Basic Biographical Details Name: | Gauldie, Hardie, Wright & Needham | Designation: | Architectural practice | Started: | 1950 | Ended: | 1975 | Bio Notes: | William Sinclair Gauldie was born on 29 December 1918, the son of Dundee architect William Gauldie. He trained with Frank Thomson, and inherited his father's practice upon his death on 4 October 1945. In 1947 he took into partnership an old friend, Arthur Frances Stevenson Wright (also born 1918) who had trained with Thoms & Wilkie; and in 1950 they took into partnership John Needham (born 1909), Head of the School of Architecture at Dundee College of Art, the firm then becoming Gauldie Hardie Wright & Needham, until Needham left for Sheffield in 1975.
Sinclair Gauldie married Enid Elizabeth Macneilage, and had one son and two daughters. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this architectural practice: | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes |  | Dundee, Scotland | Business | | | |  | 26, Commercial Street, Dundee, Scotland | Business | 1950 * | | |  | Castle Hill House/1, High Street, Dundee, Scotland | Business | 1955 | | |  | 2, Osborne Place, Magdalen Yard Road, Dundee, Scotland | Business | Before 1963 | After 1975 | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this architectural practice: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes |  | Bailey, Rebecca M | 1996 | Scottish architects' papers: a source book | | Edinburgh: The Rutland Press | Personal information from Sinclair Gauldie |  | Glendinning, Miles | 1997 | Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75 | | Tuckwell Press Ltd | p18 Belmont Hall of Residence |  | Municipal Annual | 1964 | Scottish Municipal Annual | 1964-1965 | | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this architectural practice: | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes |  | Professor David M Walker personal archive | Professor David M Walker, notes and collection of archive material | | |
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