Basic Biographical Details

Name:	Anderson Simon & Crawford
Designation:
Born:	1899
Died:	1902
Bio Notes:	Frank Lewis Worthington Simon was born on 31 March 1862 at Darmstadt, Germany, the son of David Worthington Simon DD MA PhD. He was educated at Tettenhall College, Wolverhampton and the King Edward VI Grammar School in Birmingham, and was articled to John Cotton in Birmingham in 1879. At the end of his apprenticeship, c.1882, he became an assistant to Jethro Anstice Cossins in the same city before joining the atelier of Jean Louis Pascal and enrolling c.1883 at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he spent only one year and was a contemporary of Alexander Nisbet Paterson, John Keppie and Stewart Henbest Capper, sharing rooms with the latter two. After completing the course he spent about a year in Glasgow with Burnet Son & Campbell in 1886 and then a similar period with Wardrop & Anderson: according to his RIBA nomination paper he joined that firm just prior to George Washington Browne's departure. Throughout that period, from sometime before March 1885, Simon had his own studio at 8 York Place from which he made a fine series of drawings of old Edinburgh which formed the basis of his 'Etchings of Old Edinburgh'. He won the Tite Prize in 1887 and commenced independent practice in the following year at 34 St Andrew Square, his first significant commission being a fine house, Outwood, at 8 Mortonhall Road for his father, who had now become Principal Simon. He then formed a partnership with his fellow student at Pascal's, Stewart Henbest Capper, winning the competition for Hope Chapel, Wigan, in 1888. In 1890 Simon came into prominence as the architect of the Edinburgh International Exhibition of that year, working in collaboration with the artist-architect William Allan Carter who also had his own studio at 5 St Andrew Square; in that same year Rowand Anderson and David MacGibbon persuaded thirty well-off individuals to subscribe £1,200 for the formation of the Edinburgh School of Applied Art at the Royal Institution. When classes commenced on 17 October 1892 Simon was its first professor with George Mackie Watson as first assistant, quickly joined by his brother John who had run the Edinburgh Architectural Association classes and by Capper, the last giving the School as a whole a marked Ecole des Beaux-Arts bias in its teaching. All owed their appointments to Anderson's patronage, the Watson brothers also being ex-assistants of Anderson's while Capper was an ex-assistant of his former partner George Washington Browne. Simon moved his private practice to 36 Hanover Street late in 1891 or early 1892. The School of Applied Art was hugely successful in attracting students and later that same year 1892, pressure of work at the School - where the classes were from 8 to 10am - induced Simon to end his partnership with Capper and enter a short-lived partnership with Charles Edward Tweedie. Tweedie's provenance is not yet known but he had a one-year-old son suggesting an age of about thirty. The Simon & Tweedie partnership won the competition for Llanelly Town Hall in 1892 but lost the commission to the local architect William Griffiths. It had more success in Manchester where Simon had won the competition for the Macfadyen Memorial Church, an office being opened in Manchester to build it. The Simon & Tweedie partnership seems to have closed late in 1895 or early in 1896 and in 1897 Simon resigned his chair to concentrate wholly on his practice. About 1898 Simon merged his practice with that of Alexander Hunter Crawford Crawford had been born in 1865 of the biscuit-making family. He had been articled c.1880 to John Russell Walker and had remained there until 1885 or 1886 when he had moved to London. After a couple of short-term appointments he had secured a place in the office of Ralph Selden Wornum in 1887, from whom he had moved to the LCC Architects Department for six months early in 1891. He had returned to Edinburgh in August 1891 to commence independent practice at 39 York Place. The new partnership of Simon & Crawford was based in Simon's office at 36 Hanover Street. In the following year, 1899, there was a further merger with Rowand Anderson's practice as Anderson, Simon & Crawford. While some clients saw Anderson's age and difficult temperament as a problem - he was then sixty-five - the catalyst may have been the competition for the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1901 for which they prepared an entry. This partnership also proved brief, being dissolved in 1902 as a result of a lawsuit. Simon and Craword then reverted to their previous partnership name, with an office at 10 Randolph Place, Simon's address then being 67 Great King Street.

Private and Business Addresses

The following private or business addresses are associated with this :
	Address	Type	Date from	Date to	Notes
	16, Rutland Square, Edinburgh, Scotland	Private	1899	1902

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
	John McIntyre	1899	January 1900	Apprentice
	Walter Symington Athol Gordon	1899	1901	Apprentice
	(Sir) Robert Rowand Anderson	1899	1902	Partner
	Frank Lewis Worthington Simon	1899	1902	Partner
	James McLachlan	1899	1902	Assistant
	Peter Reid	1899	1902	Apprentice
	John Stuart Syme	1899	1902	Chief Assistant
	Alexander Hunter Crawford	1899	July 1902	Partner
	William Meek Page	1899	1903	Chief Assistant
	John Alfred Taylor Houston	May 1899	May 1900	Assistant
	James Straton Ferrier	October 1899	1902	Apprentice
	William Beattie-Brown	1900	1902	Draughtsman
	David Morton Brown	1900	1902	Assistant	under Alexander Hunter Crawford
	William Dean	1901	1901
	Donald MacPherson Gordon	1901	1901	Assistant
	Walter Fairbairn	1901	1902	Chief Assistant
	John Thomas Galletly	c. 1901	c. 1902	Junior 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
	1899	Colinton Bank House	Colinton		Edinburgh	Scotland	Additions and alterations
	1899	District Asylum for Midlothian and Peebles	Roslin/Rosslyn		Midlothian	Scotland	Two new wings added
	1899	Falkirk Old Parish Church	Falkirk		Stirlingshire	Scotland	Additions and alterations
	1899	Feuing, Braid Estate			Edinburgh	Scotland
	1899	Feuing, Fettes Estate			Edinburgh	Scotland
	1899	Freeland House			Perthshire	Scotland	Additions - partial remodelling of entrance front
	1899	Inchinnan Parish Church	Inchinnan		Renfrewshire	Scotland
	1899	Keir House	Dunblane		Perthshire	Scotland	New dining room and smoking room and gates of old Lecropt churchyard
	1899	Perth Evangelical Union Church	Perth		Perthshire	Scotland	Begun by Simon alone; completed in partnership
	1899	Pollok House, including lodges			Glasgow	Scotland	Additions and alterations - porch, kitchen wing and terrace. Glasgow Storey gives details of alterations: The changes included installing electric lighting, a modern kitchen and additional bathrooms with hot and cold running water. Also two new wings constructed. This billiard room is on the principal floor in one of the new wings.
	1899	University of St Andrews, St Mary's College	St Andrews		Fife	Scotland	Remodelling of senate room in library
	1900	Dalmeny Street Drill Hall	Leith		Edinburgh	Scotland
	1900	Dunfermline Abbey	Dunfermline		Fife	Scotland	West window of south transept?
	1900	Ecton Lodge	Inverleith		Edinburgh	Scotland	Alexander Hunter Crawford mainly responsible
	1900	University of St Andrews, Chapel of St Salvator	St Andrews		Fife	Scotland	Pulpit
	1901	Claremont Congregational Church	Blackpool		Lancashire	England
	1901	Pearce Memorial Hall and Institute	Govan		Glasgow	Scotland	Executed scheme
	1901	St James Episcopal Church	Cupar		Fife	Scotland	Pulpit - Anderson responsible (executed by Whytock, Reid & Co, Edinburgh)
	1901	Villas, 16-18 Primrose Bank Road	Trinity		Edinburgh	Scotland	Alterations (designed by Crawford)
	1902	Baile-na-Coille	Balmoral		Aberdeenshire	Scotland	May have begun in partnership but completed by Anderson
	1902	Balmoral Castle	Balmoral		Aberdeenshire	Scotland	Alterations and additions including infill of arches on south front (or possibly by Mackenzie). Raising service court on south side. Also other work on estate.
	1902	Inchinnan Parish Church Hall	Inchinnan		Renfrewshire	Scotland

References

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