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Beattie, Andrew John Sinclair
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1916-1993
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Born and brought up in Govan, his father was a property agent and his mother a school teacher. Beattie studied at the GSA from 1935-1940, possibly inspired by his uncle, Dr Colin Sinclair who was a well-known architect. In his first session he studied Drawing and Painting, later switching to Design.
In 1938 he helped to rebuild Iona Abbey with the inspirational Church of Scotland minister, George Macleod, founder of the Iona community. Beattie was deeply religious and in later life trained as a Methodist Lay Preacher.
Gaining his Diploma in 1940, Beattie became an Art Master at Cally House, in Gatehouse of Fleet. (Glasgow Education Department took over Cally House during the war and many evacuee school children from Glasgow were sent there to be taught in a safer environment.) After the war he moved with his second wife to Uddingston and taught at Uddingston Grammar School. He then became Head of the Art Department at Rutherglen Secondary School before finishing his career as Head of Art at Bellshill secondary School.
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- GSA Registers
- Family information supplied by his grandson