Basic Biographical Details | Name: | Wharrie, Colledge & Brand | | Designation: | | | Born: | 1876 | | Died: | 1897 | | Bio Notes: | Thomas Wharrie was born 30 August 1828 at Symington, Ayrshire, the third son of the Rev Thomas Smith Wharrie and his wife Eliza, daughter of Rev John Fraser of Liberton. He would appear to have trained as both surveyor and engineer.
In 1853 Wharrie formed a partnership with William H Steel as Wharrie & Steel, Land Surveyors, though this only survived for two years being dissolved on 3 November 1855. In or about the following year he was in partnership with John Dennison as Wharrie & Dennison, Mining Engineers and Surveyors. Again this partnership was short-lived and was dissolved on 1st May 1857. In the 1860s and certainly before 1867 Wharrie was in partnership with James Smith as Smith & Wharrie. Smith died in or shortly before April 1874. It was in that year that Francis Steel Colledge - generally known as Frank Colledge and who may have been related to Wharrie's former partner William H Steel - entered into partnership with James Brand as Colledge & Brand, and Wharrie joined them two years later, the practice title changing to Wharrie, Colledge & Brand, Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers.
Wharrie, Colledge & Brand were factors to Pollok and other west of Scotland estates, undertaking associated civil engineering and architectural work; although they did not design the original layout, they were responsible for the feuing of Pollok, Pollokshields and parts of Govan. Wharrie was Burgh Surveyor Hillhead from its creation as a Police Burgh in 1869 until its amalgamation with Glasgow 1891.
The practice appear to have been architects for the farmhouses and steadings on the Pollok and Corrour estates as Sir John Stirling Maxwell commissioned their one major building, the shooting lodge at Corrour, nominally designed by Frank Colledge, perhaps from Sir John's sketches: architectural assistance may have been bought in. The result was not found entirely satisfactory as the Falconers were subsequently brought in to remodel it.
Wharrie Colledge & Brand was dissolved on 30 April 1897, after which it continued as Wharrie & Colledge. James Brand established a new office on his own at 65 Bath Street, Glasgow. It is unclear how much involvement Wharrie had after 1893 as from that time he was living in London. By 1901 he had completely retired. Colledge acquired the whole firm and ran it on his own at 103 Bath Street from 1903 but the firm title was retained until 1949.
| Private and Business Addresses| The following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes |  | 109, Bath Street, Glasgow, Scotland(?) | Business | 1884 * | | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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ReferencesPeriodical References| The following periodicals contain references to this : | | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Edinburgh Gazette | 1 June 1897 | | | p518 | | Edinburgh Gazette | 27 April 1917 | | | p804 |
Archive References| The following archives hold material relating to this : | | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | Courtesy of Neil Darlington | Information sent via DSA website | | Sent November 2009 |
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