Painter of still life and landscape, born in Dunfermline, Fife. As a youth he spent some years in Canada, settling in Glasgow in 1927. He later served as a police officer there, retiring in 1958, the year after he ceased showing at Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, where he first showed in 1938, then regularly. His formal studies were mainly at evening classes at the Glasgow School of Art, with some day classes. Also exhibited at RSA. Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery holds his Lochermill, Near Bridge of Weir, painted in 1957.