Basic Biographical Details Name: | (Captain) Douglas Stuart McMillan | Designation: | | Born: | 29 October 1888 | Died: | 1963 | Bio Notes: | Douglas Stuart McMillan was born on 29 October 1888, the son of Duncan McMillan, architect and his wife Isabella Ross, and the much younger brother of John Ross McMillan. He was articled to George G Irvine of Aberdeen from 1905 to 1910, transferring in the latter year to the practice of his father and brother, D & J R McMillan, where he remained as assistant until 1911 when he left for British Columbia, Canada to gain experience with a qualified Land Surveyor. Prior to his Canadian trip he attended classes at Robert Gordon's Technical College in Aberdeen. He returned from Canada as principal assistant in his father's office in 1912. In 1914 he was taken into partnership but from 4 August of that year he served with the Gordon Highlanders in the Expeditionary Force in France rising to the rank of Captain until his discharge on 2 February 1919.
In the 1920s the firm specialised in housing estate work. Duncan McMillan died in Aberdeen on 22 June 1928; his sons continued the practice thereafter. Douglas Stuart McMillan was admitted LRIBA in late 1930, his proposers being William Edgar Gauld, William Liddle Duncan and the then Secretary of the Aberdeen Society of Architects, of which he was also a member of the council at that time. He was elected FRIBA a year later in the middle of 1931, his proposers being Gauld, George Morrison Hay and Robert Leslie Rollo.
Douglas Stuart McMillan was listed with the title 'Captain' in the RIBA Klendar of 1950-51. He died at the Royal Infirmary in Aberdeen aged 75 in 1963. His wife Annie Lawrie, had predeceased him but he was survived by his daughter. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | 105, Crown Street, Aberdeen, Scotland | Business | 1914 * | After 1939 | | | Rosebank, West Cults, Aberdeenshire, Scotland | Private | 1930 * | 1931(?) | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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ReferencesArchive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this : | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | H M Register House | Death Register | | | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | L no 3535 (box 13); F no 2933 (box 14) |
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