Henry Young Alison (21 September 1889 - 9 March 1972) was an artist; and former Director of the Glasgow School of Art.
His painting Winter at Muckbrig was given to the Glasgow School of Art but it was lost in the Mackintosh building fire in 2014.
Alison took over as interim Director of Glasgow School of Art when Allan Walton left the role in 1945.
Alison took intimidation to extremes as it is recorded that students remembered him as a 'holy terror' or worse, 'a wee bastard'.
[3] It appears that Alison was driven into resignation by the unrelenting attentions of one Elizabeth Brown, the former Acting Secretary, who held the fort in the school office during the War, but who had become a major irritant through her habit of buttonholing people in corridors and subjecting them to endless conversations about trivia.