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John Wishart

Biography

John Wishart's father was John Wishart (born in Montrose, Forfarshire about 1867) who was a 'boot cutter and closer'. His mother was Elizabeth Wishart (born in Edinburgh about 1866). He had an older brother Scott (born about 1897) and a younger brother James (born about 1900).

Wishart's family moved from Montrose to Perth in Scotland when John was two years old. He attended Perth Academy and then, in 1916, entered the University of Edinburgh. There he was taught mathematics by E T Whittaker.

World War I meant that Wishart's university career was disrupted. He spent two years from 1917 to 1919 in the Black Watch regiment and served in France in 1918. He completed his university course in 1922, graduating with a First Class degree in mathematics and physics. He had taken a teacher training course at Moray House as part of his degree and, after graduating, he moved to Leeds accepting a post as mathematics teacher at West Leeds High School.

In 1924, after a recommendation from Whittaker, Wishart was offered a post in University College, London, as a

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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Wishart, George (1513?-1546)

WISHART, GEORGE (1513?–1546), Scottish reformer, was a cadet of the family of Wishart of Pittarrow, near Montrose [cf. Wishart, Robert], but whether he was a younger son of James Wishart of Pittarrow, who was justice clerk between 1513 and 1520, or his nephew, both of which conjectures have been made, is uncertain. The supposed date of his birth is taken from the inscription ‘1543 ætatis suæ 30’ on a portrait which belonged to Archibald Wishart, W.S., Edinburgh, who died in 1850, and is now in the National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. It is believed by good judges to be genuine, though its ascription to Holbein, who died in 1543, is very improbable. Wishart first appears on record as witness to a charter by John Erskine (1509–1591) [q. v.] of Dun on 20 March 1535 (Great Seal Register, No. 1462), in which he is styled ‘Master G. Wishart;’ and, as he is unlikely to have acted as witness under the age of twenty-one, his birth can scarcely have been later than 1514, and so corroborates the date on the

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Michael Wishart

English painter (1928–1996)

John Michael Wishart (June 12, 1928 – June 29, 1996) known as Michael Wishart, was an Englishfigurative painter who spent most of his career in France, America and North Africa. A friend of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, he published a memoir in 1977 entitled High Diver (in French Le Saut de l'ange), which caused a scandal with its description of his bohemian lifestyle.

Biography

Born on June 12, 1928, in the London borough of St Pancras, Wishart was the first son of Ernest Wishart (1902–1987), co-founder of the Marxist publishing house Lawrence and Wishart, and of Lorna Garman (1911–2000), future model and mistress of the painter Lucian Freud. His godmother was the collector Peggy Guggenheim, and his half-sister Yasmin was the daughter of Laurie Lee. Raised in Sussex, he studied at Bedales School, at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London and at the Anglo-French Art School in St. John's Wood, where he was taught by Óscar Domínguez, Antoni Clavé, Jean Lurçat and André Lhote. He then studied with the paint