Basic Biographical Details Name: | William Gordon Galloway | Designation: | | Born: | 7 May 1880 | Died: | 26 August 1963 | Bio Notes: | William Gordon Galloway was born on 7 May 1880, the son of James Jack Galloway, civil engineer and his wife Mary Gilmour. He studied at Glasgow School of Art from September 1897, later taking a year's classes at Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, and was articled to Macwhannell & Rogerson in September 1900. After completing his apprenticeship, and studying at the Glasgow School of Art for the unusually long period of seven years, latterly under Eugène Bourdon, he set up practice in 1906 at 121 Bath Street, Glasgow, in partnership with James Balderston Whyte (born 1882), who had likewise been articled to Macwhannell & Rogerson and had studied at Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow and West Of Scotland Technical College but had commenced his training two years earlier than Galloway. By this time Galloway had visited the principal towns in France and Italy.
Whyte and Galloway were both admitted LRIBA in March 1911, their proposers being Macwhannell, Rogerson and Andrew Graham Henderson, also from Macwhannell and Rogerson's office, who had passed the qualifying exam in 1909. Whyte & Galloway were architects to the episcopal diocese of Glasgow from about 1922 and were responsible for its suburban extension programme in the 1920s and 1930s. The earlier churches were in a modernist red sandstone lancet style, the later ones brick romanesque. Their commercial buildings were quite bold Art Deco, those for Claud Alexander - their main client - having faience facades.
Around 1937 an assistant, William Nicol, became a partner, the practice title changing to Whyte Galloway & Nicol, and shortly thereafter to Whyte & Nicol after Galloway withdrew.
Galloway was married to Elizabeth Gray. He died of cerebral thrombosis on 26 August 1963 in the Infirmary Annexe, Paisley. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | 7, Beech Avenue, Dumbreck, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | 1900 * | | | | 121, Bath Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1906 | After 1932 | | | 10, Mansionhouse Road, Langside, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | 1911 * | | | | 10, Beaumont Gate, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | 1935 or 1936 * | | | | 199, Bath Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1939 * | | | | 31, North Frederick Street, Glasgow, Scotland | | 1948 | | | | Quarter, Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland | Private | 1963 * | | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this : | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | British Architectural Library, RIBA | 2001 | Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 | | | | | Post Office Directories | | | | | | | RIBA | 1939 | The RIBA Kalendar 1939-1940 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | | | Who's Who in Architecture | 1914 | | | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this : | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | Professor David M Walker personal archive | Professor David M Walker, notes and collection of archive material | | Additional research by Iain Paterson | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | L v12 no781 (microfilm reel 33) |
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