| A | The Architect |
| AA | Academy Architecture |
| ABJ | Architect and Builders Journal |
| AGN | Administrative General Notes |
| AJ | Architects Journal |
| ARA | Associate of the Royal Academy of Art, London |
| ARBS | Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors |
| ARCA | Associate of the Royal College of Art |
| ARIBA | Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects |
| ARSA | Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh |
| B | The Builder |
| BA | British Architect |
| BBC | British Broadcasting Corporation |
| BI | Building Industries and Scottish Architect |
| BISA | Building Industries and Scottish Architect |
| BJ | The Builders Journal |
| BN | The Building News |
| CBE | Commander (of the Order) of the British Empire |
| DM | Daily Mail |
| DNB | Dictionary of National Biography |
| DR | Daily Record |
| DSO | Distinguished Service Order |
| ECA | Edinburgh College of Art |
| ET | Evening Times |
| FIAS | Fellow of the Institute of Architects in Scotland |
| FRBS | Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors |
| FRIBA | Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects |
| GA | Greenock Advertizer |
| GAPC | Glasgow Advertiser and Property Circular |
| GC | Glasgow Citizen |
| GCA | Glasgow City Archives |
| GCC | Glasgow City Council |
| GCCJ | Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Journal |
| GCM | Glasgow Corporation Minutes |
| GG | Glasgow Gazette |
| GH | Glasgow Herald |
| GIA | Glasgow Institute of Architects |
| GMAG | Glasgow Museum and Art Gallery, Kelvingrove |
| GOMA | Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow |
| GP | The Govan Press |
| GSA | Glasgow School of Art |
| GSS | Glasgow Sculpture Studios |
| GUABRC | Glasgow University Archives & Business Records Centre |
| GWH | Glasgow Weekly Herald |
| H | The Herald |
| HAG | Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow |
| HK | Honeyman & Keppie Job Books |
| HLI | Highland Light Infantry |
| HM | Hunterian Museum |
| HRI | Honorary Member of the Royal Institute |
| HRSA | Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language |
| ILN | Illustrated London News |
| M | Metro |
| MCC | Maryborough City Council, Queensland, Australia |
| ML | Mitchell Library |
| MM | McLean Museum, Greenock |
| MS | Manuscript |
| MSP | Member of the Scottish Parliament |
| NATS | National Art Training School |
| NLS | National Library of Scotland |
| NMRS | National Monuments Record of Scotland |
| NTS | National Trust for Scotland |
| PAI | Paisley Art Institute |
| PHP | PHP Hypertext Preprocessor:
The server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language used to write this website. |
| PHT | Penang Heritage Trust |
| PMSA | Public Monuments And Sculpture Association |
| POD | Post Office Directory |
| PODs | Post Office Directories |
| PRBS | President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors |
| PRIBA | President of the Royal Institute of British Architects |
| RA | Royal Academy of Art, London / Royal Academician |
| RBS | Royal Society of British Sculptors |
| RC | Roman Catholic |
| RCA | Royal College of Art |
| RCAHMS | Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments in Scotland |
| RGIFA | Royal Glasgow Intitute of the Fine Arts |
| RIAS | Royal Institute of Architects in Scotland |
| RIBA | Royal Institute of British Architects |
| RSA | Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh |
| SLTAS | South Lambeth Technical Art School |
| SM | The Scots Magazine |
| SNPG | Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh |
| SP | The Sunday Post |
| SSO6 | Scottish Sculpture Open Six Exhibition (1991) |
| TD | Techical Drawing |
| UF | United Free |
| UP | United Presbyterian |
| VA | Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
| VC | Victoria Cross |
| VM | Virtual Mitchell Website: http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/vm/index.htm |
| WL | Watt Library, Greenock |
