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Millar, James Robins
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- Millar, James George Robins
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James Robins Millar was born on 28th February 1889 in Canada. He attended The Glasgow School of Art from 1911 to 1916 as an evening student. Millar studied drawing and painting, life, and design. His occupation was listed as a clerk, and then journalist in his last year. Millar's registered addresses were Wood Street, Craigielea Street and then Alexandra Parade, all of which were in the Dennistoun area of Glasgow.
Millar (as Robins Millar) went on to write for the newly-formed Glasgow Evening News and became a playwright with his most successful play, of over 50 written, being 'Thunder in the Air'. His archive is held at the University of Glasgow Archive and Special Collections.
Sources: "‘Between the Grave and the Stars’: Ghost Plays of the Interwar Period, 1925-1936", PhD thesis of Marta Donati, 2022, https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/32499/1/Donati%20Marta%20-%20180211553.pdf [accessed 20/02/2025]; "A true polymath
Barbara Millar on Robins Millar", article for The Scottish
Review, Apr 4, 2018, https://electricscotland.com/history/SR25-Issue7-PDF.pdf [accessed 20/02/2025]
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