President (Architect) 1946

Architect and lecturer, Hughes was born in Edinburgh on the 7^th July 1888. She left school in December 1906 aged 18, before studying in Paris where she attended lectures at the Sorbonne which focused on art and architecture. By September 1911, she had moved to Florence to study Italian and Art, extending her studies to Perugia, Siena and Assisi in 1912. Around 1912 she enrolled at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen to study garden design but transferred to architecture, gaining her diploma in 1914. She lectured at both Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen and Glasgow School of Art. She became a partner in the Glasgow based architectural firm John Burnet & Son’s.

Known Addresses:

131 West Regent Street, Glasgow (c.1923-?)

27 Ashton Road, Glasgow (c.1926-?)

121 Douglas Street, Glasgow (1929-?)