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Genealogy of David West and Jessie G S Christie.
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David West, was a local celebrity in Lossiemouth as
artist, golfer, and someone involved in the politics of the area. He married
the daughter of a Provost of Lossiemouth, who was the owner of the Stotfield
Hotel there. Of his three sons, David died in infancy; Ronald who was killed
in a plane crash, was awarded the DFC after having been involved in the
protection of Malta. Hamish, also in the RAF (Wing Commander) died just a
few years ago and his elderly widow lives near Tewkesbury, as do his son,
also Hamish, with his wife, and two sons.
Obituary Press and Journal 9 October 1936
Lossie Artist's Death.
Mr David West's Seizure at Art Exhibition
Famous Seascape Painter Mr David West, Chilkoot, Lossiemouth, the well-known
north of Scotland artist and seascape painter died suddenly yesterday
morning in Glasgow.
Mr West had a seizure while visiting the Royal Art Exhibition there, where
he had several of his works on view. He was sixty-eight years of age.
Life of Adventure.
A son of the late Captain James West, Lossiemouth, who was in command of a
sailing schooner which plied between the Moray Firth and the Baltic, Mr West
had a varied life full of adventure.
He was educated at Lossiemouth and Aberdeen Grammar School, and on leaving
school he went to sea in his father's ships. As a young man he saw a large
part of the world.
In 1898 he took part in the memorable Klondyke gold rush.
Always fond of his native Morayshire, he returned to Lossiemouth and set up
a studio. His exceptional ability in oil painting was not long in being
recognised, and when still in his twenties he had won for himself wide
repute as a landscape painter. As a painter of the sea, the sandy wastes and
the sky along the Moray Firth coast, and of old sailing boats he was
unsurpassed.
Seascape Scenes.
Some of Mr West's pictures of typical Moray land and seascape scenes have
been on view at the Aberdeen Artists' Society exhibitions and in many parts
of the country.
Recently the Duchess of Northumberland, while on holiday in Lossiemouth,
visited his studio and purchased two typical Moray landscape works.
130/7/30 Drainie - 1891 census.
Farmhouse, Wester of Covesea
Jane Duff, Servant, unmarried, 41, Housekeeper, b. Glenlivet, Banffshire
Annibella Macpherson, visitor, 6, scholar, b. Glenlivet, Banffshire
David West, visitor, unmarried, 22, Landscape Artist, b. Drainie,
Morayshire.
[9 rooms with one or more windows]
1901 census. (130 Sch.68 p.14) - The Studio, Stotfield, Drainie
David West, Head, Single, 30, Artist, b. Drainie
WHO WAS WHO 1929-1940.
West, David RSW 1908
Landscape and seascape painter in watercolours born Lossiemouth, son of
Captain James West. Frequent exhibitor at principal exhibitions, Royal
Academy, Royal Scottish Academy, etc. Private exhibition of own watercolours
at Buenos Aires 1927, first exclusive exhibition of watercolours in the
Argentine, has travelled on the continent etc. and wintered in Alaska.
Joined the ASC(MT) and drove a Field Ambulance car in France, Highland
Division, 1915. Recreations - golf, sailing, angling.
Address: Chilkoot, Lossiemouth, Morayshire. Club: Scottish Arts, Edinburgh.
Died 8/10/1936.
Royal Academy Exhibitors 1769-1904 Volume VII.
David West
40 Osborne Place, Aberdeen
1890 No. 1247 On the banks of the Lossie, Morayshire
42 Hartington Road, Aberdeen
1891 No. 1207 The Muckle Water, Morayshire
No. 1319 A Marsh, Morayshire
Duthie Terrace, Aberdeen
1892 No. 1092 Tail of the Bents, Morayshire
No. 1293 Evening Quietude
1893 No. 550 Near the Sea Morayshire
No. 1094 Morayshire coast
1894 No. 917 Under the Cliff
Lossiemouth
1902 No. 1019 Fisherwomen bringing home firewood.See also:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_West,_RSW |
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Children.
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Born |
Died |
Biography. |
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David |
1912 |
1912 |
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Hamish |
1914 |
17 Feb 1993 |
d. Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. WEST - On Feb.
17 1993 at Westmancote, nr Tewkesbury, Glos, Wg Cdr Hamish West, RAF (ret'd),
"One of the Few". Further inquiries to B. Sweet &Sons, Tewkesbury, Glos. |
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Ronald |
1919 |
24 May 1943 |
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