George Fisher Gilmour
George Fisher Gilmour (1904-1984) was a British artist, playwright, and filmmaker. As a genre painter, he worked primarily in oil and watercolor. Biography George Fisher Gilmour was born on April 12, 1904, in Kingston upon Thames to George Stratern Neilson Gilmour, a merchant mariner, and Catherine Darlington Fisher. His father's family migrated from Scotland to Liverpool where they became crewmen on merchant ships. His mother came from a family of lawyers and bankers. Gilmour's parents were married at St. Oswald Church in Chester, Cheshire on August 3, 1903. Gilmour was baptized at St. Luke's Church, Kingston. He spent his first years in Kingston upon Thames. The family moved to Gravesend in 1911. There the Gilmour family acquired two boarders, Jane Gleeson and her son, Denis. George, Catherine, Jane, and Denis moved back to Kingston shortly after World War I began. Gilmour's father, having sailed between the UK and the US, had become enamored with life in New York and applied for US citizenship. Although his parents never divorced, his father disappeared from their daily lives, residing without them in New York until he died in 1940. Jane and Denis remained part of the family. Gilmour's mother died in November 1947.