In June 2008, he was appointed as Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine's College, Oxford, succeeding Patrick Stewart in the post.

Michael Mackintosh Foot, FRSL, PC ( 23 July 1913 – 3 March 2010 ) was a British Labour Party politician and man of letters.

Michael Foot was born in Lipson Terrace, Plymouth, Devon, the fifth of seven children of Isaac Foot ( 1880 – 1960 ) and Eva ( née Mackintosh, died 17 May 1946 ), a Scotswoman ..

* Special Award, Olivier Award, 2011, " in recognition of his contribution to London theatre "; the award was presented at the ceremony by Cameron Mackintosh and Angela Lansbury.

In the western world, rubber remained a curiosity, although it was used to produce waterproofed products such as Mackintosh rainwear.

The specimen was provided by a friend of his Professor Mackintosh.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh ( 7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928 ) was a Scottish architect, designer, watercolourist and artist.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born at 70 Parson Street, Glasgow on 7 June 1868, the fourth of twelve children and second son of William and Margaret McIntosh.

In 1890 Mackintosh was the second winner of the Alexander Thomson Travelling Studentship, set up for the " furtherance of the study of ancient classic architecture, with special reference to the principles illustrated in Mr. Thomson ’ s works.

That year, Charles Rennie Mackintosh was diagnosed with throat and tongue cancer.

Mackintosh was admitted to a nursing home where he died on 10 December 1928 at the age of 60.

This style was admired by Mackintosh because of: its restraint and economy of means rather than ostentatious accumulation ; its simple forms and natural materials rather than elaboration and artifice ; the use of texture and light and shadow rather than pattern and ornament.

Mackintosh ’ s architectural career was a relatively short one, but of significant quality and impact.

It was at these classes that he first met his future wife Margaret MacDonald, her sister Frances MacDonald, and Herbert MacNair who was also a fellow apprentice with Mackintosh at Honeyman and Keppie.

Later in life, disillusioned with architecture, Mackintosh worked largely as a watercolourist, painting numerous landscapes and flower studies ( often in collaboration with Margaret, with whose style Mackintosh's own gradually converged ) in the Suffolk village of Walberswick ( to which the pair moved in 1914 ), where he was briefly arrested as amid accusations of being a German spy in 1915.

His House for an Art Lover was finally built in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park in 1996, and the University of Glasgow ( which owns the majority of his watercolour work ) rebuilt the interiors of a terraced house Mackintosh had designed, and furnished it with his and Margaret's work ( it is part of the University's Hunterian Museum ).

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was to be commemorated on a new series of banknotes issued by the Clydesdale Bank in 2009 ; his image appeared on the new issue of £ 100 notes.

In 2012, one of the largest collections of art by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Four Glasgow School was sold at auction in Edinburgh for £ 1. 3m.

Art Nouveau was also a style of distinct individuals such as Gustav Klimt, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Alphonse Mucha, René Lalique, Antoni Gaudí and Louis Comfort Tiffany, each of whom interpreted it in their own manner.

Josephine Tey was a pseudonym used by Elizabeth Mackintosh ( 25 July 1896 – 13 February 1952 ) a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels.

Mackintosh was born in Inverness, the daughter of Colin Mackintosh and Josephine ( née Horne ).

Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh ( 5 November 1865 – 10 January 1933 ) was a Scottish artist whose design work became one of the defining features of the " Glasgow Style " during the 1890s.

She was first a collaborator with her sister, and later with her husband, the architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

There were also three other siblings: Margaret Elizabeth Foot ( 1911 – 1965 ), Jennifer Mackintosh Highet ( born 1916 ) and Christopher Isaac Foot ( born 1917 ).

During the early stages of the Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh also completed the Queen ’ s Cross Church project in Maryhill, Glasgow.

Mackintosh also worked in interior design, furniture, textiles and metalwork.

He also regularly wore a shiny black Mackintosh raincoat, often carrying it over his arm or draped over his shoulders like a cape.

The building also featured in recent movies such as Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Sharon Stone's Basic Instinct 2 and Woody Allen's Match Point and, rechristened the Spirit of London, became the spaceship centrepiece of Keith Mansfield's 2008 novel Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London.

Another close friend esteemed by Mackintosh was Richard Sharp MP also known as Conversation Sharp and both men belonged to the famous Whig conversation club, the King of Clubs.

Mackintosh has also had considerable success in bringing legitimate theatre directors ( such as the Royal Shakespeare Company's Trevor Nunn and Nicholas Hytner ) and technicians to the world of musical theatre.

Mackintosh also topped The Stage 100 list in 2007 for the first time since 2000.

His younger brother, Robert Mackintosh, is also a producer.

It also houses the Mackintosh gallery which holds many different exhibitions throughout the year.

The Mackintosh Gallery ( also known as the Mackintosh Museum ) is the only part of the Mackintosh building open to the general public ; all other areas are of the school are only viewable by guided tour.

Mackintosh had already been created a baronet, of Halifax in the County of York, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 28 January 1935, and Baron Mackintosh of Halifax, of Hethersett in the County of Norfolk, in 1948, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

However, recent research suggests that Bassett-Lowke and Alexander Ellis Anderson ( a Northampton based architect who supervised the remodelling ) may also have had a hand in the design of this structure as well as Mackintosh.

The Delfont Mackintosh group also consists of the Noël Coward Theatre, Novello Theatre, Prince Edward Theatre, Prince of Wales Theatre, Queen's Theatre, and Wyndham's Theatre.

There are several contributions by contemporaries of Charles Rennie Mackintosh including a series of good ' Glasgow style ' tenements by the architect H. E. Clifford, who was also responsible for the ' A ' listed Pollokshields Burgh Hall, in Scottish Baronial style which was inaugurated in 1890, with Maxwell Park.

The station was founded by Douglas and June Anderson as part of The Petros Radio Group who launched Discovery AM in 1994 and Radio Waves in 1995, then decided to go for the full scale local licence with the help of their neighbour George Mackintosh ( who started Radio Tay in 1980 ) along with a consortium who also founded Kingdom FM in Fife with the assistance of IRG ( The Independent Radio Group )

Henshall has also appeared at the Chichester Festival Theatre, has toured Britain in the revue The Magnificent Musicals, and has performed in Hey, Mr. Producer, a celebration of the works of Cameron Mackintosh.

Bourne has also created choreography for several major revivals of classic musicals including Cameron Mackintosh ’ s productions of Oliver!

His chemical experiments led him to the discovery that a valuable substance is obtainable from coal tar which has the property of dissolving india-rubber, and could be used for waterproofing silk and other textile fabrics ; an idea which was patented a few months afterwards by Charles Macintosh, of Glasgow ( see also Mackintosh ).