Basic Biographical Details Name: | James Alexander Beattie | Designation: | | Born: | c. 1846 | Died: | 20 February 1914 | Bio Notes: | James Alexander Beattie was born about 1846, the son of Aberdeen architect, surveyor and engineer and garden designer James Forbes Beattie, and his wife, Jane Byres Copland. He seems to have been an apprentice or assistant in his father's office and at some point in or before 1874 was taken into partnership as James F Beattie & Sons. This practice probably continued until the death of James Forbes Beattie on 10 January 1877 at Ecclesgreig, St Cyrus, Kincardineshire when he left heritable estate of £27,833 16s 11d. In the year of his father's death, James Alexander Beattie was taken into partnership by George James Walker of Portlethen. Walker was a relative of David Walker, surveyor, with whom the elder Beattie had practised in partnership early in his career. This was therefore the second Walker & Beattie practice. In about 1888 or 1889 (not 1913 as Muriel Barnett writes), the partnership was dissolved, and Beattie worked on his own until his death aged 68 on 20 February 1914. Coincidentally George James Walker died on the same day. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | Aberdeenshire, Scotland(?) | Business | | | | | Hillside, Cults, East Peter Culter, Aberdeenshire, Scotland | Private | | 1914 | |
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this : | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Barnett, Muriel | 1963 | Early Map-Makers and Ninteenth Century Surveyors of Aberdeen | 79 | Scottish Geographical Magazine, p114-117 | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this : | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | H M Register House | Death Register | | |
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