Basic Biographical Details

Name:	Burnet Son & Campbell
Designation:
Born:	13 August 1886
Died:	1897
Bio Notes:	Burnet Son & Campbell was the name of the practice of John Burnet between 1886 and 1897, its title immediately before and after this period being John Burnet & Son. John Burnet was born at Craighead House, Kirk o' Shotts on 27 September 1814, the son of Lieutenant George Burnet of the Kirkcudbright and Galloway Militia, and his wife Margaret Wardlaw, who was the daughter of a Dalkeith merchant, John Wardlaw. He was educated at Dunipace Parish School and thereafter apprenticed as a carpenter, graduating to architecture through experience as a clerk of works with a Mr Smith, architect and builder, who can be safely identified with John Smith, originally of Alloa and after 1826 of Glasgow, as Burnet's earliest clients were in the Alloa-Clackmannan area. Such architectural training as he had probably came from Smith's son James. Burnet commenced practice on his own account in 1843 with free churches at Shandon, Alloa and Clackmannan, all in a simple round-arched Italian style. By 1845 he was sufficiently prosperous to marry Elizabeth Hay Bennet, the daughter of Lindsay Bennet, merchant, Leith. She was an ambitious lady and a driving force behind the practice. Within a few years he had taken his younger brother William Cadell Burnet (born 1828) into the practice as pupil and for a time assistant, but the latter preferred to settle in London. Initially he shared an office with another brother, George, who was a merchant there, but subsequently transferred his business to the United States. Burnet was essentially self-taught from a large and important library which included Durand, Letarouilly, Viollet-le-Duc and the Architectural Publication Society's Dictionary, for which he was Glasgow correspondent perhaps through connections formed by his brother. He rose in prominence in the mid-1850s with the pure Greek temple of Elgin Place Church, with the Clapperton/Middeton warehouse in Miller Street, which was remarkable for its central well and laminated timber roof structure, and with Madeira Court on Argyle Street, which was strongly influenced by Charles Wilson's work. Thereafter his practice flourished in part as a result of success in limited competitions, but he acquired good connections among the Glasgow merchants and shipowners for whom he designed large baronial houses at Auchendennan, Arden, Kildalton and Kilmahew in the mid-1860s. By that date he had also become an accomplished Gothic designer, most notably at Woodlands Church and the Glasgow Stock Exchange, where he exploited features from William Burges's London Law Courts design - his brother William was architectural clerk to the competition - a skilful plagiarism which did not escape Burges's attention, although he seems to have allowed the matter to pass without comment. In his final years he was responsible for three of the city's most important buildings: the Clydesdale Bank, the Merchants' House and the Cockerell-inspired reconstruction of the Union Bank, in the later stages of which he was assisted by his son John James, certainly after his return from Paris at the end of 1876 and probably earlier. Burnet is known to have travelled and sketched in Germany, France and Italy but dates are lacking. His visits to Germany probably related to the education of his eldest son George Wardlaw Burnet, who studied at Heidelberg in the mid-1870s, while those in France certainly related to his the education of his youngest son John James Burnet (born on 31 May 1857) at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. John James had been educated at the Collegiate School and the Western Academy in Glasgow, and at Blair Lodge Academy, a once-famous private boarding establishment at Polmont. After approximately two years' training in his father's office from 1871, his parents seem to have intended him to study at the Royal Academy Schools under Richard Phené Spiers. In the event Spiers had advised him to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris rather than at his own School. Initially his parents did not approve, not so much because of the expense but because France was Catholic, the Commune was only just over, and the political relationship between the United Kingdom and the new Third Republic was not encouraging. But first his mother and then his father were won over, and in the autumn of 1871 his father took him to Paris to meet his future master Jean Louis Pascal, who was then about to become patron of the Atelier Blouet-Gilbert-Questel and had just succeeded Lefuel as Chief Inspector for the completion of the Louvre. In 1920 John James recalled their meeting: 'I will never forget the sight of this short well-built man, his coat off and a cigar in his mouth, who rose from his desk as one of his assistants led us up the long and lofty gallery which formed his office in the new buildings to present one letter of introduction from his former pupil Phené Spiers. His fine intellectual head with his rather long black hair and keen though kindly eyes, and his beautiful courtesy as he greeted my father in perfect English as a brother artist immediately won my admiration.' In Pascal's atelier John James respected his parents' warning about Paris to such a degree that his cheerful moral rectitude earned him the petit-nom of 'Joseph' while his Scottish complexion brought that of 'confiture de groseilles'. Unlike his parents and brothers who were all very tall, John James grew only to about 5' 10''. There is considerable conflict of information about the dates of John James's time in Paris. These are usually given as 1874-77, which are those in 'Who's Who in Glasgow' 1909 and in 'Who's Who in Architecture' 1914, 1923 and 1926. These were presumably supplied by John James himself: but his RIBA nomination paper gives the date of his entry to the Ecole as 1872, which was probably the year of his entry to Pascal's atelier as a probationer. The records of the Ecole show that he passed the entrance exam in 1874. Thereafter his progress was very rapid; he reached the première classe in the following year and completed the course in 1876, gaining his Diplôme du Gouvernement in architecture and engineering. But the 'Architect's Journal' of 2 June 1920 gives the date of his first meeting with Pascal as 1874, while the RIBA Journal of 26 June 1920 gives the date as 'the latter half of 1877', probably really 1871 or 1872 and a misreading of John James's handwriting. In the RIBA Journal he gives the period he spent with Pascal as 'nearly three years' whereas his nomination paper indicates four, but that perhaps excludes the time he spent in Paris as an assistant with François Rolland. In Pascal's atelier, John James found that 'it did not seem to take [Pascal] an instant to realise the possibilities of any sketch that his pupil might put before him, and he always left us either happily convinced that our sketch was not worth further trouble, or with our eyes opened to artistic possibilities in it of which we had not dreamed, giving us courage to go through the days and nights required to make the finished drawings. He had a wonderful power of accepting the conception of his pupil and helping him to develop it in his own way…'. While at Pascal's, John James developed a close friendship with a more senior pupil, Henri Paul Nénot, with whose family he may have lived as there is record of his affectionate acknowledgement of their kindness: very unusually his Ecole dossier does not give the address of his lodgings. Both Pascal and Nénot were to remain lifelong friends, the former visiting the Burnets in Glasgow and later in London. While the influence of Nénot was to be obvious at John James's Glasgow Athenaeum, in later years John James felt that he had not been influenced stylistically by Pascal; and while this is superficially true, Pascal's teaching and love of sculptural treatment both left their mark on him, as did the Ecole's emphasis on logic. In Goodhart Rendel's words, he acquired 'a tremendous love of order and system. He never lost hold of the essentials and thought no one in England knew anything about them. He used to say that nothing should be done without a decision behind it.' At the end of the course John James made an extended tour of France and Italy, returning to Glasgow at the end of 1876 to assist his father with the new façade and secretary's department at the Union Bank in Ingram Street. Although he was still in Paris when the overall design was finalised in April 1876, and although he never claimed any responsibility for it, it appears in the lists of his works published when he received the Royal Gold Medal in 1920 and again when he died in 1938. It was not completed until February 1879, giving him ample time to refine its superb detailing. Burnet Senior was elected FRIBA on 4 December 1876, his proposers being John Honeyman, John Macvicar Anderson and Wyatt Papworth, editor of the Architectural Publication Society's Dictionary, but his active role as an architect soon came to an end after John James's return from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts: Henry Edward Clifford may have had a significant role even earlier, as may the elder Burnet's nephew William Landless. The first building which John James himself regarded as his own was the Fine Art Institute in Glasgow, which he won in competition in May 1878. Its stated aim was to combine 'Greek with modern French Renaissance' and the inclusion of a magnificent frieze by the Mossmans was well calculated to appeal in Glasgow where Thomson, Sellars and the Barclays had ensured that Greek still had a strong hold. Although the interior was pure Greek with a Pascalesque use of sculpture in the stairhall, the yellow and brown decorative scheme with pine woodwork stained a golden colour had elements of Japonisme, a recurring theme in John James's interiors. For the Glasgow Municipal Buildings competitions of 1880-82 John James produced superb schemes, that for the second being unique in having a cour d'honneur, but they attracted no favour from the assessors, mainly because they departed from Carrick's outline plans but perhaps also because their Beaux-Arts classicism was far removed from the assessors' Italianate tastes. Much of the quality John James's designs would have had, had he been called upon to build them, was realised in both the façade and the interiors of the Clyde Navigation Trust building in 1882-86, even although his full intentions for this incrementally built structure were never realised because of the First World War. The Clyde Navigation Trust commission enabled the Burnet practice to weather the recession better than most. On 3 January 1881 John James was admitted ARIBA on the strength of his diplôme, his proposers being John Honeyman, Charles Barry and his father; and in the Spring of that year John James made a second tour of France and Italy with his advocate brother George, on this occasion sketching little and simply taking in what he saw. In the following year, 1882, his father took him into partnership, the practice title now becoming John Burnet & Son. On 13 August 1886 John Archibald Campbell was taken into partnership, the practice title changing to John Burnet Son & Campbell. Campbell had been born at 20 Park Circus, Anderston, Glasgow on 26 January 1859, the son of Archibald Campbell, merchant, and his wife Grace Victoria Gibson: his paternal grandfather was William Campbell of Tullichewan, a connection which brought a number of commissions in and around Alexandria, and he was a cousin of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. His father had died aged 35 on 9 January 1861 when he was barely two years old. He had been educated privately, probably because his mother travelled a great deal on the continent, taking her children with her: this had brought a useful command of languages and from an early age he was fluent in both French and German. He had been articled to John Burnet Senior in 1877 at the age of eighteen, and whilst there had been befriended by John James Burnet. In 1880 he had followed John James to Pascal's atelier and been admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He had returned to the Burnet practice in 1883, and in 1885 had won the Tite prize. Although in their earlier years they were close friends, Campbell and John James Burnet were very different in both background and personality: Campbell was tall, bearded and very reserved in manner, his family and business connections being such that he did not need to seek publicity. Theodore Fyfe, who was with them both as apprentice and assistant, remembered them as working independently, collaborating only on some competition projects, for which they tended to send in separate designs. Others remembered them consulting each other for advice. Neither John James nor Campbell ever fully clarified Campbell's contribution to the partnership but Shawlands Church, the Ewing Gilmour Institute and the Free Church at Alexandria and a competition design for the Free Church at Elie are known to be Campbell's, and the Tullichewan Arms at Alexandria must be presumed to be his. In the same year, 1886, John James married Jean Watt Marwick, youngest of the four six-feet-tall daughters of Glasgow's Town Clerk, Sir James Marwick: like the Burnets, the Marwicks were Congregationalists. She was a classic late Victorian beauty with an enchanting smile but although she was a wonderful hostess when occasion demanded, she was a hypochondriac and spent much of her time in bed. There were to be no children of the marriage, but as John James's brother George died early when Sheriff Substitute of Aberdeen (as a result of the collapse of his bamboo bicycle), they undertook the education of his children John and Edith. The year 1886 was also an auspicious one for the practice. John James established a national reputation by winning the competition for the Edinburgh International Exhibition of that year with a domed scheme which, on a much smaller scale, recalled the façade of Leopold Hardy's Paris Exhibition building of 1878. He also secured the commission for the new Glasgow Athenaeum, the façade of which drew inspiration from Nénot's Grand Prix design for an Athenée. Both these buildings were pure Beaux-Arts and very sculptural in treatment. But they soon found that while such treatments were readily acceptable for great public projects and particularly cultural ones, they had to be more adaptable for private client work, especially when domestic. Saughfield Terrace (now University Gardens), begun in 1882 or earlier, had pure Beaux-Arts details but had Glaswegian canted oriels above its first-floor balcony: Charing Cross Mansions, designed in 1891, had the outline and sculptural grande horloge of a Parisian Mairie, but again Glaswegian canted oriels were integrated into the composition and the fenestration as a whole answered the function of the rooms within rather than being strictly to rule as it would have been in France. From the autumn of 1886 until early in 1889 there was a third Beaux-Arts architect in the office, Alexander Nisbet Paterson, whose family, like Campbell's, was extremely well-off: they were muslin merchants. He was the younger brother of James Paterson the French-trained Glasgow School painter, and an excellent watercolourist whose skills in presentation were to be seen in the perspectives of the new buildings on the Duke of Hamilton's Arran estate in the late 1880s. But prior to the elder Burnet's retirement the French schooling of the three leading practitioners in the office brought some problems in its day-to-day running. Neither John James nor Campbell was at all cost-conscious and French building science scared the elder Burnet stiff as inappropriate for the Scottish climate and a foreign language to the Scottish building trade. The frustration and delays endured by Alexander McGibbon and William Kerr in drawing out the tower of St Molio's at Shiskine with hollow walls, only to be told to redraw them solid by the elder Burnet, a procedure repeated over several weeks, became the stuff of office legend. In 1889-90 John Burnet Senior retired at the age of seventy-five. Outwith the office his interests were sketching and fishing. He died in Glasgow on 15 January 1901, leaving moveable estate of £3,210 5s 2d. He was predeceased by his second son Lindsay, who was a mechanical engineer; by his daughter Elizabeth; and by his eldest son George Wardlaw. Only John James and Margaret (Mrs John Edwards) survived him. The elder Burnet retired in 1889 or 1890 at the age of seventy-five. Thereafter the architecture of the practice changed radically. Both John James Burnet and Campbell realised that they had to adapt to the London scene if they were to keep abreast of fashion and have any chance in national competitions, most of which had London assessors, Waterhouse in particular. Superb designs with cylindrical corner turrets on the Norman Shaw model were produced for the Central Thread Agency in Glasgow and for the North British Hotel in Edinburgh but neither found favour with the clients. This dramatic shift in style was first seen at Burnet's Athenaeum Theatre of 1891-93 which pioneered the redevelopment of Glasgow's narrow houseplots as tall elevator buildings. Although American in general concept, it took Burnet's work into a sculpturesque neo-Baroque, some of the details of which derived from Shaw but was overall closer to the work of John Belcher and Beresford Pite, both of whom shared Burnet's enthusiasm for the sculpture of Michaelangelo and Alfred Stevens. As at the Fine Art Institute, the interior had a Japanese colour scheme in Burnet's favourite colours - azure blue, yellow and gold. In 1895 Burnet's neo-Baroque was developed in a more academic form at the single-storey telling room added to his father's Savings Bank. Its doorpiece was, very unusually, directly based on an English Baroque source, the porch of St Mary's Church at Oxford, but with some remarkable 'New Sculpture' by George Frampton. To further his experiments in neo-Baroque the Burnets made a further study tour in Germany and Italy in that same year: he saw Italian architecture completely anew, writing long letters to Campbell with (in Fyfe's words) 'the fresh delight of a debutante about her first ball'. Burnet Baroque, and the giant arch and canted bay theme of the Athenaeum Theatre in particular, were rapidly assimilated by Burnet Son & Campbell's competitors. By 1900 it had become the common language of Glasgow building and even spread to Edinburgh where Burnet's former assistant Andrew Robb Scott adopted the features of his North British competition design in the hotel buildings he designed for William Hamilton Beattie on the east side of North Bridge. In 1896 the Burnets made their first visit to the USA in the company of Dr Donald Mackintosh of the Western Infirmary. Old contacts at the Ecole made introductions easy and Burnet became a member of the American Beaux-Arts Cosmos Club and a corresponding member of the American Institute of Architects; but by that date he also had family connections there, his uncle George and his sons, and his younger accountant brother-in-law James Marwick who had settled in New York: he became auditor of Illinois and Ohio, and founder of the giant firm of Marwick, Mitchell and Peat which had a London office. The primary purpose of the 1896 visit was to study laboratory and operating theatre design, but Burnet had become interested in American architecture, and particularly American domestic architecture, at least a decade earlier. American shingle-style influences had first appeared in his domestic work in 1886 at the Edinburgh International Exhibition manager's house, Corrienessan at Loch Ard and Nunholme in Dowanhill, and still more in his competition designs for the Clyde Yacht Club at Hunger's Quay in 1889. This low-profiled big-roofed broad-eaved style quickly spread into Burnet's ecclesiastical work at St Molio's, Shiskine (1887), Dundas Memorial Church at Grangemouth (1894), the Gardner Memorial Church at Brechin (1896-1900), and the MacLaren Memorial Church at Stenhousemuir and the Burnet family's own church Broomhill Congregational in 1899-1908, all with squat pyramid-roofed towers and mixed Romanesque and late Gothic detail. They were a low-cost easy-to-heat alternative to the tall Early English Dunblane Cathedral-inspired churches with which the practice had made its name in ecclesiastical architecture at Port Glasgow and Shawlands, and most famously at Glasgow Barony for which Burnet had won a major competition assessed by John Loughborough Pearson in 1886. With the earlier of these church designs Burnet and Campbell were assisted by Andrew Robb Scott. Burnet Son & Campbell's low-profiled idiom also had a brief vogue in their public buildings, most notably at Campbell's Ewing Gilmour Institute at Alexandria in 1888, and, rather later, at Burnet's Public Library and Museum in Campbeltown, built in 1896-98. In style these were a distinctive Scottish renaissance which had its origins in the addition they made at William Burn's neo-Jacobean Auchterarder House in 1886. It was brilliantly exploited at Baronald, Lanark, in 1890, at the Pathological Institute of the Western Infirmary in Glasgow in 1895 and at Alloa Public Baths in 1899. Altogether bolder and more original than the work of Rowand Anderson and his school in this vein, Burnet and Campbell Scots Renaissance was as rapidly assimilated by their competitors as Burnet Baroque, most notably by the practice's former assistants Clifford and Paterson, and by Honeyman & Keppie, but in the hands of lesser practitioners the idiom could become seriously debased: except at Fairnalie, built in 1904-06, Burnet did not pursue it into the twentieth century. In 1897 Burnet's partnership with John Archibald Campbell was dissolved by mutual consent, the practice returning to its former title of John Burnet & Son. Of that event Burnet's niece Edith observed that 'drink had something to do with it': but they remained friends although by that date Campbell had become closer to Keppie, whose bachelor lifestyle was similar to his own. While it is unlikely to have had any real bearing on the break-up, Quiz's article on the partners in September 1893 had been a mischievous attempt to exploit any difference there might have been between them, describing the Athenaeum Theatre as 'a little like its author, clever but a trifle "cocksure"' and Campbell's Free Church at Alexandria as being 'as good as has been done by the firm as far as it goes, Barony not excepted'. Whatever personal differences there may have been, the initiative for the dissolution probably came from Campbell as he had not succeeded in establishing his own identity as an architect. The division of the practice was carried out in a very civilised way, the staff being given some say in which partner they wanted to stay with, and Campbell quickly established a larger clientele, designing in a style subtly different from Burnet's. It is also probable that Campbell had begun to become concerned by the practice's very high running costs which must have eroded profits. Fyfe provides a vivid picture of the drawing office which, like William Leiper's, was given a studio atmosphere with good pictures and sculpture: 'Burnet rarely worked at a drawing board except in his house. His spruce and perfectly turned out figure and his active springy step could be seen passing through the office occasionally though prevailing custom made the senior draughtsmen take sheaves of drawings and tracings into the principal's room. This was seeing "Johnny", sometimes a matter of trepidation. To the pupils he was an awful mystery and a supreme man, though very human, and he always said he didn't mind a "yell" as it showed that a man was enjoying his work and they felt lucky enough to get a passing smile from him once a month. On the comparatively rare occasions when he sat down at some draughtsman's desk he usually sketched out isometric diagrams with a soft pencil on tracing paper and after he had left the junior staff crowded round and reverently regarded these masterpieces, as such they generally were of their kind; for a capacity to turn any aspect of construction or design inside out in sketch form I have never known anyone who could touch John James Burnet - he was in a class by himself.' Projects always started with small-scale pencil sketch designs, the equivalent of the Ecole's esquisse, and for a short period about 1895, he experimented with photographic enlargement of these from 1/8th to 1/2 scale lest the draughtsmen did not interpret them boldly enough, until his office manager George Galloway became seriously concerned at the bills incurred. Legend has it that he showed them to Burnet's father, but by that date he was rarely seen in the office. To quote Fyfe further: 'He was a master in the art of designing on tracing paper, which means that his fastidious taste was never satisfied till he had gone through a process of trial and error that to his draughtsmen seemed inexhaustible; and he never expected any tracing - however slight - to be destroyed until all possible use for it had disappeared. This and his insistence on scale by rigid adherence to the most minute facts of the small scale in the half-inch and so on to full-size drawings were the mainsprings of his design methods … It was a commonplace that he would not look at a scheme (he would say "I can't see it") unless it were presented to him in every possible aspect and drawn to "the millionth of an inch" in exactness.' Others recorded how the final result was studied under a large reducing glass and sometimes even miniaturised to 1/8th again and compared to the esquisse to ensure that the qualities of the original concept had not been compromised. If a scheme failed to satisfy, all these tracings were laid aside and a fresh start made, no matter how much time had been spent on them. Inevitably the practice never made much money but the staff - far more numerous than in any other Glasgow office - learned much from these design methods. Burnet took his role as a teacher very seriously and the staff would regularly receive an individual 'pep talk' with both standing, always with the exhortation to study the classics and frequent reference to his books, those of Paul Letarouilly being particular favourites.

Private and Business Addresses

The following private or business addresses are associated with this :
	Address	Type	Date from	Date to	Notes
	167, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland	Business	Before 1888	1897

Employment and Training

Employees or Pupils

The following individuals were employed or trained by this (click on an item to view details):
	Name	Date from	Date to	Position	Notes
	Andrew Robb Scott	1884	c. 1886	Draughtsman
	Frank Lewis Worthington Simon	1886	c. 1887	Assistant
	Alexander Nisbet Paterson	1886	1889	Improver	Draughtsman by the time he left
	John James Joass	13 August 1886	January 1890	Apprentice
	John Burnet (senior)	13 August 1886	1897	Partner
	(Sir) John James Burnet	13 August 1886	1897	Partner
	John Archibald Campbell	13 August 1886	1897	Partner
	Robert Wemyss	After 1886(?)	Before 1895	Assistant
	Andrew Hamilton	1888	1891	Apprentice
	Alexander McGibbon	1889	1890	Assistant
	John Arthur	1889	1897	Assistant	finally head assistant; joined Campbell when partnership broke up.
	James Wright (junior)	November 1889	c. 1894(?)	Apprentice
	William John Smith Gibson	Before 1889	After 1890	Apprentice(?)
	John Stewart	1890	1892	Assistant
	David Theodore Fyfe	September 1890	September 1895	Apprentice
	William John Blain	1892	c. 1896	Assistant
	James Cumming Wynnes	1892	1897	Apprentice
	Andrew Edwin Martin	1893	1897	Apprentice
	Thomas Stewart Purdie	December 1893	1897	Assistant
	Gordon Lorimer Wright	1894	1897	Apprentice
	(Major) James Milne-Davidson	1894	1897	Apprentice
	James Wright (junior)	c. 1894(?)	1897	Assistant
	Alan George MacNaughtan	1895	1897	Apprentice
	David Theodore Fyfe	September 1895	June 1897	Draughtsman
	Leslie Dowie	1896	1897	Senior Assistant
	John Forsyth McIlwraith	1896	1897	Improver
	Stewart McLauchlan	1896	1897	Apprentice
	George Ronald Bryce	June 1896	1897	Apprentice
	William Arthur Laurie Carrick	September 1896	1897	Apprentice
	William John Blain	c. 1896	1897	Chief Assistant

Buildings and Designs

This was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details):
	Date started	Building name	Town, district or village	Island	City or county	Country	Notes
		Feuing scheme survey, Gallanach	Oban		Argyll	Scotland	May have been Campbell alone (if post-1897), but probably by Burnet as he subsequently extended Gallanach House
	1886	Athenaeum			Glasgow	Scotland	Original building on St George's Place
	1886	Auchterarder House and west lodge and gates			Perthshire	Scotland	Remodelling - porte cochere, billiard room, winter garden and internal refitting of house. Also west lodge and gates 1889
	1886	Barony Parish Church			Glasgow	Scotland	Won competition and secured job
	1886	Corrienessan	Loch Ard, Aberfoyle		Perthshire	Scotland
	1886	Established Church	Corrie	Arran	Bute	Scotland
	1886	House at Kilwinning	Kilwinning		Ayrshire	Scotland
	1886	Shawlands Parish Church	Shawlands		Glasgow	Scotland
	1886	Wood Memorial Free Church	Elie		Fife	Scotland	Unsuccessful competition design - placed ist or 2nd (Sydney Mitchell appointed)
	1887	9 Park Circus Place			Glasgow	Scotland	Billiard room
	1887	Nunholme	Dowanhill		Glasgow	Scotland	Design exhibited - major reconstruction of existing house
	1887	Royal Clyde Yacht Club and Hotel	Dunoon		Argyll	Scotland	Competition design - not successful
	1888	Ewing Gilmour Institute for Working Girls	Alexandria		Dunbartonshire	Scotland	Principally designed by J A Campbell
	1888	St Molio's Parish Church	Shiskine	Arran	Bute	Scotland	With William Kerr and Alexander McGibbon as assistants on the drawings
	1888	The Chesters	Bearsden		Glasgow	Scotland	Internal refitting of earlier house
	1888	Villas for J Smellie Junior			Glasgow	Scotland
	1889	Baronald	Lanark		Lanarkshire	Scotland
	1889	Charing Cross Mansions and shops			Glasgow	Scotland
	1889	Edinbarnet			Dunbartonshire	Scotland	Major reconstruction after fire
	1889	Free Church	Alexandria		Dunbartonshire	Scotland
	1889	Largs Parish Church and Memorial Halls	Largs		Ayrshire	Scotland	Competition design - unsuccessful
	1889	Marine Hotel	Elie		Fife	Scotland
	After 1889(?)	New house	Whiting Bay	Arran	Bute	Scotland	Date unclear; may have been done later, under John Burnet & Son
	After 1889	Western Infirmary			Glasgow	Scotland	Additions including nurses' pavilion, steam laundry, pathological institute and operating theatre
	1890	Garmoyle	Dumbarton		Dunbartonshire	Scotland
	1890	Levenford House	Dumbarton		Dunbartonshire	Scotland	Interior remodelling and addition
	1891	Athenaeum			Glasgow	Scotland	Extension facing Buchanan Street
	1891	Ayr Public Library	Ayr		Ayrshire	Scotland	Competition design - not successful
	1891	Caledonian Insurance Office			Glasgow	Scotland	Unexecuted proposal to build additional floors - 'Proposed building in St Vincent Street'
	1891	Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum	Kelvingrove		Glasgow	Scotland	Unsuccessful competition design
	1891	J & P Coats Offices			Glasgow	Scotland	Competition design - not successful
	1891	Killean House (new)	Tayinloan		Argyll	Scotland	Further work
	1891	Tullichewan Arms	Balloch		Dunbartonshire	Scotland
	1892	Aerated Water Factory, 65 East King Street	Helensburgh		Dunbartonshire	Scotland
	1892	Cathedral Court, workmen's housing			Glasgow	Scotland
	1892	Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons			Glasgow	Scotland
	1893	Arbroath Parish Church	Arbroath		Angus	Scotland	Won competition and secured commission
	1893	Established Church	Glenboig		Lanarkshire	Scotland
	1893	Feuing at Whiting Bay	Whiting Bay	Arran	Bute	Scotland	Feuing plan
	1893	Hamilton Terrace	Lamlash	Arran	Bute	Scotland
	1893	Skinner's Bakery and tea room	Charing Cross		Glasgow	Scotland	Earlier work - perhaps by Burnet, Son & Campbell
	1893	University of Glasgow Students' Union			Glasgow	Scotland	Western extension
	1894	Campbeltown Cottage Hospital	Campbeltown		Argyll	Scotland
	1894	Dougarie Lodge		Arran	Bute	Scotland	Proposed additions - not built following the death of the 12th Duke in 1895
	1894	Dundas UP Church	Grangemouth		Stirlingshire	Scotland
	1894	Glasgow Savings Bank Headquarters			Glasgow	Scotland	Banking hall in Ingram Street added
	1894	Glasgow Stock Exchange			Glasgow	Scotland	Extension in St George's Place
	1894	Glasgow Western Infirmary, Pathology Building			Glasgow	Scotland
	1894	Kirklee Station			Glasgow	Scotland
	1894	Lochranza Hotel		Arran	Bute	Scotland	Large scheme proposed & exhibited but reduced scheme also exhibited in the same year. Reduced scheme executed
	1894	Princes Dock and hydraulic power station	Queen's Dock/Cessnock Dock		Glasgow	Scotland	Hydraulic power station
	1894	Village Hall	Brodick	Arran	Bute	Scotland
	c. 1894	Dougarie Lodge, boathouse		Arran	Bute	Scotland	Attribution; no documentary evidence found
	1895	Glasgow Cross Station			Glasgow	Scotland
	1895	Night Asylum			Glasgow	Scotland	Alterations
	1895	North British Railway Hotel			Edinburgh	Scotland	Competition design - not successful
	1895	Public Baths and gymnasium	Alloa		Clackmannanshire	Scotland
	1895	St Modan's Parish Church	Rosneath / Roseneath		Dunbartonshire	Scotland	Alterations
	1896	Aerated Water Factory			Glasgow	Scotland
	1896	Albany Chambers and shops	Charing Cross		Glasgow	Scotland
	1896	Albany Mansions			Glasgow	Scotland
	1896	Anderston Cross Station and associated buildings			Glasgow	Scotland
	1896	Black's warehouse			Glasgow	Scotland	Reconstruction as R W Forsyth's Store
	1896	Carronvale	Larbert		Stirlingshire	Scotland	Complete reconstruction - commission retained by Burnet after dissolution of partnership with Campbell
	1896	Clydebank Riverside Station	Clydebank		Dunbartonshire	Scotland
	1896	Gardner Memorial Church	Brechin		Angus	Scotland	Commission retained by Burnet after dissolution of partnership with Campbell
	1896	Glasgow School of Art			Glasgow	Scotland	Unsuccessful competition design
	1896(?)	Hotels	Whiting Bay	Arran	Bute	Scotland	By John James Burnet, either under Burnet Son & Campbell or John Burnet & Sons
	1896	Kelvinside Station			Glasgow	Scotland
	1896	Liverpool Museum extension and Technical Schools			Liverpool	England	Competition design - not successful
	1896(?)	Stables, Doonholm	Ayr		Ayrshire	Scotland	By John James Burnet, either under Burnet Son & Campbell or John Burnet & Sons
	c. 1896	Canal houses	Bowling		Dunbartonshire	Scotland
	1897	Dalskairth			Dumfriesshire	Scotland	Drawings record that earliest drawings were done while Campbell still in partnership - Scots Baronial scheme.

References

Bibliographic References

The following books contain references to this :
	Author(s)	Date	Title	Part	Publisher	Notes
	Rankin, Robert B	1953	Sir John Burnet RA, RSA, LLD and his works		in RIAS Quarterly no 94, November 1953