[3] Tatlock attended both The Glasgow Academy and the Royal College of Science and Technology, the latter of which is now the University of Strathclyde.
Between 1910 and 1913 he studied painting and drawing at the Glasgow School of Art, though evening classes.
[4] Tatlock served in a Quaker organisation, the Friends War Victims Relief Committee, which had been formed in 1870.
[6] During the Second World War, both Roger Fry and Campbell Dodgson made a significant effort ensure that the Burlington survived.
[8] Robert R Tatlock is listed on the Glasgow School of Art's First World War Roll of Honour.