Gordon, Alexander Esmé, RSA
1910 – 1993
Educated at Edinburgh Academy and then studied architecture at Edinburgh College of Art proceeding to win the RIBA Owen Jones Scholarship. In 1937 he set up his own practice in Edinburgh "Gordon & Dey" and then during the Second World War he served with the Royal Engineers. After the war he resumed his practice in Edinburgh and was involved in a mainly Edinburgh based commissions for example the War Memorial Chapel in the High Kirk of St Giles. He was also a member of the teaching staff in the architecture department at Edinburgh College of Art. He was the Secretary of the RSA from 1973 until 1978 and wrote a comprehensive study of the history of the RSA published in 1976. He exhibited at the RSA from 1931 until 1993, he became an Associate Member of the RSA in 1956 and an Academcian in 1967.
