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Talwin Morris

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14/06/1865

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29/03/1911

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Talwin Morris was born in Winchester on 14 June 1865, the son of Thomas Morris, auctioneer, and his wife Harriet who died at his birth. As his father died a few years later he was brought up by his father's spinster sister, Emily Morris. He was educated at Lancing College and articled to an uncle Joseph Morris of Reading (Thomas Morris is also described as an architect on his son's death certificate). He completed his articles and obtained an assistant's post in London with James Martin Brooks, son of the church architect James Brooks. There his main interest became graphic design. In 1891 a downturn in business resulted in him leaving to take up the post of sub-art editor for the journal 'Black and White' under M H Spielman. He moved to Glasgow as art director for Blackie & Co's publishing house in May 1893.

Morris's main business was bookbindings and graphics but he made avant-garde Glasgow-style designs for furniture, stained glass, metalwork jewellery and just occasionally interior work, mainly at his own houses at Bowling, that at Dunglass Castle being illustrated in 'The Studio' in 1897. His work was exhibited at Budapest and Turin in 1902.

Morris married Alice Marsh in 1892. He died suddenly of a cardiac embolism at Torwood, Bowling on 29 March 1911. His death was reported by his near neighbour and closest friend Charles Macdonald, the lawyer brother-in-law of Charles Rennie Mackintosh; Macdonald had bought Dunglass Castle from him in July 1899. His gravestone at Dumbarton cemetery was designed by Mackintosh.

After Morris's death Alice Morris returned to England. In the 1940s she was living at Greenhays, Braunton, North Devon.

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

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Address	Class	Date From Char	Date From Type	Date To Char	Date To Type	Notes
England	Private
Torwood Bowling Dunbartonshire Scotland	Private

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Address	Class	Date From	Date To
Field Court Gray's Inn London England	Business	1892	1893
Glasgow Scotland	Business	1893
Dunglass Castle Bowling Dunbartonshire Scotland	Business	1893	1899

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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	Island	City or County	Country	Notes
Dunglass Castle	After 1893	Bowling (near)		Dunbartonshire	Scotland	Porch connecting entrance doorway to east wing and mural within
Glagsow Necropolis, Blackie Monument				Glasgow	Scotland

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Part	Notes
Howarth, Thomas	Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Modern Movement	1977	London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd	Second Edition
Crawford, Alan	Charles Rennie Mackintosh	1995	London: Thames and Hudson
Robertson, Pamela and Johnston, J Stewart	Charles Rennie Mackintosh	1996	Glasgow: Glasgow Museums	exhibition catalogue
Stark, David	Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Co., 1854 to 2004	2004	Glasgow: Stenlake Publishing Ltd
Neat, Timothy and McDermott, Gillian	Closing the Circle: Thomas Howarth and the Modern Movement	2002	Aberdour: Inyx Publishing		Letters of Alice Talwin Morris to Thomas Howarth, October 1944 and May 1948, pp145-151

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Archive Name	Source	Source Cat No	Building Id	Item Name	Notes
Professor David M Walker, notes and collection of archive material	Professor David M Walker personal archive	100041			Information on death from Iain Paterson

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