Name: | Kinnear & Peddie |
Designation: | |
Born: | 1879 |
Died: | 1894 or 1895 or 1896(?) |
Bio Notes: | The firm of Kinnear & Peddie was a continuation of the practice originated by John Dick Peddie (born 1824). Peddie had worked in partnership with Charles George Hood Kinnear (born 1830) from 1 January 1856 as Peddie & Kinnear, the firm becoming Peddie, Kinnear & Peddie in 1878 when Peddie's son John More Dick Peddie (born 1853) was taken into partnership. In the same year Peddie's fifth son Walter Lockhart Dick Peddie (born 1865) had also joined the firm.
The firm became Kinnear & Peddie in 1879 when the elder Peddie withdrew from the practice at the age of fifty-five. He did not become a retired Academician, thereby blocking the election of both Kinnear and his eldest son, and retained his membership by exhibiting old projects. He entered politics and was particularly active in the campaign for Disestablishment, but although it has been stated that the aim of his early retirement was to become Liberal MP for Kilmarnock Burghs, in reality it was at least as much for the purposes of repairing the family fortunes and providing for his unmarried sisters and daughters by becoming a fund manager. His sisters were a particular problem to him as his unmarried brother James had never had a particularly successful business and his father had somehow lost his money, probably through acting as a 'cautioner', which compelled him to sell the house his son built for him in Lansdowne Crescent in 1867 and become his son's tenant and pensioner in Chalmers Street.
The reputation of the practice and financial circumstances of the entire Peddie family were further compromised by John Dick Peddie's chartered accountant uncle Donald Smith Peddie who fled to the USA in November 1882 as a result of the divorce action by one of his clients, and was found to have liabilities of £75,000 and realisable assets of £4,565, chiefly represented by the house the elder Peddie had built for him in Trinity. Peddie's £800 bond on that property was amongst those 'left out of view' and the Peddie family had to subscribe heavily towards the £25,940 missing from the accounts of the Friendly Society of Dissenting Ministers which he had been raiding since at least 1845. Still more seriously Peddie's property, hydropathic and hotel companies all became insolvent from 1880 onwards with frequent calls for more capital. Making money thus became even more important than it had been, and the elder Peddie devoted the rest of his life to developing his international business interests and investments. It was on a voyage encompassing Australasia and the United States to inspect some of these operations in 1885 that Euphemia died and her body was brought home for burial in Dean Cemetery on 31 December. The elder Peddie himself died on 12 March 1891, leaving moveable assets of £26,432 2s 10d, liabilities of £10,002 13s 0d, his houses in Buckingham Terrace and Chalmers Street and the heavily mortgaged office building at 122 George Street. His net moveable estate was calculated at £16,429 9s 10d but because of bonds the net worth of his heritable property interests is difficult to guess.
As senior partner of Kinnear & Peddie, Kinnear initially tended to retain the larger public and commercial commissions: or at least that is what contemporary references seem to suggest in relation to Longmore Hospital and Craiglockhart Hydropathic, the Germanic classicism of which is a simplified continuation of the elder Peddie's Alexander Thomson-inspired work of the 1870s. The more ambitious country houses, particularly Drygrange, also followed well-tried Kinnear formulae but John More Dick Peddie and the younger members of staff must have done much of the detailing which had become more academically neo-Jacobean with Aesthetic Movement influences.
Like every other practice Kinnear & Peddie's was affected by the recession following the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank. But although the banks had lost money in the Donald Smith Peddie frauds, they remained loyal. The Bank of Scotland's George Street branch, designed by J M Dick Peddie in 1883-4, was the finest the practice built, still very much in the tradition of his father's bank and insurance buildings but with subtly updated details. Its style was reproduced in a simplified form for some provincial branches but his relatively few urban buildings of the 1880s tended to be more free Renaissance or Jacobean. For the Caledonian Station, 1890, a number of very French Beaux-Arts schemes were produced, the variety of draughtsmanship suggesting that outside help may have been brought in. Some of the details suggest the hand of George Washington Browne even if the arched forms were reminiscent of the St Enoch Station proposals of thirty-five years earlier. In the smaller domestic commissions 'Old English' half-timbered gables were adopted from the mid-1880s and at Redholme, North Berwick, 1889, with which Browne's name has been linked, 'Queen Anne' was adopted, in red sandstone rather than red brick.
Kinnear's design role gradually declined after he became Colonel of the Midlothian Coast Artillery Volunteers on 29 June 1884. But as soon as Peddie died he sought admission as FRIBA, his proposers being John Burnet Senior and two eminent Londoners, Professor T Roger Smith and his partner Charles Forster Hayward. He was admitted on 8 June 1891, and in the following year the Royal Scottish Academy elected him associate, an honour which 'at the time considerably astonished him and which it is doubtful if he ever fully appreciated'. He did not live to become an Academician, dying suddenly of heart failure after a normal day at the office on 5 November 1894.
John More Dick Peddie continued the practice alone for a time before taking George Washington Browne (born 1853) into partnership in late 1895 or early 1896.
(See separate entries on Peddie & Washington Browne and on the individual partners for later practice history.) |
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 |
| 1879 | 1-37 Drumsheugh Gardens | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Revised Lessels's elevations; designs executed by builders John Watherston & Sons |
| 1879 | 30, 32, 34 Palmerston Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1879 | Callander Hydropathic | Callander | | Perthshire | Scotland | With Francis Mackison & Son |
| 1879 | Chalmers Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Completion of street |
| 1879 | Lochgilphead District Asylum for the Insane | Lochgilphead | | Argyll | Scotland | Addition of West House, East House and Firgrove (villa) |
| 1879 | Longmore Hospital for Incurables | Newington | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1879 | Scottish Amicable and Scottish American Trust buildings | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1879 | St John's Episcopal Church | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Addition of chancel and north porch |
| 1880 | 41-42 Princes Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations? |
| 1880 | 94 George Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1880 | House at 10 Salisbury Road | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1880 | Kinloch House | Collessie | | Fife | Scotland | Remodelling and rebuilding - second phase |
| 1880 | Langlands House and Stables | Kirkcudbright | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | Unclear if this is a new build or alterations |
| 1880 | Langlands with East Langlands Lodge | Hawick | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | East Lodge - attribution of this because of plans in Dick Peddie & McKay Collection in HES. Work on main house and other work on the estate dated 1880 |
| 1880 | New Edinburgh Theatre | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1880 | Premises for British Public House Company | Leith | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1880 | Shop at 133 Princes Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1880 | Shops and Tenements at 503-509 St Vincent Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations to ground floor shops |
| 1880 | Veitch's Hotel, 120-124 George Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Reconstruction as shops and offices |
| c. 1880 | Dryfesdale Parish Church | Lockerbie | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Alterations to first church |
| c. 1880 | Shop at 63 Princes Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1881 | 13 Hill Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1881 | Bank of Scotland, New Town Branch | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1881 | Canaan House, gate lodge | | | Edinburgh? | Scotland | |
| 1881 | Cavers House | Hawick | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Remodelling |
| 1881 | Edinburgh Life Assurance Company Building | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1881 | Isle Cottage | Dumfries | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | |
| 1881 | Kirkcaldy Old Parish Church Manse | Kirkcaldy | | Fife | Scotland | Repairs and alterations - Kinnear responsible |
| 1881 | Kirkintilloch Church and Manse | Kirkintilloch | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |
| 1881 | St Cuthbert's Public School | Gorgie | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Addition |
| 1881 | Sunbury Stables | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1882 | Arnot House | | | Fife/Kinross-shire | Scotland | |
| 1882 | Bank of Scotland | Kirkcudbright | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1882 | Block A, 2-8 Cockburn Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1882 | Isle Tower | | | Wigtownshire | Scotland | Reconstruction of tower house and 18th-century house |
| 1882 | Keith Marischal House and lodges | | | East Lothian | Scotland | Reconstruction and additions |
| 1882 | Kirkcudbright Railway Station | Kirkcudbright | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | |
| 1882 | North Cliff House | North Queensferry | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1883 | Abington House | | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Reconstruction |
| 1883 | Bank of Scotland Headquarters, The Mound | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Modification of cupola of dome |
| 1883 | Free High Church and Free Church College | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1883 | House at Craiglockhart for Robert Brownlee | Craiglockhart | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1883 | Houses at North Berwick for Dalziel | North Berwick | | East Lothian | Scotland | |
| 1883 | Milton House | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Addition of attics |
| 1883 | Newington Cemetery | Newington | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Additions to gate lodge |
| 1883 | North Trinity House | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Extensive alterations |
| 1883 | St Ninian's | Moffat | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | |
| 1883 | The Lodge | North Berwick | | East Lothian | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1883 | Villa at Moffat for Mr Deane | Moffat | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | |
| 1884 | Airds of Parton House and stables | Loch Ken | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | |
| 1884 | Cortachy Castle | Kirriemuir | | Angus | Scotland | Rebuilding after fire |
| 1884 | Glenlair | Parton | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | Reconstruction and additions |
| 1884 | House for William Ivory on Whitehouse Terrace | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1884 | Lochmaddy Inn | Lochmaddy | | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Additions |
| 1884 | Mosswater Cottages | | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1884 | Newton House | | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Reconstruction of existing house as neo Tudor 'Old English'/ Arts & Crafts house |
| 1884 | Pitreavie Castle | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | Remodelling and additions: several preliminary schemes; much reduced executed scheme |
| 1884 | Sandgate Street and Foul Ford | Berwick-upon-Tweed | | Northumberland | England | |
| 1884 | Sun Fire Life Assurance Building | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1884 | Villa for Mr Vallance | | | | Scotland | |
| 1885 | 5 Eton Terrace | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1885 | Aberlour House | Aberlour | | Banffshire | Scotland | Alterations including terrace in front of house |
| 1885 | British Linen Bank | Carluke | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Alterations? |
| 1885 | British Linen Bank | Kelso | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1885 | Edinburgh Castle, Parliament Hall | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Competition design for restoration exhibited |
| 1885 | Pitreavie Castle, stables | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1885 | Religious Tract and Book Society Building | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Reconstruction with new façade and shop |
| 1885 | Sunderland Hall | Selkirk | | Selkirkshire | Scotland | Additions |
| 1885 | Tenement with Royal Bank building below | Campbeltown | | Argyll | Scotland | |
| 1885 | Torquhan House | Stow | | Midlothian | Scotland | Further alterations |
| 1885 | Villa for A J C Dowding | Moffat | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | |
| 1885 | Villa, 6 Ravelston Park | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1886 | Dirgarve | Aberfeldy | | Perthshire | Scotland | |
| 1886 | Donavourd House | Pitlochry | | Perthshire | Scotland | Further reconstruction |
| 1886 | Monymusk House | | | Aberdeenshire | Scotland | Library wing added and restoration of fireplace in hall |
| 1886 | Pitreavie Castle, gate lodge | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1886 | Slogarie House and Slogarie Cottages | Kirkcudbright | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | |
| 1886 | St Mary's Church | Haddington | | East Lothian | Scotland | Scheme for restoration |
| 1887 | British Linen Bank | Kirkcaldy | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1887 | British Linen Bank | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1887 | British Linen Bank | Dumfries | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1887 | Craiglockhart Feuing Plan, entire Estate | Craiglockhart | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1887 | Drygrange House | Melrose | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | First scheme and executed scheme (also stables and steading, factor's house and house to north of steading) |
| 1887 | Four Houses for William Deans on Morningside Drive | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1887 | House and Shop at Gilmerton | Gilmerton | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1887 | Kinglassie Parish Church | Kinglassie | | Fife | Scotland | Reconstruction: taken over by Hislop |
| 1887 | Lochmaddy Long Island Combination Poorhouse | Lochmaddy | North Uist | Inverness-shire | Scotland | |
| 1887 | Netherhall | | | | Scotland | Unclear if alterations or new build |
| 1887 | Tenement with shops, 44 and 46-48 Bernard Street | Leith | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1887 | Thirlestane Castle | Lauder | | Berwickshire | Scotland | Burial vault |
| 1888 | 126 Princes Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Extension/reconstruction |
| 1888 | British Linen Bank | Clydebank | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |
| 1888 | Cockpen Parish Church | Cockpen | | Midlothian | Scotland | Organ case and new pews |
| 1888 | Fife and Kinross District Asylum | Springfield, Cupar | | Fife | Scotland | Additions |
| 1888 | Midlothian County Artillery Volunteers Property Drill Hall & adjoining tenement | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations and new wing at back |
| 1888 | Southwick House | Caulkerbush | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | New stables |
| 1888 | Southwick Postman's House | Caulkerbush | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | |
| 1889 | Cardoness House | Kirkcudbright | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | Major reconstruction and additions |
| 1889 | Drygrange, South Lodge | Melrose | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | |
| 1889 | Dumfries and Galloway Club | Dumfries | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1889 | Ettrickshaws House | Selkirk | | Selkirkshire | Scotland | |
| 1889 | Glasclune House | North Berwick | | East Lothian | Scotland | Browne responsible for design |
| 1889 | Kirkennan House | Kirkcudbright | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | |
| 1889 | Palace Hotel | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Conversion of Palace Hotel to Liberal Club |
| 1889 | Southwick Parish Church | Caulkerbush | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | |
| 1889 | Terraughtie House | Troqueer | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Alterations - perhaps not executed? |
| 1890 | 7 George Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1890 | Balgowan Cottages | | | | Scotland | |
| 1890 | Blythswoodholm Hotel | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Conversion to offices (Central Chambers) |
| 1890 | British Linen Bank | Kilmarnock | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |
| 1890 | Caledonian Railway Station | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1890 | Caputh Fountain | Caputh | | Perthshire | Scotland | |
| 1890 | Corstorphine Parish Church | Corstorphine | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Proposals for restoration - not built - commission went to George Henderson |
| 1890 | Damcroft Mills | Peebles | | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Minor work |
| 1890 | Dolphinton House and lodge | | | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Proposed gate lodge |
| 1890 | Hollywood | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1890 | House for Major Isaacson | North Berwick | | East Lothian | Scotland | |
| 1890 | House for Mr Balfour | North Berwick | | East Lothian | Scotland | |
| 1890(?) | Luce House | | | | Scotland | |
| 1890 | Mission Hall | Ellon | | Aberdeenshire | Scotland | |
| 1890 | North Berwick Golf Clubhouse | North Berwick | | East Lothian | Scotland | |
| c. 1890 | 7 Glencairn Crescent | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| c. 1890 | School | Niddrie Mains | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| c. 1890 | Villa for Mr Stewart | North Berwick | | East Lothian | Scotland | |
| 1891 | Balmaghie Parish Church | Balmaghie | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | Extension of north aisle, porch and vestry added and internal alterations |
| 1891 | British Linen Bank | Greenock | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
| 1891 | British Linen Bank | Coldstream | | Berwickshire | Scotland | |
| 1891 | Canty Bay Inn | | | East Lothian | Scotland | Alterations? |
| 1891 | Compstown House (or Cumstoun House) | Twynholm | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | Large addition |
| 1891 | Corstorphine Convalescent Home | Corstorphine | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Enlargement |
| 1891 | Fife and Kinross District Asylum | Springfield, Cupar | | Fife | Scotland | Further additions |
| 1891 | Isle Tower | | | Wigtownshire | Scotland | Neo-Jacobean woodwork |
| 1891 | Kirkwood House | Lockerbie | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Minor alterations |
| 1891 | Longmore Hospital for Incurables | Newington | | Edinburgh | Scotland | E wing with bay window to S elevation, rear extension and small addition at W. (HS list gives date as 1886-1891, though drawings dated 1891) |
| 1891 | Marlefield | | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Rebuilding after fire |
| 1891 | Mission Hall, Denhead | Kirkton of Logie-Buchan | | Aberdeenshire | Scotland | |
| 1891 | Orwell Manse | Orwell | | Kinross-shire | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1891 | St Paul's Episcopal Church | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Removal of galleries, addition of chancel |
| 1892 | 22 Queen Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1892 | 33 Moray Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1892 | 7-8 Moray Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations to no 7 |
| 1892 | Advocates' Library | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Proposed new building linking to George IV Bridge - preliminary and three subsequent schemes, not carried out |
| 1892 | Duthil Manse | Duthil | | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1892 | Peebles Courthouse and Prison | Peebles | | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1892 | Redholm | North Berwick | | East Lothian | Scotland | House |
| 1892 | Royal Bank of Scotland | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | New ground floor for Royal Bank |
| 1893 | 143-146 Princes Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Rebuilding of interior and modification of dome |
| 1893 | British Linen Bank | Alexandria | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |
| 1893 | Dalton Parish Church | Dalton | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | |
| 1893 | Donavourd House | Pitlochry | | Perthshire | Scotland | Stables |
| 1893 | House for Mr Shaw-Stewart | North Berwick | | East Lothian | Scotland | Designs for chimneypieces |
| 1893 | Kirkdale House | Carsluith | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | Rebuilding after fire |
| 1893 | Windygates House | North Berwick | | East Lothian | Scotland | |
| 1894 | 25 Moray Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Internal alterations |
| 1894 | 44 Drumsheugh Gardens | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1894 | Buddon Camp, officers' mess | | | Angus | Scotland | |
| 1894 | Caledonian United Services Club | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Internal alterations |
| 1894 | The White House for Major General Ralston | North Berwick | | East Lothian | Scotland | |
| 1894 | Westerton House | Bridge of Allan | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1895 | 52 Minto Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1895 | Blenheim House | North Berwick | | East Lothian | Scotland | Addition of bedrooms |
| 1896(?) | Biggar Parish School | Biggar | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | |