Basic Biographical Details Name: | Thomas Callender Campbell Mackie | Designation: | | Born: | 17 June 1886 | Died: | 17 August 1952 | Bio Notes: | Thomas Callender Campbell Mackie was born at Helensburgh on 17 June 1886 and educated at Larchfield School, Helensburgh. He was articled to Alexander Nisbet Paterson c.1902-7 and was at some point an assistant with William Leiper, studying at the Glasgow School of Architecture under Eugène Bourdon from c.1904 and contributing an article to 'Vista' in 1908. At the School he was regarded as 'most promising of architect students, gifted with outstanding imagination of unusual quality and supreme draughtsmanship'. In the years before the First World War he designed ship interiors for Alexander Stephen of Linthouse, and made a visit to Venice.
Mackie was unfit for military service and spent the First World War with the Red Cross. At the end of it he designed memorials for Martyns of Cheltenham, but in 1920 he was appointed Head of the School of Design at Glasgow School of Art, his home address being Broomhouse, Helensburgh. Throughout the inter-war years he travelled extensively in France, practising chiefly as a painter in oil and pastel and as a lithographer and etcher rather than an architect. In the early 1930s he moved house from Helensburgh to Moorcroft, Milngavie where he died on August 17 1952, two years after his retirement from Glasgow School of Art. His friend Alfred G Lochhead organised a memorial exhibition of his work. Lochhead wrote of him 'he was a man apart, in having an inward something, call it an intensely Celtic flame or what you will, which gave him an awareness of beauty which was exceptionally keen… [he had] a flair for garden lay-out and gardening; verse speaking; writing including the creation of fanciful plays'. A number of his paintings of Scottish scenery are held in public collections. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | Greenknowe, Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland | Business | 1919 * | | | | Broomhouse, Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, Scotland | Private | 1920 * | | | | Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1920 | 1950 | | | 318, Bath Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1929 * | | Studio | | 23, Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | Before 1930 | After 1934 | | | Moorcroft, Milngavie, Dunbartonshire, Scotland | Private | Before 1939 | 17 August 1952 | |
* 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 | | McEwan, P J M | 1994 | Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture | | | | | RIBA | 1930 | The RIBA Kalendar 1930-1931 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | | | RIBA | 1939 | The RIBA Kalendar 1939-1940 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this : | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | RIAS Quarterly | November 1952 | no 90 | Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) | |
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