Architects

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Andrew Graham Henderson

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Architect

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03/04/1926

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1882

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21/11/1963

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Bio Notes :

Andrew Graham (known as Graham) Henderson was born in 1882 in Auckland, New Zealand, the son of William Nisbet Henderson, draper and commission agent, and his wife Elizabeth Black Graham. He served his apprenticeship with Macwhannell & Rogerson from July 1898 to September 1903 , attending classes at Glasgow School of Art and the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College from 1899-1901. Thereafter he was an assistant to William Baillie of Glasgow for eight months, moving to the practice of Honeyman Keppie & Mackintosh in April 1904. Between 1906 and 1910 he was an assistant to Professor Eugène Bourdon at Glasgow School of Art and made he made three study tours to the Continent spending periods in Normandy, Italy and Belgium. In 1910 he moved to become Principal teacher of Architecture and Building Construction at Paisley College of Technology, a post which he held until 1921. In June and July 1909 he had spent an intensive period of study in London and had passed the qualifying exam and was elected ARIBA in 1910, winning the Arthur Cates Prize in the following year, his obituarist noting that for this he had submitted 'a superb set of drawings and throughout his long career he was admired for his skill as a designer, accomplished draughtsman and colourist'. In his early days as assistant to Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh he worked on the Oval Room in the Ingram Street tearooms, being responsible for the interior, including the designs for the carpets and furnishings. By 1914 he had achieved an important position within the practice, having secured the commission for the Demonstration School at Jordanhill in the 1913 competition and won the competition for the Glasgow Cross reconstruction outright. After Mackintosh failed to complete the firm's submission for Jordanhill adequately he is said to have told Keppie that he would not accept a partnership if Mackintosh remained with the firm, prompting a financial review of the practice which resulted in Keppie & Mackintosh's partnership being dissolved at Keppie's request.

During the First World War Henderson served with the Glasgow Highlanders and was severely wounded. He was hospitalised at Rouen and at Bangour. He lost the use of his right arm and hand, but refused to accept this as a handicap and re-learnt to write and draw with his left hand. While on active service in 1914-15 Keppie paid him a retainer of £216 per annum. He was 'nominally' in partnership with Keppie (with whom he had become a close friend) from January 1916 but in practice he only joined the firm as partner after the end of hostilities. During the 1920s he edited the journal of the RIAS.

Henderson was elected FRIBA in 1931, his proposers being Keppie, John Watson and George Arthur Boswell. During the 1930s his skill as a designer received wider recognition: in a review of bank buildings in Britain, Professor Reilly of Liverpool chose the Bank of Scotland in Sauchiehall Street as the best example of its kind in the country. In 1938 he was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal for the design of Cloberhill School in Glasgow.

Keppie retired in 1937 or 1938 when his health began to fail. At the beginning of the Second World War Henderson organised the War Valuation Department in Glasgow Area. In 1941 he was appointed Quartering Commandant for West Scotland District with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In 1945-47 he was elected President of the RIAS and in 1950 he was elected President of the RIBA. He was the first Scot to be elected to this office whilst practising only in Scotland. This involved him in a great deal of travel within the UK but also abroad to Canada and the US towards the end of his second term of office, the highlight being a tour across Canada for the Annual Assembly of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada at Vancouver, followed by a trip through the United States from San Francisco to Washington and New York. He did not, however, receive the knighthood usual at that time: the reasons are not known but may have related to differences with Oliver Hill who had tried to replace him as architect to the Queen Mother at Birkhall during his presidency.

Despite losing the use of his right arm, Henderson still enjoyed golf in his spare time and for a number of years spent an Easter break in Tenby in Pembrokeshire on golfing holidays with his friends Percy Thomas, Thomas E Scott and C D Spragg. He died on 21 November 1963, survived by his wife, whom he married on 3 June 1919 at Pollokshields Parish Church, and his daughter.

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The following private or business addresses are associated with this person:

Private Addresses2 classic

Address	Class	Date From Char	Date From Type	Date To Char	Date To Type	Notes
Briarbank Shawlands Glasgow Scotland	Private
49 Trefoil Gardens Shawlands Glasgow Scotland	Private
60 Kirkcaldy Road Pollokshields Glasgow Scotland	Private
220 Albert Road Pollokshields Glasgow Scotland	Private
14 Dalziel Drive Pollokshields Glasgow Scotland	Private
96 Springkell Avenue Glasgow Scotland	Private

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Address	Class	Date From	Notes
4 Blythswood Square Glasgow Scotland	Business	1910	Business address of Honeyman Keppie & Macintosh
257 West George Street Glasgow Scotland	Business	1931
181 West Regent Street Glasgow Scotland	Business	1939
196 West Regent Street Glasgow Scotland	Business	1950

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The following individuals or organisations employed or trained this person (click on an item to view details):

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position
Macwhannell & Rogerson	201490	1898/07	1903/09	Apprentice
William Baillie	100103	1903/09	1904/04	Assistant
Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh	200559	1904/04	In year 1910	Draughtsman
Honeyman & Keppie	206243	1914/06	1916/01	Chief Draughtsman
Keppie & Henderson	201517	1916/01		Partner
Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh	200559	After 1910	1914/06	Chief Draughtsman
Keppie Henderson & J L Gleave	400567	In year 1948	In year 1958	Partner

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The following individuals were employed or trained by this person (click on an item to view details):

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position	Notes
Catherine Mary Helen Henderson (Mrs Lambert)	400005	In year 1935	In year 1937	Assistant

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The following individuals proposed this person for RIBA membership (click on an item to view details):

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Proposer	Proposer Link	Date Proposed	Notes
Charles Rennie Mackintosh	200362	1910/01/03	for Associateship
Ninian Macwhannell	201491	1910/01/03	for Associateship
John Keppie	200838	1910/01/03	for Associateship
John Watson	203278	Late 1930s	for Fellowship
George Arthur Boswell	200152	Late 1930s	for Fellowship
John Keppie	200838	Late 1930s	for Fellowship

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This person proposed the following individuals for RIBA membership (click on an item to view details):

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Person	Date Proposed	Notes
Donald McKay Stoddart	1910/07/04	for Licentiateship
Alexander Thomson Heathcote	1911/03/20	for Licentiateship
William Gordon Galloway	1911/03/20	for Licentiateship
James Balderston Whyte	1911/03/20	for Licentiateship
Henry ('Harry') Cook	In year 1931	for Fellowship
Andrew Hamilton	In year 1931	for Fellowship
Alexander Hood MacLeod	1932/02/24	for Licentiateship
James Andrew Carrick	1933/12/04	for Associateship
Alastair Frew Wallace (or Alexander Frew Wallace)	Mid 1933s	for Associateship
Robert Rennie	1934/03/05	For Associateship
William Riddell Glen	1934/06/18	for Licentiateship
John Campbell	1935/01/14	for Associateship
Adam Elliot Watson	1935/01/14	for Associateship
Ronald McPherson Watson Young	1936/03/09	for Associateship
James Henry Gray	1937/07/19	for Fellowship

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This person was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details):

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Building Name	Date Started	Town, District or Village	City or County	Country	Notes
Pettigrew & Stephens Department Store	In year 1913		Glasgow	Scotland	Further work, including new shopfronts as chief draughtsman to Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh
Langside District Library	In year 1913	Langside	Glasgow	Scotland	Premiated design
Jordanhill Training College, Demonstration School	In year 1914	Jordanhill	Glasgow	Scotland	As Head Draughtsman to Honeyman Keppie & Mackintosh -won competition and secured job
Glasgow Cross	1914/07		Glasgow	Scotland	Won competition for reorganising street layout - as chief draughtsman with Honeyman & Keppie
Blanefield	In year 1918		Glasgow?	Scotland	Work for John Hay
Glasgow Herald Building	In year 1918		Glasgow	Scotland	Alterations
Redholm	In year 1918	Helensburgh	Dunbartonshire	Scotland	Toolshed
Deanholm	In year 1918			Scotland	Alterations
Store in Bishop Street	In year 1919		Glasgow	Scotland	Alterations?
37 Bishop Street	In year 1919		Glasgow	Scotland
Memorial to William Doleman	In year 1919		Glasgow	Scotland
Scottish Temperance League building	In year 1919		Glasgow	Scotland	Alterations and conversion of Scottish Temperence League to Daily Record Building
Marybank	In year 1919	Dowanhill	Glasgow	Scotland
Premises for Millers Ltd	In year 1919			Scotland
City of Glasgow Friendly Society	In year 1920		Glasgow	Scotland	Reconstruction and domed addition on Douglas Street

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Notes
Williamson, Riches, Higgs	Glasgow (The Buildings of Scotland)	1990		p345
RIBA	The RIBA Kalendar 1950-1951	1950	London: Royal Institute of British Architects
Stark, David	Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Co., 1854 to 2004	2004	Glasgow: Stenlake Publishing Ltd
RIBA	The RIBA Kalendar 1930-1931	1930	London: Royal Institute of British Architects
RIBA	The RIBA Kalendar 1939-1940	1939	London: Royal Institute of British Architects

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The following periodicals contain references to this person:

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Periodical Name	Date Circ	Edition	Notes
Scotsman	1953/02/12	*	Copy of article with photo in NMRS library
Builder	1950/4/28		p543 [nomination mentioned under photos of the Clobberhill School]
RIBA Journal	1964/01		Obituary by C D Spragg

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The following archives hold material relating to this person:

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Archive Name	Source	Source Cat No	Building Id	Item Name	Notes
RIBA Nomination Papers	RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum	100005			A v19 no 2036 (microfilm reel 20); F no 2852 (box 12)

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