Thomas Laurie

OBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

FRICS The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is a global professional body for surveyors, founded in London in 1868. It works at a cross-governmental level, and aims to promote and enforce the highest international standards in the val ...

(11 November 1938 – 23 December 2020) is a former Chairman of the

Traverse Theatre The Traverse Theatre is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded in 1963 by John Calder, John Malcolm, Jim Haynes and Richard Demarco. The Traverse Theatre company commissions and develops new plays or adaptations from contemporary pla ...

; Chairman of WASPS Trust (Workshop and Artists' Studio Provision Scotland) and Trustee,

Scottish Civic Trust Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

. Laurie trained as a

chartered surveyor Chartered Surveyor is the description (protected by law in many countries) of Professional ''Members'' and ''Fellows'' of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) entitled to use the designation (and a number of variations such as "Charte ...

and became a partner in the firm of Robert H. Soper & Co. of

Cumbernauld Cumbernauld (; gd, Comar nan Allt, meeting of the streams) is a large town in the historic county of Dunbartonshire and council area of North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is the tenth most-populous locality in Scotland and the most populated t ...

before setting up his own firm, Thomas Laurie Associates of Cumbernauld and Glasgow, in 1977.

Appointments, the theatre and the arts

After meeting Robert Soper in 1962, theatre became a significant part of Laurie's life, which contributed to Glasgow's cultural growrth. In 1961 Thomas Laurie became a founder member of the Cumbernauld Theatre Group and from 1964–72 served as a board member, the Cottage Theatre, Cumbernauld. A board member and former Chairman of the

(1972–76), Laurie is also a past Chairman and Trustee of WASPS Trust (Workshop and Artists' Studio Provision Scotland) and a former member of the Drama Panel,

Scottish Arts Council The Scottish Arts Council ( gd, Comhairle Ealain na h-Alba, sco, Scots Airts Cooncil) was a Scottish public body responsible for the funding, development and promotion of the arts in Scotland. The Council primarily distributed funding from the ...

(1973–82) and of the Scottish Arts Council (1976–82.) He is also a former Trustee of the

and a Fellow of the

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is a global professional body for surveyors, founded in London in 1868. It works at a cross-governmental level, and aims to promote and enforce the highest international standards in the val ...

.WASPS Trust – Board of Trustees
Retrieved 12 November 2010

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Laurie, Thomas 1938 births People educated at Hamilton Academy Scottish surveyors Living people Officers of the Order of the British Empire