| Administrative History | Peter Norman Dawson was born 30 December 1903. Part of his childhood was spent in Belgium but from 1915-1920 he was educated at Greenock High School in Scotland. In 1920 he was awarded a bursary at Glasgow School of Art, moving in 1922 with a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London where, in 1924, he won the Open Drawing prize. In 1925 he was awarded a travelling scholarship in Fine Art from the Ministry of Education which he used to travel in France and Germany and to study at the British School at Rome. He went on to teach at the Abbey School Barking, Beckenham School of Art and Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. He joined the London Group and began to exhibit paintings. After his marriage in 1935 he moved to Canada and, after a short spell of army service, he studied at Toronto University and moved into the field of industrial design. He was registered with the Canadian and U.S. National Research Councils as an Attorney of Industrial Design. In 1946 he returned to England and was appointed Principal of Winchester School of Art. Peter Dawson died in 1960. |