Alexander Nisbet Paterson ARSA 1862-10/07/1947

The death of A. N. Paterson took place at Helensburgh on 10^th July; he was born in Glasgow in 1862.

Educated at Glasgow High School and University, his professional study of Architecture was at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Pari, and thereafter in the offices of Sir John Burnet, R.A., R. W. Ellis, and Sir John Aston Webb, R.A. After obtaining experience and travelling for study in France, Holland, Italy and (as Godwin Bursar, R.I.B.A.) in the United States, he commenced practice in Glasgow in 1891.

The principal buildings he designed there, were; University Press offices; National Bank of Scotland, St. Enoch Square; Clubhouse for Liberal Club; Carnegie Aquarium in the Zoological Park, Edinburgh; with domestic work and decoration throughout west Scotland and in Edinburgh. He was elected Associate member of the Academy in 1912, and was a member of H.M. Ancient Monuments Board for Scotland.

In addition to his art of architecture, Mr. Paterson painted in water-colours and exhibited regularly in the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute, and was an active member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours. He had also been accepted in the Salon, the Royal Academy, and the New English Art Club.

A. N. Paterson, who was a brother of our late Secretary, James Paterson, leaves a widow, a son and a daughter.

RSA Obituary, transcribed from the 1947 RSA Annual Report