Larger versions of these images are located at the foot of the page. Basic Biographical Details Name: | John Dick Peddie | Designation: | Architect | Born: | 24 February 1824 | Died: | 12 March 1891 | Bio Notes: | John Dick Peddie and his twin brother William were born in Edinburgh on 24 February 1824, the second and third sons of James Peddie WS and his wife Margaret Dick. Both the Peddies and the Dicks were prominent families within the United Associate Synod which became the United Presbyterian Church in 1848, Peddie's grandfather the Rev Dr James Peddie of Bristo Church, Edinburgh having been Moderator of the Burgher Synod from 1789. He presided over the split between the Rev Dr John Brown's 'Old Light' Burghers and his own 'New Light' Burghers in 1799. The Rev Dr James Peddie married twice, his first marriage being to Margaret Coventry, which brought a link by marriage with the civil and railway engineers Benjamin Hall Blyth and Edward Lawrence Blyth which was to be important later. His second marriage to Barbara Smith, daughter of Lord Provost Donald Smith of the private bank Donald Smith & Company, brought a significant range of business connections.
Like his twin brother William, John Dick Peddie was originally intended for a legal career, their eldest brother James having become a civil engineer. John and William attended Edinburgh University from 1839 but in 1842 their careers diverged when John was allowed to become an architect and was articled to David Rhind. While there he entered the competition for the National Bank buildings in Queen Street, Glasgow, in 1844 and, although he probably did not know it at the time, his design reached the final selection, that ultimately chosen being by Charles Barry's assistant John Gibson. In 1845 he established his own independent practice at his father's house at 36 Albany Street and was successful at once, deservedly winning the competition for the Synod Hall (although the influence of his father and his uncle by marriage Professor the Rev Dr James Harper must have helped) and that for the proposed Gilmorehill Cemetery in Glasgow which was not built.
In 1848 Peddie moved his practice to 1 George Street, the office of his uncle, Donald Smith Peddie, a chartered accountant, and from there he won the first of several poorhouse competitions, that for South Leith, and was involved in the design of the Caledonian Station through his Blyth cousins, then senior assistants with Grainger & Miller, probably following the railway's dispute with Sir William Tite over non-payment of fees.
In 1849 the Peddie family bought Lauriston Park, commencing Peddie's long-running involvement with Chalmers Street and Chalmers Hospital, and in the same year he made a feuing plan for Laverock Bank, where his grandmother and his uncle Donald Smith Peddie had their house, an area he was to develop speculatively for villas. He then seems to have taken a short career break, leaving an assistant, David Jamieson, in charge of the office: in the autumn of 1850, or just possibly rather earlier, c.1844-45, he made an extensive continental tour which embraced Constantinople, Prague, Munich and Regensburg. His visits there were mentioned in his lecture 'On the Architectural Features of Edinburgh' given on 12 February 1851 to the Architectural Institute of Scotland of which he had been one of the founder members in 1850. This tour brought about a lifelong interest in contemporary German architecture and theology which was to lead to his sons being educated at Elberfeld.
On 21 July 1851 Peddie married Euphemia Lockhart More, the daughter of James Stephen More and a descendant of the Rev George More of South Shields, co-founder with the Rev Dr James Peddie of the Friendly Society of Dissenting Ministers, a pension fund which helped finance some of Peddie's early property investments. They set up house and office at 10 Nelson Street, which was rented. Through his father-in-law Peddie secured the business of the Royal Bank of Scotland which established a branch network between 1854 and 1857, nearly all of the buildings being designed by Peddie. All were built in a stylish eye-catching palazzo form, and monogrammed, bringing the practice a nationwide reputation. It became UK-wide when he added a new telling room to the head office in 1857, a project reported and illustrated in 'The Builder' on 21 May 1859.
Concurrently with these developments at the Royal Bank Peddie and his civil engineer brother James promoted the Edinburgh High Street and Railway Access Company's proposals for the formation of Cockburn Street, first mooted in 1851, and made more feasible by the Limited Liability Act of 1855. For this the Improvement Act of 1827 had set the precedent of 'Old Scots or Flemish' for Old Town developments. That and over-commitment on Royal Bank business induced him to take a partner skilled in 'Old Scots' who also had some capital to inject into the rapidly expanding practice.
Peddie's choice fell on Charles George Hood Kinnear, born at Kinloch, Fife on 30 May 1830, the second son of Charles Kinnear of Kinnear and Kinloch and a member of the banking family Thomas Kinnear & Company. His mother was Christian Jane Greenshields, only child of the wealthy Edinburgh advocate John Boyd Greenshields who had married Jane Boyd, heiress to the small Dunbartonshire estate of Drum and adopted her name as an additional surname. Charles Kinnear was educated privately with his elder brother, the London advocate, politician and radical journalist John Boyd Kinnear whom he followed to Edinburgh University prior to being articled to David Bryce, than of Burn & Bryce in 1849; his home address was then his Greenshields grandmother's house at 125 Princes Street. Peddie appears to have recruited him on a part-time basis late in 1853 or early in 1854 when his handwriting appears on the detail sheets for the Sir Michael Street Church in Greenock, but by that date he was already undertaking study tours, sketches still in the possession of the family showing that he was in Palermo on 9 March 1853 and Pisa on 13 December 1854. Shortly after returning home from the second tour he set up his own household at 17 Alva Street and commenced an independent practice which seems to have consisted only of improvements on the Kinnear and Kinloch estates. After less than two years as Peddie's assistant he was made a partner, apparently on 1 January 1856 although his RIBA nomination form gives 1855, probably the date of the partnership agreement. Thereafter Kinnear appears to have taken charge of the drawing office, Burn & Bryce drawing office methods being consistently adopted with nearly all the drawings signed in Kinnear's handwriting.
By the time the partnership had been formed, Kinnear had become deeply interested in photography, perhaps through his former master David Bryce, who was also a pioneer photographer. Together with the architect David MacGibbon and Sir David Brewster, Bryce and Kinnear co-founded the Photographic Society of Scotland in 1856, Brewster being president and Kinnear secretary. In the same year Kinnear made a photographic study tour which embraced Milan; and in the following year, 1857, he invented the first bellows camera, which was made for him by a Mr Bell of Potterrow. He took it on a study tour of northern France, followed by another in Germany.
Kinnear was able to make these study tours through inheritance. When he came of age in 1852 he fell heir to a large number of Edinburgh properties from his Greenshields grandfather, and on the death of his grandmother in 1856 he also came into full possession of 125 Princes Street and the estate of Drum. One of these houses, 12 Howe Street, provided the larger premises the partnership required. Family connections were reinforced by volunteer connections from 1859 onwards when he joined the First Midlothian County (Midlothian Coast) Artillery Volunteer Brigade. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in July 1860 and quickly rose to become captain of the Portobello battery, then second major, and as senior major one of the three officers who financed the building of the regimental headquarters in Grindlay Street in 1866.
From the very beginning the partnership was hugely successful as commissions for major public buildings and churches flowed in: Dublin Street Baptist Church in Edinburgh in 1856; the Scottish Provident Institute in Edinburgh, where Donald Smith Peddie was on the board, in 1858; Morrison's Academy in Crieff in 1859; and Morgan's Hospital in Dundee in 1860. They also had considerable success in competitions, winning that for Sydney Place UP Church in Glasgow in 1857 and coming second for the Wallace Monument and St Mary's Free Church, Edinburgh in 1858, the design for the latter being realised at Pilrig Free Church in the same city in 1860. In the following year, 1861, they won that for Aberdeen Sheriff Court, which grew into the much larger municipal buildings project in the following year. The single major disappointment was the reconstruction and enlargement of the Bank of Scotland Head Office in Edinburgh, commissioned by the Treasurer Alexander Blair in the autumn of 1859 but retrieved by David Bryce from his successors after Kinnear was instructed to seek his opinion on their designs. Peddie & Kinnear were, however, given all of the bank's provincial branch business, and after initially building some relatively simple Italianate structures, Kinnear followed David MacGibbon's lead in adopting a Scots vernacular idiom as the bank's house style for new construction. This greatly increased volume of business required a larger office, 3 South Charlotte Street being bought for the purpose in 1866. It also led to a marked increase in Peddie's social standing, expressed first in a large terrace house at 21 Claremont Crescent, built in 1860 and then in a much grander one at 33 Buckingham Terrace, built along with number 34 in 1866. Not long thereafter he also rented from the Countess of Seafield the estate of Muckrach in Inverness-shire, primarily for the fishing. Election as ARSA followed in 1868, and full academician and treasurer only two years later. The Academy was to become a showcase for his ambitious proposals for Princes Street, an interest which seems to have stemmed from his North British Station and Waverley Market competition designs of 1866 and the unbuilt Caledonian Hotel scheme of 1868, the biggest disappointment of Peddie's career.
To keep their office continuously employed, Peddie & Kinnear began building speculatively in Edinburgh from the mid-1860s, taking over the Grosvenor Crescent section of Robert Matheson's West Coates development and extending it into Palmerston Place. This sold well and with a relative dearth of commissions for public buildings, now increasingly determined by open competition, the partners set about creating new business through property, hydropathic and hotel companies in which they and a select circle of business associates were the major shareholders, a tactic made less hazardous by the Limited Liability Act of 1855 and the Companies Act of 1862. The first of these were the Heritable Securities Association and the Scottish Lands and Buildings Company, founded in 1862 and 1864 respectively, followed by the Craiglockhart Estates Company in 1873 and a number of smaller companies. Nearly all of these were managed by the Edinburgh chartered accountant Alexander Thomas Niven. Their authorised capital was not fully paid up, the balance being met by advertising for funds on deposit at interest rates of 3 ½ to 4 ½ %. Initially these companies were primarily concerned with housing developments, but when the Caledonian Railway moved the site of its proposed Central Station to the eastern side of Hope Street, the Blythswoodholm Building Company, backed by the Scottish Lands and Buildings Company, took over the original site on the west side for a major hotel and shopping arcade development. In this project Peddie realised some of the ideas in the unbuilt schemes for St Enoch Station in Glasgow and the North British and Caledonian Hotels in Edinburgh, but with Alexander Thomson-based elevations. By 1877 the Scottish Lands and Buildings Company had become overstretched as costs escalated and disposed of its interest to the Scottish Heritable Securities Company. Further capital was raised but in 1878 the City of Glasgow Bank crashed. This provoked a prolonged recession and in 1879 the Caledonian Railway decided to convert its offices into an hotel, bringing about the liquidation of the Blythswood Building Company and of the Scottish Heritable Securities Company in 1882 when a £70,000 bond was called in. Kinnear's Scottish Lands and Buildings Company also went into liquidation, but it was a voluntary one and it somehow managed to remain solvent. Peddie & Kinnear's other property companies fared no better as a result of the recession and the withdrawal of loan capital: calls for capital from companies which no longer had a value were to plague both partners to the end of their lives.
The partners similarly incurred heavy losses in their two large hydropathic developments: Dunblane, where the company was formed in 1874, and Craiglockhart, a by-product of the Craiglockhart Estates Company, formed in 1877. At Callander, where they acted as consultants to the Stirling architect and civil engineer Francis Mackison in 1878-80, they were careful to avoid subscribing any capital. All three hydropathics failed in 1884 and were sold to hoteliers: the only one to survive was Shandon where the capital cost had been kept low by buying the existing mansion by John Thomas Rochead for a fraction of its original cost.
In 1878 the Peddie & Kinnear practice briefly became Peddie, Kinnear & Peddie with the return to the office of John More Dick Peddie. Born in Edinburgh on 21 August 1853 and educated at the Edinburgh Academy from 1864 to 1868 followed by two years at the Real Schule Elberfeld, he entered the science faculty at Edinburgh University in 1870 while on a short articled apprenticeship with his father. He then obtained a place in the office of George Gilbert Scott, returning to the office in 1875 as an assistant after a grand tour which took him as far south as Sicily. After his return the practice's church work took on an English Gothic rather than the continental Romanesque which had characterised his father's. When John More Dick Peddie became a partner the practice was also joined by Peddie's fifth son Walter Lockhart Dick Peddie, born in Edinburgh on 7 November 1865 and educated at Fettes College. He may have been less academically minded than Peddie's other sons: he did not go to Elberfeld and of all Peddie's sons he was the only one not to go to university, signing drawings at the early age of fourteen.
In 1879 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 son, and retained his membership by exhibiting old projects. Although it has been stated that he retired to enter politics, it was at least as much to repair the family fortunes and provide 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'. He had had 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. Preparations for Peddie's change of career appear to have been made for more than a decade as he had been building up directorships since at least the mid-1860s, and in May 1875 he bought Veitch's Hotel at 122 George Street, Edinburgh in partnership with the solicitor William John Menzies, converting it into shops and offices to provide a steady income stream from rents. To achieve this they borrowed £12,000 from the Earl of Moray and £5,000 from the vendors, but after a very few years these bonds became a problem and after some re-mortgaging Peddie bought out Menzies's interest in 1884. Although several architectural practices took chambers in this building it is doubtful if it ever produced much of a net income after servicing the bonds.
Peddie secured the Liberal nomination for Kilmarnock burghs in 1878 and won the seat on the Disestablishment issue on 8 April 1880 despite the splitting of the vote by an unofficial pro-Establishment Liberal candidate. At Westminster he represented the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings' interests as well as the Disestablishment interest. On the first day of each parliamentary session he gave notice of his intention to introduce a resolution to implement disestablishment. Although initially unsuccessful he hired halls in every sizeable town in Scotland to whip up interest and on 23 June 1884 he eventually won a place in the ballot and exchanged his resolution for a private members' bill introduced on 24 October 1884.
The bill never came to a vote. Peddie's business interests had taken him on a voyage round the world. It must have been a welcome absence. The reputation and financial circumstances of the entire Peddie family had been compromised by Peddie's chartered accountant uncle Donald Smith Peddie and making money had become even more important than it had been. As a result of the divorce action by one of his clients his uncle had fled to the USA in November 1882 and was found to have liabilities of £75,000 and realisable assets of £4,565, chiefly represented by the house 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.
Peddie's interest in overseas investment dated back to at least 1873. Together with Sir George Warrender, Edward Blyth, Thomas Nelson and others he was a founder of the Scottish American Trust of which James A Roosevelt was one of the American directors. Peddie's remit was to advise on property investment and Blyth's on railroads, and following the Trust's decision not to hold property directly, the Peddies formed the Scottish American Land Company in 1880, Peddie's third son William, born 27 March 1859, being sent out to Emmetsburg in 1883 to assist Alexander Peddie, who was an uncle already resident in Iowa. Peddie's other American interests included the United States Mortgage Company of Scotland and after he became an MP he bought a large shareholding in James L Lombard's American and General Mortgage and Investment Corporation Ltd, of which he became a director. Along with other members of the family he subscribed to the formation of the Scottish and New Zealand Company in 1877 and to the Colonial and Investment Company of New Zealand: he was a director of both of these and for a time chairman of one of them.
Peddie and his wife set off for Australia and New Zealand in the autumn of 1885 to inspect these operations, but a crisis of confidence amongst the American and Canadian shareholders led him to cut short his visit to Australasia and sail for the United States. Somewhere on the voyage Euphemia died and her body was brought home for burial in Dean Cemetery on 31 December. Early in the New Year he returned to Australia, in March he met Lombard to look at the operations in Kansas, and in April he returned home to report to his several boards.
Peddie's parliamentary seat was lost in his absence because of the split Liberal vote in November 1885. The Conservatives won by 293 votes and despite a request from Gladstone to stand again in July 1886 he declined: in his son Coventry's words, he had 'not the wherewithal' as a result of heavy borrowing to finance his New Worlds investments. The zenith of his business career came in July 1887 when he became first chairman of the hugely successful Scottish Investment Trust formed by his solicitor brother's firm Peddie & Ivory. But two years later he took one final gamble by investing in Pollok Patents and two related companies, the Grass Valley Gold Company in the USA and the Australian Gold Extracting Company, all three of which were linked to Peddie & Ivory's Scottish Investment Trust and Second Scottish Investment Trust. These briefly brought him a very large income in director's fees but the processes on which these companies were based proved uneconomic. He did not live to see their collapse in 1892-94 as he had become seriously ill in 1890 and had to resign all his directorships. An operation was carried out early in 1891 but he died on 12 March, 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 property interests is difficult to guess.
(See separate entry on Kinnear & Peddie for the continued history of the practice after Peddie's withdrawal.) | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this architect: | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes |  | 36, Albany Street, Edinburgh, Scotland | Business | 1845 | 1848 | |  | 1, George Street, Edinburgh, Scotland | Business | 1848 | 1856(?) | |  | 12, Howe Street, Edinburgh, Scotland | Business | 1856 | 1866 | |  | 21, Claremont Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private | 1860 | | |  | 33, Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private | 1866 | | |  | 3, South Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, Scotland | Business | 1866 | 1879 | |
Employment and TrainingEmployersThe following individuals or organisations employed or trained this architect (click on an item to view details): | | Name | Date from | Date to | Position | Notes |  | David Rhind | 1842 | 1845 | Apprentice | |  | Peddie & Kinnear | 1 January 1856 | 1878 | Partner | |  | Peddie, Kinnear & Peddie | 1878 | 1879 | Partner | |
Employees or Pupils* earliest date known from documented sources.
Buildings and DesignsThis architect 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 |  | 1843 | Catholic Apostolic Church | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Attribution |  | 1844 | National Bank of Scotland and Square of Business Chambers | Shawlands | | Glasgow | Scotland | Competition design - reached final selection but did not win |  | 1844 or 1845 | Terrace of houses, Airlie Place | | | Dundee | Scotland | Took over development of estate for housing from William Scott - southern part only built, east side 1853 for David Baxter |  | 1845 | Glasgow Western Cemetery | Hillhead | | Glasgow | Scotland | Competition design for gates, lodges and catacombs - not built |  | 1845 | UP Synod Hall | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Won competition and secured job |  | 1845 | Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh Granton railway bridge | Warriston | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 15 August 1845 | Glasgow Western Cemetery | Hillhead | | Glasgow | Scotland | Revised competition design for gates and lodge - not built |  | 1846 | Warriston Cemetery, James Peddie Monument | Warriston | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1848 | Boston UP Church | Cupar | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1848 | Caledonian Railway Station | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Shortened scheme not built |  | 1848 | Gilmore Hill Estate housing layout | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Competition design - not successful |  | 1848 | South Leith Poorhouse | Leith | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1849 | Laverockbank Terrace development | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Feuing plan and design of new terrace |  | 1849 | Prestonville Cottage | Corstorphine | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1849 | Royal Arch, Dundee Docks | | | Dundee | Scotland | Competition design - unplaced |  | 1849 | Terrace of houses, Airlie Place | | | Dundee | Scotland | Various plans and elevations for development of the street. |  | c. 1849 | Caledonian Railway Station | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Further simplified scheme built |  | 1850 | Anstruther UP Church | Anstruther | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1850 | Ford UP Church | Ford | | Midlothian | Scotland | |  | 1850 | Mayville | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | New wing, executed but without belvedere originally planned |  | 1850 | Tor House | Murrayfield | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1850 | Torquhan House | Stow | | Midlothian | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1851 | Cockburn Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | First proposals |  | 1851 | Elmbank (Elibank) | Corstorphine | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1851 | Montrose UP Church | Montrose | | Angus | Scotland | |  | 1851 | Richmond house | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1851 | Somervail School | West Linton | | Peeblesshire | Scotland | |  | 1851 or 1857 | Somervail Schoolhouse | West Linton | | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Reconstruction - almost wholly new |  | 1852 | Hawkhill | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1852 | Sir Michael Street UP Church | Greenock | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |  | 1853 | Cauvin's Hospital, entrance lodge | Duddingston | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1853 | Inveresk Union Poorhouse | Inveresk | | Midlothian | Scotland | |  | 1853 | Kinaldy House | Dunino | | Fife | Scotland | Large addition |  | 1853 | Lomond House | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1853 | Peebles Union Poorhouse | Peebles | | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Several schemes drawn up - not built |  | 1853 | Property for Macfie | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1853 | Proposed Buildings on Market Street for Bank of Scotland | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1853 | Rivalsgreen | Linlithgow | | West Lothian | Scotland | Extensive alterations and additions |  | 1853 | South Leith School | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1853 | Thornliebank UP Company Church | Thornliebank | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |  | c. 1853 | House in Lennox Road | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1854 | Chalmers Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Three schemes drawn up |  | 1854 | Colonial Life Assurance Co | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Addition of porch |  | 1854 | Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank | Stirling | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | |  | 1854 | Kirkintilloch UP Church | Kirkintilloch | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |  | 1854 | Pollok Street UP Church | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Original buildilng |  | 1854 | Unidentified Premises for Clapperton & Co | | | | Scotland | |  | 1855 | Chalmers Hospital | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1855 | Findlater Lodge | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1855 | Howgate UP Church | Howgate | | Midlothian | Scotland | |  | 1855 | Laurel Bank | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1855 | Life Association of Scotland, Head Office and Bedford Hotel | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Proposed several schemes in conjunction with David Rhind, the architect for the project |  | 1855 | Stirling Combination Poorhouse and Lunatic Asylum | Stirling | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | |  | 1855 | Sunnyside Cottages | | | East Lothian | Scotland | |  | 1855 | Sunnyside Farmhouse | Prestonkirk | | East Lothian | Scotland | |  | 1855 | Sunnyside House | Montrose | | Angus | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1855 | Sunnyside Steading | Prestonkirk | | East Lothian | Scotland | |  | 1856 | Dublin Street Baptist Church | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1856 | Feuing of Sir James Colquhoun of Luss's property | Helensburgh | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |  | 1856 | Houses on Argyle Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1856 | Kippielaw Cottages | Kippilaw, St Boswells | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | |  | 1856 | Latterpin Farmhouse | | | | Scotland | |  | 1856 | Property for Mrs Mein at 20 John Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1856 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Dumfries | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | |  | 1856 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | 1856 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Hawick | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | |  | 1856 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Girvan | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | 1856 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Maybole | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | 1856 | Sydney Place UP Church | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Won competition to secure job |  | 1857 | 6, 7 Laverockbank Terrace | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1857 | Hartwoodhill House | Hartwoodhill | | Lanarkshire/Midlothian? | Scotland | |  | 1857 | Overhailes Cottages | | | East Lothian | Scotland | |  | 1857 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Kilmarnock | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | 1857 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Irvine | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | 1857 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Duns | | Berwickshire | Scotland | |  | 1857 | Royal Bank of Scotland Headquarters | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | New atrium and telling room |  | 1857 | Tor Aluin | Dunoon | | Argyll | Scotland | |  | 1857 | Valley Cemetery | Stirling | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | With William Drummond, seedsman and landscape gardener |  | c. 1857 | Bedford House | Alloa | | Clackmannanshire | Scotland | |  | 1858 | 120-134 Trinity Road | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1858 | Bank of Scotland Headquarters, The Mound | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Schemes for remodelling Reid & Crichton building. Bryce commissioned |  | 1858 | Buildings in Warriston Close | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1858 | Glengorm House | Mishnish | Mull | Argyll | Scotland | |  | 1858 | House in Lennox Road | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Additions |  | 1858 | Iver Cottage | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1858 | Lismore Lodge | Dunoon | | Argyll | Scotland | Reconstruction |  | 1858 | Monument to John Purvis of Kinaldy, St Cuthbert's Churchyard | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1858 | North Leith UP Church | Leith | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1858 | Oxford Terrace | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Executed no 8 |  | 1858 | Portland Road UP Church | Kilmarnock | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | 1858 | Portree UP Church | Portree | Skye | Inverness-shire | Scotland | |  | 1858 | Rentons, 10-15 Princes Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | New frontage for Crown Hotel. Also later in the same year scheme for addition of attic storey to building. |  | 1858 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Arbroath | | Angus | Scotland | |  | 1858 | Scottish Provident Institution | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Three preliminary schemes and one executed scheme |  | 1858 | St Mary's Free Church and Manse | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Second place competition design |  | 1858 | St Mary's Mount | Peebles | | Peeblesshire | Scotland | |  | 1859 | Block A, 2-8 Cockburn Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1859 | Block D, 31-37 Cockburn Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1859 | Block E, 59-63 Cockburn Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1859 | Block F, 32-48 Cockburn Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1859 | Block H, 52-56 Cockburn Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1859 | Craigruie | Balquhidder | | Perthshire | Scotland | |  | 1859 | Erskine Church, Erskine Monument | Stirling | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Erskine Monument |  | 1859 | Galston UP Church | Galston | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | 1859 | Inverness District Asylum | Inverness | | Inverness-shire | Scotland | 5 alternative schemes for competition - not successful |  | 1859 | Kinloch House | Collessie | | Fife | Scotland | Remodelling and rebuilding |  | 1859 | Markland Farm Steading | | | | | |  | 1859 | Morrison's Academy | Crieff | | Perthshire | Scotland | |  | 1859 | North Trinity House | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1859 | Philp's Cockburn Hotel and other property, 1-29 Cockburn Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1859 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Drymen | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | |  | 1859 | Stenton | Dunkeld (near) | | Perthshire | Scotland | Large addition |  | 1859 | Wallace Monument | Abbey Craig | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Competition design - placed second |  | 1860 | 'Cottage' for Mr Craigie | | | | Scotland | |  | 1860 | 35 St Andrew Square | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Addition of bedroom block--now demolished |  | 1860 | 57 Dick Place | Grange | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1860 | Anstruther UP Manse | Anstruther | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1860 | Balavil House | Kingussie | | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Survey |  | 1860 | Bemersyde House | Bemersyde | | Berwickshire | Scotland | West wing extended, heightened and remodelled |  | 1860 | Block C, 18-24 Cockburn Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1860 | Block G, 50 Cockburn Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1860 | Block J, 65 Cockburn Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1860 | Block K, Mrs Middleton's Temperance Hotel, 10-16 Cockburn Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1860 | Busby House (for Crum) | | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Alterations and large addition |  | 1860 | Haddington District Asylum, ancillary building and North Lodge | Haddington | | East Lothian | Scotland | Produced working drawings with alternatives - in association with William Lambie Moffat |  | 1860 | Hermitage House | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1860 | Inveresk Union Poorhouse | Inveresk | | Midlothian | Scotland | |  | 1860 | Leith Corn Exchange | Leith | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Won in competition |  | 1860 | Lodge for D A Pearson | North Queensferry | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1860 | Morgan's Hospital | | | Dundee | Scotland | |  | 1860 | Pilrig Free Church | Pilrig | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1860 | Scotsman Building, 26-30 Cockburn Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1860 | Shop, 139 Princes Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | December 1860 | Lismore Lodge | Dunoon | | Argyll | Scotland | Further work |  | c. 1860 | 7-22 Claremont Crescent | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Elevations to William Burn's design |  | c. 1860 | Hallyburton House | Coupar Angus | | Angus | Scotland | Unbuilt designs |  | c. 1860 | Kinloch Estate, farm cottage to north of Kinloch Farm | Collessie | | Fife | Scotland | |  | c. 1860 | Milton House | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | c. 1860 | Phantassie Cottages | Prestonkirk | | East Lothian | Scotland | |  | c. 1860 | Trafalgar Farmhouse | Collessie | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1861 | 1, 2,3 Melville Crescent | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Elevation built to Robert Brown's design as modified by Lessels (Peddie & Kinnear designed part behind façade) |  | 1861 | 12 Charlotte Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Internal alterations |  | 1861 | 9, 10 Laverockbank Terrace | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1861 | Aldourie Castle | | | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Scheme for remodelling the west end of the house, alternatice proposals for the entrance tower on the south front, the Midmar-like tower to be remodelled to a Castle Fraser like form or given a candelsnuffer roof. |  | 1861 | Bank of Scotland | Greenock | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1861 | Brand's School and School House | Milnathort | | Kinross-shire | Scotland | |  | 1861 | Chester Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Design of buildings behind façade |  | 1861 | Glenforsa House | Gruline | Mull | Argyll | Scotland | |  | 1861 | Hartwoodhill House | Hartwoodhill | | Lanarkshire/Midlothian? | Scotland | Enlargement |  | 1861 | House at Portobello | Portobello | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1861 | Rivalsgreen | Linlithgow | | West Lothian | Scotland | Additions |  | 1861 | Starly Hall | Burntisland | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1861 | The Gows | Invergowrie | | Perthshire/Angus | Scotland | |  | 1861 | Tobermory Sheriff Court and Prison | Tobermory | Mull | Argyll | Scotland | |  | 1861 | Union Bank | Dunoon | | Argyll | Scotland | |  | 1862 | 15 Saxe Coburg Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Design of building behind James Milne's façade |  | 1862 | 19-20 Buckingham Terrace | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Elevation to John Chesser's designs - Peddie designed everything behind façade and perhaps had hand in elevation design |  | 1862 | 4 Doune Terrace | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations--by John Dick Peddie alone, not in name of firm |  | 1862 | Aberdeen Municipal Buildings and Tolbooth | | | Aberdeen | Scotland | Won in competition |  | 1862 | Ayton House, stables | | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1862 | Bank of Scotland | Stonehaven | | Kincardineshire | Scotland | |  | 1862 | Bank of Scotland | Dumfries | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Minor alterations (and survey) |  | 1862 | Lower Craig View Row and Prince Albert Buildings, Terraces of Tenements | Dumbiedykes | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1862 | Murrayshall | | | Perthshire | Scotland | New entrance, stair and tower |  | 1862 | Rivalsgreen | Linlithgow | | West Lothian | Scotland | Additions |  | 1862 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Stirling | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | |  | 1862 | Salen Inn | Salen | Mull | Argyll | Scotland | |  | 1862 | Scottish National Albert Memorial | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Competition design |  | 1862 | Warriston Cemetery | Warriston | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Extension to catacombs |  | c. 1862 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Stewarton | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | 1863 | 125 Princes Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Rebuilding |  | 1863 | 7, 8, 9 Melville Crescent | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1863 | Alloa West UP Church | Alloa | | Clackmannanshire | Scotland | Won in competition |  | 1863 | Bank of Scotland | Galashiels | | Selkirkshire | Scotland | |  | 1863 | Bank of Scotland | Castle Douglas | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | |  | 1863 | Braeside House | Cramond Bridge | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Addition |  | 1863 | Crawfordton | Moniaive | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | |  | 1863 | Fife and Kinross District Asylum | Springfield, Cupar | | Fife | Scotland | Built, including superintendent's house, lodge and gateway |  | 1863 | Hartwoodhill House | Hartwoodhill | | Lanarkshire/Midlothian? | Scotland | Stables |  | 1863 | Hope Park UP Church Manse | St Andrews | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1863 | North Richmond Street UP Church | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1863 | Prestonkirk Poorhouse | East Linton | | East Lothian | Scotland | |  | 1863 | Restalrig Park | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1863 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Brechin | | Angus | Scotland | |  | 1863 | St Andrews UP Church, Hope Park | St Andrews | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1864 | 13, 14 Laverockbank Terrace | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1864 | 23-25 Queen Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1864 | 60 Great King Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Internal alterations |  | 1864 | Adelaide Lodge | Anstruther | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1864 | Ayrshire Lunatic Asylum | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | Competition design |  | 1864 | Balavil House | Kingussie | | Inverness-shire | Scotland | West lodge |  | 1864 | Bristo UP Church | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Internal alterations |  | 1864 | Corstorphine Convalescent Home | Corstorphine | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1864 | Greenock Courthouse, Prison and Governor's House | Greenock | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |  | 1864 | Houses, 35-47 Manor Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | In consultation with John Lessels (but elevations probably to their own design) |  | 1864 | Kilmaurs UP Church | Kilmaurs | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | 1864 | Kingussie Manse | Kingussie | | Inverness-shire | Scotland | |  | 1864 | Kirkcudbright Railway Station | Kirkcudbright | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | |  | 1864 | Lathallan | Colinsburgh | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1864 | Monteath Mausoleum | Gersit Law, Ancrum | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | |  | 1864 | Peterhead Court House | Peterhead | | Aberdeenshire | Scotland | Two unbuilt schemes |  | 1864 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Portobello | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1864 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Montrose | | Angus | Scotland | |  | 1864 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Grantown-on-Spey | | Morayshire | Scotland | |  | 1864 | St Cuthbert's Churchyard, Monument to Sir James Gardiner Baird | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1864 | Tenement, Montgomery Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Elevation built to Playfair's design (two schemes drawn up - consent for first scheme departing from Playfair's design apparently refused) |  | 1864 | Torwoodlee House | Galashiels | | Selkirkshire | Scotland | Additions: new two-storey porch and extensive replanning of interior |  | 1864 | University Club | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1864 | University of Edinburgh College Hall | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Unbuilt design |  | 1864 | Villa for Mrs Scott | Hawick | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | |  | 1864 | Warriston Cemetery | Warriston | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Gate lodge (later demolished) |  | c. 1864 | Bank of Scotland | Kirkcudbright | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | |  | c. 1864 | St Enoch's Railway Station and Hotel and Office Block | | | Glasgow | Scotland | With John Fowler and James Fairlie Blair |  | 1865 | 13, 14 Moray Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1865 | 32-34 Buckingham Terrace | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Elevation to John Chesser's designs - Peddie designed everything behind façade amd perhaps had hand in elevation design |  | 1865 | 66, 67 Queen Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations and stables at rear |  | 1865 | Allan Park UP Church | Stirling | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | |  | 1865 | Bank of Scotland | Arbroath | | Angus | Scotland | |  | 1865 | Bank of Scotland | Annan | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1865 | Biggar United Presbyterian Church | Biggar | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | |  | 1865 | Bonnygate UP Church | Cupar | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1865 | Cockenzie School and Schoolhouse | Cockenzie | | East Lothian | Scotland | |  | 1865 | Dalry Girls Reformatory | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | additions |  | 1865 | Dysart UP Church, Normand Road | Dysart | | Fife | Scotland | Appear to have been approached initially for a statement of fees in case they should be commissioned, but no designs are known to have been produced |  | 1865 | Eildonside | Melrose | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Significant alterations |  | 1865 | House at Merchiston on feu lot | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1865 | House in Whitehouse Terrace | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1865 | Kinnettles | | | Angus | Scotland | Horse stables and lodge |  | 1865 | Melrose UP Church | Melrose | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | |  | 1865 | Musselburgh Golf Club | Musselburgh | | Midlothian | Scotland | |  | 1865 | Taypark | West Ferry | | Dundee | Scotland | |  | 1865 | The Binn | Inverkeithing | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1865 | Waverley Bridge and Station approach | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Drawings signed only by Peddie |  | 1865 | Windleston Hall, Chapel Tomb for Sir William Eden | | | County Durham | England | |  | c. 1865 | Newtonaird | Dumfries | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Original house |  | 1866 | 4 St Andrew Square | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1866 | 45 Charlotte Square | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1866 | 9 Abercromby Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1866 | Bank of Scotland | Barrhead | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |  | 1866 | Bank of Scotland | Gatehouse of Fleet | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1866 | Crown Insurance Company Building | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1866 | Glenmayne | Galashiels | | Selkirkshire | Scotland | |  | 1866 | Hope Park UP Church | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1866 | Mayfield | | | Dundee | Scotland | Supervised by Alexander Johnston |  | 1866 | Midlothian County Artillery Volunteers Property Drill Hall & adjoining tenement | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1866 | Munches | Dalbeattie | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | Older house absorbed into larger house |  | 1866 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Cumnock | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | 1866 | St Andrew Square, railings, gates and paths | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1866 | St Cuthbert's Poorhouse | Craigleith | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Original building |  | 1866 | Tayfield Estate, terrace of shops | Newport-on-Tay | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1866 | Two Villas, Tayfield | Newport-on-Tay | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1866 | Waverley Station, hotel and market scheme | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Competition proposal with unidentified engineer |  | 1867 | 14-20 Lennox Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Design of buildings behind façade |  | 1867 | 24, 26 Lennox Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Design of buildings behind façade |  | 1867 | 6 St Colme Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1867 | 9, 11 Lennox Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Design of buildings behind façade |  | 1867 | Bank of Scotland | Motherwell | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | |  | 1867 | Bank of Scotland, Union Street | | | Aberdeen | Scotland | Alterations (2 lower floors of façade redesigned) |  | 1867 | Bowcliff | St Andrews | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1867 | Buchanan Street Railway Station | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Report probably with sketch scheme |  | 1867 | Caledonian Railway Station and Hotel | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1867 | Cowan's Close Mission School | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1867 | Culross School | Culross | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1867 | Edradynate | Strathtay | | Perthshire | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1867 | Grantown-on-Spey Courthouse | Grantown-on-Spey | | Morayshire | Scotland | Unbuilt design |  | 1867 | House for John Broad | Melrose | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | |  | 1867 | House in Lansdowne Crescent | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Design of house - elevation to Robert Matheson's design |  | 1867 | Jordanhill House | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Minor alterations |  | 1867 | Kelso Waterworks | Kelso | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Alterations to water tower |  | 1867 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Leith | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1867 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Lockerbie | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | |  | 1867 | Scotsman Building, 26-30 Cockburn Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Enlargement to rear |  | 1867 | St Andrew's Free Church Mission Church | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Partial re-erection of Cousin church on new site; also possibly responsible for mission school, incorporated in scheme |  | 1867 | St John's Episcopal Church | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Minor alterations and re-decoration with stencilled colour scheme |  | 1867 | Trearne House | Beith | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | c. 1867 | The Anchorage and Kotagiri | Melrose | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | |  | 1868 | 12 Osborne Terrace | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1868 | 8 Rutland Square and 22 Rutland Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1868 | Buildings in Warriston Close | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Another building? Further work? |  | 1868 | Grosvenor Crescent | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Designed crescent; elevation only of 15-20 - interiors by Watherston |  | 1868 | Morningside Parish Church | Morningside | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Added transepts |  | 1868 | Nether Hailes Farmhouse | Nether Hailes | | East Lothian | Scotland | |  | 1868 | Over Hessilhead Farm Offices | Trearne Estate | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | 1868 | Ratho House | Ratho | | Midlothian | Scotland | Minor alterations |  | 1868 | Rosehill | Brechin | | Angus | Scotland | Remodelling |  | 1868 | Seafield House | Broughty Ferry | | Dundee | Scotland | Scheme - not executed |  | 1868 | Shop premises, 134 Princes Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1868 | St James Episcopal School | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1868 | St James Episcopal School | Cramond | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1868 | Villa for William Laidlaw | Galashiels | | Selkirkshire | Scotland | |  | 1868 | Westbourne | | | | Scotland | |  | February 1868 | Eton Terrace Gardens | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | August 1868 | Chalmers Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Further scheme - not built |  | 1869 | 2-10 and 16-26 Palmerston Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1869 | Bank of Scotland | Falkirk | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1869 | Bank of Scotland, St Patrick Square | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1869 | Brentham Park | Livilands | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | |  | 1869 | Caidmuir House | Peebles | | Peeblesshire | Scotland | |  | 1869 | Edinburgh Gas Light Company Offices | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1869 | Fife and Kinross District Asylum | Springfield, Cupar | | Fife | Scotland | Further block |  | 1869 | Heritable Security Investment Company, 76 George Street | | | Edinburgh? | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1869 | House for J B Innes | North Berwick | | East Lothian | Scotland | |  | 1869 | Melrose District Asylum | Melrose | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Competition designs? |  | 1869 | Ross Fountain | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Assembly of pieces of fountain and construction of basin |  | 1869 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Leven | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1869 | Shop, 17 Princes Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1869 | St Martin's Abbey | Balbeggie | | Perthshire | Scotland | Scheme for remodelling as Francois Ier chateau - not executed |  | 1869 | The Grove | Shawhead | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Extensive additions to house, addition of conservatory (Drawings dated) |  | 1869 | West Princes Street Gardens, Winter Garden and fernery | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Design drawn up but not executed |  | 1869 | Winton Park | Cockenzie | | East Lothian | Scotland | Work unclear |  | Late 1860s | Chalmers Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Nos 29-33 built to the original scheme |  | 1870 | Bank of Scotland | Oban | | Argyll | Scotland | |  | 1870 | Belmore House | Cupar | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1870 | Brand's School and School House | Milnathort | | Kinross-shire | Scotland | Addition |  | 1870 | Cargen House and stables | Troqueer | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | |  | 1870 | City of Glasgow Assurance Company Headquarters | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |  | 1870 | Grosvenor Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Design of house, following Matheson's design for façade |  | 1870 | Lanark Parish Church | Lanark | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Internal alterations |  | 1870 | Overhailes Farm Steading | | | East Lothian | Scotland | |  | 1870 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Dalkeith | | Midlothian | Scotland | |  | 1870 | Royal Bank of Scotland | St Andrews | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1870 | St Ninian's Manse | St Ninians | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | |  | 1870 | Stenton | Dunkeld (near) | | Perthshire | Scotland | Proposed second phase |  | 1870 | Tenements, Morrison Street and Torphichen Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1870 | The Firs | Selkirk | | Selkirkshire | Scotland | |  | 1870 | Thornfield, house, stables and lodge | Selkirk | | Selkirkshire | Scotland | |  | c. 1870 | 129 Princes Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Shop |  | c. 1870 | Bellimore Farmhouse | | | Ayrshire? | Scotland | |  | c. 1870 | Free Church Manse | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Attribution by HS |  | 1871 | Balquatstone House | Slamannan | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Alterations and additions |  | 1871 | Bank of Scotland | Cumnock | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | 1871 | Clydesdale Bank Headquarters, St Vincent Place | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Two competition schemes |  | 1871 | Corys | Dumfries | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Substantial addition to small villa |  | 1871 | Cottage, Laverockbank | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1871 | House for D MacLaurin | Portpatrick | | Wigtownshire | Scotland | |  | 1871 | House for R G Baillie Hamilton | Dunblane | | Perthshire | Scotland | |  | 1871 | Houses, 35-47 Manor Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | In consultation with John Lessels (but elevations probably to their own design) |  | 1871 | Kippielaw Farm Steading | Kippilaw, St Boswells | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | |  | 1871 | Ratho Girls School | Ratho | | Midlothian | Scotland | |  | 1871 | Rosebank | Roslin/Rosslyn | | Midlothian | Scotland | Alterations or new build? |  | 1871 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Blairgowrie | | Perthshire | Scotland | |  | 1871 | Scottish Widows Fund and Life Assurance and Junior Conservative Club | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Internal recontruction |  | 1871 | Threave House | Castle Douglas | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | |  | 1871 | Traprain Steading, Hailes Estate | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Extensive additions, new entrance, etc. |  | 1872 | 1-37 Drumsheugh Gardens | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Revised Lessels's elevations; designs executed by builders John Watherston & Sons |  | 1872 | 22-43 Bruntsfield Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1872 | 38-44 Drumsheugh Gardens | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1872 | 7 Hope Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Addition |  | 1872 | Auchmore | Killin | | Perthshire | Scotland | Remodelling and enlargement |  | 1872 | Bandstand, West Princes Street Gardens | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1872 | Bank of Scotland | | | Dundee | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1872 | Bolfracks | Aberfeldy (near) | | Perthshire | Scotland | Extensive alterations |  | 1872 | Dick & Stevenson Building (Scottish Lands and Buildings Company) | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Superseded Haig & Low |  | 1872 | Myres Castle | Auchtermuchty | | Fife | Scotland | Advised about repairs (Walker seems to have secured job) |  | 1872 | Palmerston Place UP Church | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Original church |  | 1872 | Pear Tree House | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations and additions |  | 1872 | Penicuik House | Penicuik | | Midlothian | Scotland | Lodge and gates |  | 1872 | Polton House | | | Midlothian | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1872 | Proposed Garden Square, Heriot's Trust Wester Coates Estate | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1872 | Royal Bank of Scotland | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Internal reconstruction, and new telling room on Royal Exchange Square |  | 1872 | Scottish Commercial Insurance Company, 53 George Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1872 | St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Competition design |  | 1872 | St Mirren Street | Paisley | | Renfrewshire | | |  | 1872 | Tenement, West Nicolson Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1872 | Young Women's Christian Association, George Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1873 | 135 George Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1873 | 143-146 Princes Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Shop at no 145 |  | 1873 | Bank of Scotland | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1873 | Clifton Park, Linton | Kelso | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | |  | 1873 | Commercial Bank Building | Stirling | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Conversion and extension for former Commercial Bank to form infirmary |  | 1873 | Greenhead Farm Steading | | | | Scotland | |  | 1873 | House for Dr Muir | Selkirk | | Selkirkshire | Scotland | |  | 1873 | Kilberry House | South Knapdale | | Argyll | Scotland | Large addition |  | 1873 | Liberton Free Church | Liberton | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Spire completed to their own design |  | 1873 | Offices and shops, Gordon Street and West Nile Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |  | 1873 | Pilrig Free Church | Pilrig | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Unexecuted design for new halls |  | 1873 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Lochee | | Dundee | Scotland | |  | 1873 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Catrine | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | 1874 | 1, 2 Rothesay Terrace | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1874 | 4 Great Stuart Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1874 | Bendameer | Burntisland | | Fife | Scotland | HS attribution on stylistic grounds - questionable according to DMW |  | 1874 | Clarendon Hotel and Shopping Arcade | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Peddie & Kinnear plans drawn up and tenders received but not built. Commission went to W Hamilton Beattie |  | 1874 | Clarendon Place | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Formation of shops within existing building |  | 1874 | Courtil Rozel | | Guernsey | | Channel Islands | Alterations |  | 1874 | Ladybank Free Church | Ladybank | | Fife | Scotland | Original church designed and built |  | 1874 | Newpark | Annan | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | |  | 1874 | Rossie Castle | Montrose | | Angus | Scotland | Possible work |  | 1874 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Bridgeton | | Glasgow | Scotland | |  | 1874 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Moffat | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | |  | 1874 | South Bridge and Cowgate | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1874 | Stables, 16 Church Lane (now Gloucester Street?) | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1874 | Townhill Colliery | Dunfermline | | Fife | Scotland | Alterations to manager's house |  | 1874 | University of Edinburgh, Medical School and McEwan Hall | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Two competition schemes |  | 1874 | Warehouse on Drury Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |  | 1874 | Wemyss Castle | East Wemyss | | Fife | Scotland | New gallery, parapets and other alterations |  | 1874 | Woodhouselee | Glencorse | | Midlothian | Scotland | Alterations and additions |  | 1875 | Auchnaba House | Port Ann | | Argyll | Scotland | Large addition |  | 1875 | Bank of Scotland | Paisley | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |  | 1875 | Chalmers Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | New design for completion of street |  | 1875 | Dalbeattie Established Church | Dalbeattie | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | |  | 1875 | Drumpark House | | | | Scotland | |  | 1875 | Dunblane Hydropathic Institution | Dunblane | | Perthshire | Scotland | |  | 1875 | East UP Church | Peebles | | Peeblesshire | Scotland | |  | 1875 | Heatherlie House | Selkirk | | Selkirkshire | Scotland | |  | 1875 | Hill House | Kirknewton | | Midlothian | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1875 | Musselburgh Golf Club | Musselburgh | | Midlothian | Scotland | Complete rebuilding |  | 1875 | National Bank of Scotland, Paisley Branch | Paisley | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |  | 1875 | Prior Bank | Melrose | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Reconstruction |  | 1875 | Priorwood House, gardener's cottage | Melrose | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | |  | 1875 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Elgin | | Morayshire | Scotland | |  | 1875 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Dalmellington | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |  | 1875 | Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Company office | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1875 | St Cuthbert's Public School | Gorgie | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1875 | West Campbell Street and West George Street corner | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Reconstuction and extension as office block |  | c. 1875 | Taymouth Castle | Taymouth | | Perthshire | Scotland | Internal alterations |  | c. 1875 | Taypark | West Ferry | | Dundee | Scotland | West additions - in association with James MacLaren? |  | 1876 | 88 George Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Remodelling and addition of saloon |  | 1876 | Kinmonth House and lodge | Rhynd | | Perthshire | Scotland | |  | 1876 | Rothesay Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1876 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Lanark | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | |  | 1876 | Villa at Trinity, Lomond Road | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1876 | Villa at Trinity, Lomond Road | Trinity | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1876 | Warehouse | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |  | 1876 | Wauchope House | | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Drawings by John More Dick Peddie working as assistant |  | 1877 | 13 Ainslie Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1877 | 33-34 Charlotte Square | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations to no 34 |  | 1877 | Bank of Scotland Headquarters, The Mound | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Retaining wall |  | 1877 | Blythswoodholm Hotel | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |  | 1877 | Bruntsfield Crescent | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations to number 1 |  | 1877 | Compstown House (or Cumstoun House) | Twynholm | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1877 | Craiglockhart Hydropathic Institution | Craiglockhart | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1877 | Dundee Court House and Bridewell | | | Dundee | Scotland | Alterations to prison |  | 1877 | Kirkcudbright Public Hall and Museum | Kirkcudbright | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | |  | 1877 | National Bank of Scotland Head Office (Former) | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Proposed alterations |  | 1877 | The Hawthorns | Galashiels | | Selkirkshire | Scotland | |  | 1877 | West Shandon House | | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | Additions to West Shandon House to form hydropathic |  | 1878 | 13, 14, 15, 16 Rothesay Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1878 | 17 Lynedoch Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1878 | 2-6 Rothesay Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Provided design |  | 1878 | 26 St Andrew Square | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Deepened on plan at rear |  | 1878 | 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Rothesay Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1878 | Balcurvie | Markinch | | Fife | Scotland | |  | 1878 | Callander Hydropathic | Callander | | Perthshire | Scotland | With Francis Mackison & Son |  | 1878 | Coltbridge School | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1878 | Longmore Hospital for Incurables | Newington | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1878 | Moffat Established Parish Church | Moffat | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Proposed alterations |  | c. 1878 | Kirkcudbright Manse | Kirkcudbright | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | Alterations? |  | 1879 | 10 Great Stuart Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations |  | 1879 | 30, 32, 34 Palmerston Place | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1879 | Blackyett | Ecclefechan | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | |  | 1879 | Drum Mains Steading | New Abbey | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | |  | 1879 | Fife and Kinross District Asylum | Springfield, Cupar | | Fife | Scotland | Detached block (cost: £7,000) |  | 1879 | Linton Parish Churchyard, memorial to sixteenth Lord Trimlestown | Linton, Morebattle | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | |  | 1879 | Oakbank House | | | | Scotland | |  | 1879 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Falkirk | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | |  | 1879 | Senwick House | Borgue | | Kirkcudbrightshire | Scotland | Porch and attic dormers; lodge |  | 1879 | Stanerigg House with stables, groom's house, kennels and courtyard | Coldstream | | Berwickshire | Scotland | Reconstruction |  | 1879 | Stonykirk Parish Church | Stonykirk | | Wigtownshire | Scotland | |  | 1879 | Tenement, 64-70 Great Junction Street | Leith | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |  | 1879 | Union Club | St Andrews | | Fife | Scotland | Alterations - not carried out. John Milne commissioned |  | 1885 | Aberlour House | Aberlour | | Banffshire | Scotland | Alterations including terrace in front of house |  | 1888 | Tantallon Castle | | | East Lothian | Scotland | Advised on restoration with Basil Champneys. Probably the 'Mr Peddie' referred to in the Haddingtonshire Courier - acting for SPAB or it may be John More Dick Peddie. |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this architect: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes |  | Bailey, Rebecca M | 1996 | Scottish architects' papers: a source book | | Edinburgh: The Rutland Press | pp133-4 |  | Foster, J | | Members of Parliament, Scotland, 1357-1882 | | | |  | Jackson, A | | The Enterprising Scot | | | pp216-7 |  | Walker, David W | 2002 | Peddie and Kinnear | | Unpublished PhD thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002 | |  | Webster, J | | Scottish Investment Trust plc | | | |  | Weir, R | | History of the Scottish American Investment Company 1873-1973 | | | |  | Wilkie, T | | Representation of Scotland | | | |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this architect: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes |  | Builder | 21 March 1891 | | | Obituary |  | Scotsman | 13 March 1891 | | | Obituary |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this architect: | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes |  | University of Edinburgh Archives | Edinburgh University Matriculation Registers | | |
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