Andrew married Fanny Ethyl Rogers and they lived in Priory House at Nottingham with
their two children, Sheila and Maureen.
It is said that they tried to keep in the house only those things that were useful
or beautiful. Andrew’s first studio and workshop for making stained glass windows
was at Maypole Yard off Nottingham Market Place.
Andrew Stoddart was born at Abbey, Renfrew, Scotland, in 1876, He was apprenticed
to the Edinburgh stained glass manufacturers Ballantynes where his remarkable skills
were gradually developed. He was influenced by the work of Byrne Jones who was employed
here. Later, he worked in the studio of the Glasgow stained glass designer/maker
Oscar Paterson (1863-1934). Stoddart subsequently moved to Nottingham in England
where he opened a studio/workshop. His addresses in Nottingham are known to have
been The Studio, Long Row (between 1906-13), 7 Castle Road Castle Road (1917) and
54 Park Road, Lenton, Nottingham. Stoddart exhibited 50 works at Nottingham Art Gallery
and Museum (between 1901-30) and nine works at the Royal Academy in London (between
1906-27). The works he exhibited at the RA were ' The Adoration', a design for stained
glass (1906), 'Naval Battle between England and Holland, 1652', a design for stained
glass (1907), ' St. Ursula', a design for stained glass (1910), a design for stained
glass historical window (1912), ' 'St Paul taking leave of his followers', a design
for stained glass (1913), ' Simeon and Zacharias', a design for stained glass (1917),
'Anna', a design for stained glass (1917), and 'Gloria in Excelsis Deo', a design
for a stained glass window in Brentwood, Ontario (1927). He also exhibited at the
Louvre in Paris. Stoddart designed windows for St Columbus Church in Nottingham (now
in St Andrews Church in Nottingham), Collingtree Church in Northampton, and the Reference
Library in Long Eaton, Derbyshire. A stained glass nursery window, designed and executed
by Stoddart is featured in 'The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art' 1906 (p.142).
Andrew died in 1941.
