Basic Biographical Details Name: | Peter Lamont Burnside Borthwick | Designation: | | Born: | 25 February 1926 | Died: | | Bio Notes: | Peter Lamont Burnside Borthwick was born on 25 February 1926. He studied at Glasgow School of Architecture from October 1943 at the same time as undertaking an articled apprenticeship to Thomas S Cordiner. He passed the final exam in July 1949 and was admitted ARIBA on 27 November that year, his proposers being Cordiner, Professor William J Smith and William McCrea.
He left Cordiner's firm in 1951 to spend time working as assistant to the Colonial Office Public Works Department of the Gold Coast (now Ghana), in Accra. Three years later, he returned to Glasgow and to Cordiner's office, where he remained until 1957. He then went to Canada, where in 1958 he secured an appointment as executive architect to Moody & Moore of Winnipeg. In that year or the following one, he moved to the practice of Balhaddie, Helmer & M___ of Ottawa.
In 1960 he set up his own independent practice in Ontario, having obtained a licence by sitting an external professional practice exam to become a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Not long afterwards, he moved back to Glasgow, where he entered into partnership with Cordiner in 1964, the practice being known as Thomas Cordiner Cunningham & Partners by 1970. He was elected FRIBA on 5 April 1967, proposed by William McCrea, John Watson and Frederick Robert Wylie. In the RIBA Directory of 1979 he he would appear to have taken a post with the City Engineer's Department in Durban.
FRIBA nomination papers job list (no dates given on papers):
OWN PRACTICE Private house, Ottawa Factory & office for John Watson & Co, printers, Glasgow St Ninian's Approved School, Gartmore, Perthshire Cranhill Parish Church
PARTNERSHIP PRACTICES Office interior for Thomas Cordiner & Partners St Andrews Approved School, Shandon, Derbyshire Convent buildings for Dominican Sisters, Glasgow Barrhead Civic Centre Alterations and additions to Glasgow Sheriff Court Proposed Glasgow College of Technology
| Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | 73, Waverley Gardens, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | Before 1949 | After 1954 | | | Public Works Department Head Office, PO Box 136, Accra, Gold Coast | Business | 1953 * | 1954 | West Africa | | 249, West George Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1964 * | | | | 314, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | 1970 | | | | Durban Corporation, City Engineer's Department, , PO Box 680, Durban 4000, South Africa | Business | 1979 | | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
Employment and TrainingEmployers* earliest date known from documented sources.
RIBARIBA Proposers
Buildings and Designs
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this : | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | RIBA | 1950 | The RIBA Kalendar 1950-1951 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | | | RIBA | 1970 | RIBA Directory 1970 | | | | | Williamson, Riches, Higgs | 1990 | Glasgow (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | p435 |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this : | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | RIAS, Rutland Square | Records of membership | | | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | A no10854 (stored under F5816); F no5816 (combined box 102). |
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