Basic Biographical Details

Name: Walker & Beattie
Designation:  
Born: 1877
Died: 1888 or 1889
Bio Notes: George James Walker was born in 1835 or 1836, the son of Robert Walker, farmer and his wife Margaret Gordon. Nothing is known of his training or early career. He was a distant relative of David Walker who was in partnership with the Aberdeen architect, civil engineer and garden designer James Forbes Beattie in the 1820s and 1830s (see separate entry for the earlier Walker & Beattie practice).

George James Walker formed a second Walker & Beattie partnership in 1877, the year of the death of James Forbes Beattie, with the latter's son James Alexander Beattie. The younger Beattie had been born to James Forbes Beattie and his wife Jane Byres Copland about 1846. He seems to have been an apprentice or assistant in his father's office and at some point in or before 1874 had been taken into partnership as James F Beattie & Sons. This practice had probably continued until his father's death on 10 January 1877 at Ecclesgreig, St Cyrus, Kincardineshire when he left heritable estate of £27,833 16s 11d. It is probable that the new firm of Walker & Beattie inherited the practice of James Forbes Beattie.

In about 1888 or 1889 (not 1913 as Muriel Barnett writes), the Walker & Beattie partnership was dissolved. Walker subsequently merged his practice with the essentially similar one of Thomas Duncan, perhaps the better to compete with Jenkins & Marr, another firm specialising in agricultural business which was also formed from the merger of two separate rural practices. The new partnership was known as Walker & Duncan. Beattie worked on his own thereafter until his death aged 68 on 20 February 1914. Coincidentally George James Walker died on the same day.

George James Walker was the seventh-generation owner of Portlethen farm and was a fine breeder and judge of Aberdeen-Angus cattle and a crack shot, representing Scotland on more than one occasion.

Private and Business Addresses

The following private or business addresses are associated with this :
 AddressTypeDate fromDate toNotes
Item 1 of 1Aberdeen, ScotlandBusiness   

Employment and Training

Employees or Pupils

The following individuals were employed or trained by this (click on an item to view details):
 NameDate fromDate toPositionNotes
Item 1 of 3James Alexander Beattie18771888 or 1889Partner 
Item 2 of 3George James Walker18771888 or 1889Partner 
Item 3 of 3Charles John MacLean Mackintosh18871888 or 1889Chief 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 startedBuilding nameTown, district or villageIslandCity or countyCountryNotes
Item 1 of 221877Tilquhillie Farmstead  KincardineshireScotlandFarm buildings
Item 2 of 221879Charlestown Estate, Lochside Steading  KincardineshireScotland 
Item 3 of 221880Upperton of Findon  KincardineshireScotland 
Item 4 of 221881Chirness Estate, Pyper's croft and North Sacach  AberdeenshireScotland 
Item 5 of 221882Tilquhillie Farmstead  KincardineshireScotlandFarm buildings
Item 6 of 221883Arbeadie feuing  KincardineshireScotlandFeuing plan
Item 7 of 221884Ballogie Home Farm, including gamekeeper's bothy and kennels  AberdeenshireScotlandKennels
Item 8 of 221885Ardee House  KincardineshireScotlandGarden layout
Item 9 of 221885Barclayhill  KincardineshireScotland 
Item 10 of 221885Mill of Findon  KincardineshireScotlandAlterations to steading and mill
Item 11 of 221886Gillybrands FarmGillybrands Aberdeenshire/KincardineshireScotland 
Item 12 of 221888Ballogie Home Farm, including gamekeeper's bothy and kennels  AberdeenshireScotlandAlterations and cottages
Item 13 of 221888Newtonhill EstateNewtonhill Aberdeenshire/KincardineshireScotland'Work on estate'
Item 14 of 221888Portlethen Public HallPortlethen KincardineshireScotland 
Item 15 of 221888Springhill Farm  AberdeenshireScotlandAdditions
Item 16 of 221889Cammachmore Estate, Backburn  KincardineshireScotland 
Item 17 of 221889Cammachmore estate, Cobblebeards SteadingCammachmore KincardineshireScotlandAlterations? New build?
Item 18 of 221889Cookney, farm buildingsCookney KincardineshireScotland 
Item 19 of 221889Mains of PortlethenPortlethen KincardineshireScotland 
Item 20 of 221889Tillymorgan Farm  AberdeenshireScotlandFarm buildings
Item 21 of 221889Westfield farm steading  AberdeenshireScotlandAdditions
Item 22 of 221889Westhill Mains  AberdeenshireScotlandAdditions

References

Bibliographic References

The following books contain references to this :
 Author(s)DateTitlePartPublisherNotes
Item 1 of 1Scotlands People Website Wills & Testaments  Aberdeen Sheriff Court Inventories SC1/36/80 and SC1/37/79