Murgatroyd, Eugenie Winifred

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Murgatroyd, Eugenie Winifred

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  • Gentleman

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1899-1966

History

Born in Glasgow at 20 Doune Terrace, Kelvinside North, her father was a Factor and property valuer. Murgatroyd attended Glasgow High School for Girls where she won the Newbury Medal (Dux in Art) in 1919. Later that year she enrolled at the GSA where she studied Drawing and Painting until 1923.

In 1928, she married a fellow GSA student, Thomas Gentleman and had two sons – David, born 1930 and Hugo, born 1935. A talented needlewoman, in later years, she developed a keen interest, and skill, in weaving, producing a variety of textiles including tweeds, cottons and fine wool stoles. She sold these through a local shop, via commission and also regularly helped at a summer residential course on weaving held for the teachers of blind people in Cambridge.

Several members of the Gentleman family went on to pursue successful artistic careers.

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Gentleman, Tom

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S249

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Gentleman, Tom

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Murgatroyd, Eugenie Winifred

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P904

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