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Donald Moodie was an artist, academic, a former President of the Society of Scottish Artists 1937-41. He was awarded the Gutherie Academy’s Guthrie Award in 1924.

Moodie was born in Edinburgh in 1892 and attended George Heriot's School. Later studied art at Edinburgh College of Art, where he was awarded a postgraduate scholarship in 1914. Moodie served in World War One with the 5th Battalion of Royal Scots, seeing action in the Gallipoli campaign. He was mentioned in Dispatches. This experience was the basis for sketches entered into the Edinburgh Arts Students Exhibition of 1919.

Moodie married Susan Anderson Binnie a graduate of medicine form the University of Edinburgh in 1925 at Lynmill, Avonbridge.