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==Early life and education== [[File:The Willow Tearooms.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|[[The Willow Tearooms]] in [[Sauchiehall Street]], [[Glasgow]]]] Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born at 70 Parson Street, [[Townhead]], [[Glasgow]], on 7 June 1868, the fourth of eleven children and second son of William McIntosh, a superintendent and chief clerk of the [[City of Glasgow Police]]. He attended [[Reid's Public School]] and the [[Allan Glen's Institution]] from 1880 to 1883.<ref name="scotsman2">{{cite news |last=Edwards |first=Gareth |date=8 July 2005 |title=The many colours of Mackintosh β Scotsman.com News |url=http://news.scotsman.com/charlesrenniemackintosh/The-many-colours-of-Mackintosh.2641453.jp |access-date=14 September 2009 |work=The Scotsman |location=Edinburgh, Scotland}}</ref><ref name="disa2">{{cite web|title=Dictionary of Scottish Architects β DSA Architect Biography Report (September 69, 2009, 10:20 pm)|url=http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200362|access-date=14 September 2009|archive-date=25 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225023213/http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=200362|url-status=dead}}</ref> William's wife Margaret Mackintosh nΓ©e 'Rennie' grew up in the Townhead and [[Dennistoun]] (Firpark Terrace) areas of Glasgow.<ref name="SteeleMackintosh1994">{{cite book |author1=James Steele |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rg1QAAAAMAAJ |title=Charles Rennie Mackintosh: synthesis in form |author2=Charles Rennie Mackintosh |publisher=Academy Editions |year=1994 |isbn=9781854903839 |quote=Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born on 7 June 1868 at 70 Parson Street, next to the Martyrs' School in the Townhead district of Glasgow. His father, Wiliam McIntosh, married to Margaret Rennie, was a police superintendent, and there were 11 children in the family, living in a flat on the top floor of a three-storey tenement. 1n 1878, a promotion made it possible for the family to move to No 2 Firpark Terrace, Dennistown, further out from the city.}}</ref><ref>Ellis Woodman, 1 March 2015, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/architecture/11440936/Glasgow-School-of-Art-Charles-Rennie-Mackintosh-in-Exile.html Charles Rennie Mackintosh: 'Glasgow's very own architectural genius'], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]].''</ref>
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