Basic Biographical Details Name: | Grahame Peat & Duncan | Designation: | | Born: | Before 1879 | Died: | 1890 | Bio Notes: | John Grahame (spelt Graham in his will) Peat was born in Alloa in 1828 or 1829, the son of Patrick Peat, commercial traveller and Bethia Grahame. He was apprenticed to Brown & Carrick, probably c.1845 and certainly before 1853 when the partnership was dissolved. Thereafter he appears to have been in Melbourne, Australia, with a Mr Burns, with whom he designed the façade of the Theatre Royal at Melbourne (no longer extant: date not traced and the record of his time in Australia is unclear). In 1863 he commenced independent practice at 60 Cadzow Street, Hamilton at the age of thirty-four, having married Jeanie Fleming at Tradeston on 24 December 1862. A son John George was born c.1864, and another, William G, followed c.1865, both born in Hamilton. In 1867 or 1868, in Hamilton, Peat married his second wife, Jeanie McLaren, a hosier at Argyll Arcade in Glasgow who presumably had means of her own.
By 1873-74 Peat was in partnership with Robert Duncan, who had been born c.1840 in Dumbarton, the son of Ebeneezer Duncan, builder and his wife Agnes Meikleham. Nothing is known of him until he was taken into partnership by Peat, the business encompassing that of housefactor and measurer as well as architect. It continued under the name of Grahame Peat & Duncan until c.1890.
Peat died at Hamilton of a cerebral haemorrhage on 25 February 1897. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland | Business | | | | | 157, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1871 | 1875 | | | 205, Hope Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1880 * | | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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