/the-meet-84477.

1) The Meet by John Frederick Herring Snr 1795-1865. Herring specialised in painting horses, especially hunting and race horses and his clientele included Queen Victoria. 

2) Coming from Church by David Adolf Constant Artz 1837-1890. Artz was a dutch painter who  was associated with the Hague School.

Figure 6. Artz, David Adolph Constant; Coming from Church; Glasgow Museums; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/coming-from-church-83090

References…

(1) Local history Section, Burns monument Centre, Kilmarnock,

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmarnock_and_Troon_Railway

(3) Local history Section, Burns monument Centre, Kilmarnock – Obituary, Kilmarnock Standard 6/3/1909

(4) Census 1861 (1861 644/06001/06013), http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

(5) Census 1871 (1871 644/06025/06010), http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

(6) Pigot & C0, Directory for Dumfries and Maxwelltown 1837/38, https://dgnhas.org.uk/wood-pigot-personal/pigot-personal-dumfries-maxwelltown-1837-38

(7) Local History Section, Burns Monument Centre, Kilmarnock – Obituary, Kilmarnock Standard      6/3/1909

(8) The Caledonian Railway Association (https://crassoc.org.uk/web/node/9)

(9) The Railway Magazine, Diamond Jubilee Edition Sep 1907, Article by G Robb, Carting Superintendant, Caledonian Railway.

(10) Local history Section, Burns monument Centre, Kilmarnock – Obituary, Kilmarnock Standard 6/3/1909

(11) Court Case, Rankin v Caledonian Railway Coy – https://www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/ 5a8ff81b60d03e7f57eba253

(12) The Railway Magazine, Diamond Jubilee Edition Sep 1907, Article by G Robb, Carting Superintendant, Caledonian Railway.

(13) Census 1871 (1871 644/06025/06010) http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

(14) Deaths (Statutory register of deaths 644/9 158) http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

(15) Local history Section, Burns monument Centre, Kilmarnock – Obituary, Kilmarnock Standard 6/3/1909

(16) Wills and Testaments (SC36/51/150, Glasgow Sheriff Court Wills) 

http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

iron and Steel, Merchant

Andrew Lusk (1853 – 1927)

Figure 1. Andrew Lusk National Archives of Scotland, (NAS) GD501

                                                                

Paintings Donated:     

Figure 2. Barmouth, John Wright Oakes, ARA (1820 – 1887)(Accession Number 1732) © CSG GIC Glasgow Museums Collection. (Art UK).

Figure 3. St. Ives Bay, John Brett, ARA (1831 – 1902) (1733) Exhibited RA 1881© CSG GIC Glasgow Museums Collection./ArtUK

Fig. 4  A Dutch Mill, Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, RA (1793 – 1867) (1734)
© CSG GIC Glasgow Museums Collection/ArtUK

Figure 5. Castle Campbell, near Dollar, Richard Beavis (1824 – 1896) (2239) Exhibited RA 1896. © CSG GIC Glasgow Museums Collection                

                 

( Barmouth, St. Ives Bay and A Dutch Mill, were received in February 1928 from Andrew Lusk`s executor. Castle Campbell near Dollar was given by his niece Mrs. Berkeley Robertson, nee. Janet Lusk on 29 August 1941. However, the catalogue entry at Glasgow Museums Resource Centre for this painting has a note added ‘to be described as presented by the late Andrew Lusk, Windsor, 1941’).

Andrew Lusk was born at ‘Lusk`s Cottage’, Coatbridge, Lanarkshire on 3 June 1853. 2 He was the son of James Lusk, a master baker and his wife Janet Reid. (James was born in Colmonell, Ayrshire in 1817. Janet was born in Cambuslang also in 1817). 3 There were two other children, John Lusk, born 14 July 1848 (the father of Janet Lusk) and Margaret Earl Lusk, born 3 March 1851.4 All were at Lusk`s Cottage in the 1861 Census along with two servants. Andrew`s father employed two men and forty-three boys. 5 The family is listed in Armorial Families 6. (Appendix 1)

Figure 6. James Lusk.  National Archives of Scotland, (NAS) GD501

 

 Figure 7. Janet Reid. National Archives of Scotland, (NAS) GD501

Andrew attended Glasgow High School in the 1860s and seems to have had an interest in and an aptitude for art from an early age which was further developed while at school. 7

            From the 1871 census, Andrew, aged 17, was living with his parents, brother and sister at Glasgow Road, Bothwell. He was employed as a clerk. 8 By 1881 his siblings had both married and he had moved with his parents to Hamilton Road, Ferniebank, Bothwell. He was now aged 27 and a ‘commercial clerk in the iron trade’. 9 Sometime after that he moved to England. His father died in 1890 and Andrew was one of his executors. His address then was 3 Fenchurch Avenue, London. The 1891 census found him, aged 37 and single, at The Dell, Woking in Surrey. (The Dell was one of the larger houses in Woking but has since been demolished 10). He was now an ‘iron and steel merchant’ and employed two servants. 11 Woking would seem an unlikely place to find an iron and steel merchant. However, the town had an excellent train service to London so Andrew could have commuted to his business in the city.

      It is possible that his career as a steel merchant came about after his brother John married, in 1876, Jessie, the daughter of David Colville, the founder of the Colville steel firm. 12 An account of his assets after his death showed that Andrew was receiving a pension from Colvilles. 13

     By the time of the 1901 Census, Andrew had moved to 7 Queen`s Gardens, Osborne Road, New Windsor. 14 He later named the house St. Moritz after a holiday in Switzerland in 1909.

     Andrew’s uncle Sir Andrew Lusk who was Lord Mayor of London in 1874 and head of the firm of Andrew Lusk and Co. died in 1909. His funeral took place at St. John’s Church, Southwick Crescent, London on 24 June 1909. Andrew was in attendance as one of the ‘chief mourners’. 15 Andrew later wrote a memoir of his uncle which is held in the National Archives of Scotland. Dame Eliza Lusk, widow of Sir Andrew, died the following year. Andrew was an executor of her will and was left the sum of £1000.

     In the 1911 census, Andrew was at the Regent Hotel, Leamington Spa, 16 presumably on holiday because by this time his residence was in Windsor, Berkshire.  He also owned a house Roseisle in Glasgow Road, Perth. This was occupied by his sister Margaret and her husband Alexander Sutherland who was a local minister. After Andrew`s death, the house was to have been left to Margaret during her lifetime. However, she predeceased him. His mother Janet who was living on private means moved in with her daughter after the death of her husband in 1890. She died at Roseisle in 1899 and Andrew was present to register her death. 17

        In 1915 an appeal was made for subscribers to ‘extinguish the debt incurred by the King Edward VII Hospital in Windsor’. Andrew donated fifteen guineas and a further twenty the following year 18.

            Andrew had a great interest in art, music and books. In his house in Windsor he had a collection of paintings, sculpture and many fine editions of books. These were to be kept in the family after his death as ‘I cannot bear the thought of my Fine Editions being handled by careless young people’. He owned a library of music manuscripts which was left to his nephew the Rev. David Colville Lusk who sold it to St. Andrew`s University in 1952.19 He also owned a violin and piano which he may have played. His intention, according to his will was that his paintings be given to the National Gallery in Edinburgh. Were the National Gallery to refuse them, they were then to be offered to Glasgow and to Perth. In the event, Glasgow received four paintings as detailed above. The Sandeman Library in Perth was given five pictures, five marble busts and three pedestals (Appendix 2). The Royal Scottish Academy was given a tea urn believed to have belonged to Sir Henry Raeburn 20. In his will he left £100 to his former housekeeper. After his death she wrote to his executor thanking him for the legacy and stating that as Mr. Lusk`s housekeeper, she ‘had spent many happy years in his service’. (As well as a detailed will, he left a four-page document of ‘Testator’s Suggestions to his Executors’ on how to dispose of his assets e.g. who should be employed to sell his furniture and books and where to find various items mentioned in his will. He also suggested the best firm to pack up his pictures for donation). 21 

            He also left a painting by Fred Roe ARA, The Landing of Nelson at Yarmouth to the Castle Museum at Yarmouth. (This painting had been exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1909). His own sketches – views of Rome, Florence, Holland, Sweden etc. were to be kept in the family ‘if at all possible’.

                        Andrew Lusk never married and died at his home in Windsor on 12 October 1927. It is likely he had been ill for some time as illness prevented him attending the funeral of his sister who died in Perth the previous year.22 He was buried in a lair in St. Andrew`s Cathedral Churchyard, Fife which he had purchased in 1899.23   His will contained instructions for the design of his tombstone! It was to be ‘in the same style and colour as Lord Playfair`s close by’! According to his will which was probated in Edinburgh his personal estate was valued at £25, 190. 5s. 8p. The Scotsman reported that he ‘left £100 to the Royal Society of Musicians, and £300 to the United Free Church of Scotland Foreign Missions, in memory of his mother Janet Lusk’ and gave details of his donation of paintings to Edinburgh and Glasgow. 24  The Motherwell Times also carried a report of his estate and noted that he was a director of David Colville and Sons, Ltd., steel manufacturers. 25

       The following are two extracts from the Minutes of the Corporation of Glasgow, sub-committee on Art Galleries and Museums:

23 December 1927:  The Superintendant reported that he had received a letter from Messrs. Gard, Lyell and Co., London, Law Agents for the trust estate of the late Andrew Lusk, St. Moritz, Windsor, intimating that the deceased under his will, had bequeathed to the National Gallery, Edinburgh, certain pictures, and that six of these pictures specified in said letter might, if desired, be available for the Corporation of Glasgow. The sub-committee, after consideration, agreed that it be remitted to Depute River Baillie Doherty and Councillor Drummond, along with the Superintendant, to inspect the pictures, and with power to accept the same on behalf of the Corporation.

2 March 1928: With reference to the minute, of date 23rd December last, Depute River Baillie Doherty and Councillor Drummond, under remit to them, along with the Superintendant, reported that they had inspected the collection of pictures belonging to the Trust Estate of the late Andrew Lusk, St. Moritz, Windsor, and had agreed to recommend acceptance of the following works of art, viz.

  1. Barmouth  – J. W. Oakes, A.R.A.
  2. St. Ives Bay – John Brett, A.R.A. and
  3. The Windmill – Clarkson Stanfield, R.A. 26

Because Andrew Lusk had insisted in his will that his paintings should be hung tastefully and together with the appellation ‘from the bequest of Andrew Lusk, Windsor’, his executor went to great lengths to see that this was carried out. There are three letters relating to the placement of the pictures given to Glasgow in the NAS file.

      In his ‘Testator’s Suggestions to his Executors’ he stated that ‘I wish particularly that my other pictures apart from those mentioned in my will be kept in the family (the Greenock cousins excluded!!) or given to friends who would appreciate them rather than sold to dealers for whom I have a great objection’.

A portrait of Lady Sawyer by Sir Hubert Herkomer RA was left to his nephew and executor David Colville Lusk. Heidelberg on the Rhine by J. B. Pyne probably went to his niece Jenny Robertson. Another picture Old Mortality had been entrusted to him by his aunt Dame Eliza Lusk in her will but was in fact the property of his brother.

References.

  1.  National Archives of Scotland, (NAS) GD501 (This is an extensive collection of Lusk family papers and photographs. It contains a book of Andrew`s paintings completed while still at school. The donor`s address was Dunblane, Perthshire). Other family photographs (Figs. 6 and 7) taken from the same source,
  2. Scotland, Lanarkshire Church Records, 1823 – 1967, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:66K6-5M6X : 2 February 2022)
  3. Ibid
  4. ibid
  5. Scotland’s People, 1861 Census
  6. Fox-Davis, Arthur Charles, Armorial Families – A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, two vols., Edinburgh, T.C. and E.C. Jack, 1905.
  7. Scotland`s People, 1871 Census
  8. Scotland’s People, 1881 Census
  9. Woking History Society, Sue Jones, by e-mail
  10. ancestry.co.uk, England Census, 1891
  11. Scotland’s People, Marriages
  12. NAS, GD501
  13. Ancestry.co.uk, England Census, 1901
  14. The Times, 25 June 1909
  15. Ancestry.co.uk, England Census, 1911
  16. Scotland’s People, Death Certificate
  17. Slough, Eton and Windsor Observer, 17 and 24 July 1915, p. 4 and 19 May 1916, p1.
  18. NAS, GD501
  19. ibid
  20. ibid
  21. Perthshire Advertiser, 6 November 1926.
  22. NAS, GD501
  23. The Scotsman, 3 March 1928, p14.
  24. Motherwell Times, 10 October 1928, p5.
  25. Corporation of Glasgow, Minutes, 1928, C1/3/78 pp. 516 and 987.

Appendix 1: From Armorial Families.

Sons of James Lusk of Feam Bank(sic), Lanarksh., (5. 1817 ; d. 1890; m. 1846, Janet, d. of Andrew Reid of Hamilton, Cambuslang : — 
John Lusk, Gentleman [Arms as above, and (matric. 30 May 1903) a bordure silver. Crest — An ancient ship as in the arms, but without the rainbow as above], b. 14 July 1848 ; m. 10 Aug. 1876, Jessie, d. of David Colville ; and has issue — (i) James Lusk, Gentleman, b. 19 Sept. 1878 (2) David Colville Lusk, Gentleman, b. 19 Nov. i88i 
and Janet. Res. — South Dean, Merchiston, Edinburgh ..Coulter House, Lanarkshire. 
Andrew Lusk, Gentleman, b. 3 June 1853. Res. — St. Moritz, Windsor. 

Appendix 2

 Donations to the Sandeman Library, Perth (Now Perth Museum).

  1. Trebarwith Strand, Cornwall, Edwin John Ellis, R.I. (1848 – 1916)
  2. Dover Cliffs, Edwin John Ellis, R.I.
  3. Cattle and Trees (original title), now Landscape with Cattle, William Shayer, sen.
  4. Windsor Castle from Snowhill (original title), now Windsor Castle from Windsor Great Park, Charles Edward Johnson, R.I. (Exhibited at RA, 1895)
  5. General Gabriel Gordon, (1763 – 1855), Sir John Watson Gordon, P.R.S.A. (1788 – 1864)
  6. Marble Busts of: Sir Walter Scott, with pedestal

                            Milton

                           Diana, with pedestal

                           Dido, with pedestal

                           Demosthenes.

Further Information about these:

  1. There is a picture in Perth Art Gallery by Edwin John Ellis entitled Fishing Boats on a Beach. Could this be the same picture? It has reference FA76/78 and acquisition method is ‘unknown’.
  2. In Perth Art Gallery, ref. FA99/78. ‘Unknown acquisition method’.
  3. In Perth Art Gallery, ref. FA59/78. ‘Unknown acquisition method’.
  4. In Perth Art Gallery, ref. FA101/78. ‘Bequeathed by Andrew Lusk, 1951’.
  5. In Perth Art Gallery, ref. FA92/78. ‘Bequeathed by Andrew Lusk, 1951’.

A receipt for five pictures, five busts and three pedestals was received by D.C. Lusk on 5 December 1927 from the Sandeman Library, Perth.