Basic Biographical Details Name: | Hugh Ross | Designation: | | Born: | 14 May 1911 | Died: | 3 January 1989 | Bio Notes: | Hugh Ross was born on 14 May 1911, the son of Hugh Ross, steelworker, and his wife Fanny Harriet Adams. The younger Hugh Ross served his apprenticeship with Balfour & Stewart from November 1928 to March 1934, attending evening classes at Glasgow School of Architecture from 1931 to 1933. He studied at Edinburgh College of Art in 1934-6, passed the intermediate exam in 1938, and returned to the GSA to complete his diploma studies in the same year. There he took the final exam on 15 June 1940, and he was admitted ARIBA on 12 November that year, his proposers being Thomas Harold Hughes, Andrew Balfour and Thomas James Beveridge. By that time he was working for the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society Architect's Department, still in Glasgow.
He married Mary Spence Miller, and appears to have lived most or all of his life in Motherwell. He retired before 1971 and resigned from the RIBA in late 1972. He died at Avondale Nursing Home, Motherwell on 3 January 1989. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | 74, Parkhead Street, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland | Private | 1940 * | | | | 29, Crawford Street, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland | Private | After 1972 | 1989 | usual residence at time of death | | 14, Catherine Street, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland | Private | Late 1972 * | | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
Employment and TrainingEmployers* earliest date known from documented sources.
RIBARIBA Proposers
ReferencesArchive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this : | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | A no7731 (combined box 197) |
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