Architects

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J M Dick Peddie & Walker Todd

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20/03/1926

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1920

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20/03/1926

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1936

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Having practised on his own account for three years following the dissolution of his partnership with James Forbes Smith, in January 1920 John More Dick Peddie (born 1853) merged his practice with that of his former assistant William James Walker Todd and his partner Sydney Houghton Miller (both born 1884) as J M Dick Peddie & W J Walker Todd. Peddie retired in November of the same year and appears to have taken most of the practice's library with him: his copy of Garner and Stratton's 'Domestic Architecture of England during the Tudor Period', now in the possession of Mrs Scott Duncan, has an inscription recording its gift to Walker Todd at that time.

In the earlier Todd and Miller years of the Peddie practice an important figure appears to have been David William Crawford who made the fine perspective of the first design for the Royal Bank in Hope Street, Edinburgh but nothing is as yet known of his subsequent career. Miller redesigned it but left the partnership in 1927 and opened his own office at 15 York Place. The reasons for his leaving are not known but the continued omission of his name from the practice title may have rankled.

Miller's place was taken by another former assistant, David John Chisholm, also born in 1884 and a contemporary of Miller's at George Watson's College, who had been articled to Peddie & Washington Browne for the unusually long period of 1901-08 and had subsequently sought experience elsewhere before rejoining the firm shortly after the end of the First World War. He was an exceptionally fine draughtsman with a profound knowledge of Gothic and Classic detail. Those in the office in the late 1940s remembered him as 'extremely artistic' and notably helpful to younger staff with encouragement and advice despite his rapidly failing health.

When Chisholm was taken into partnership he was the only member of the practice to be a member of the RIBA, having been admitted as an Associate in 1912, but in March 1931 Walker Todd, at that time a member of the Council of the Edinburgh Architectural Association, was elected ARSA concurrently with his belated application for admission as LRIBA; his proposers were his old colleagues at Peddie & Washington Browne's, John Wilson and Robert Stirling Reid. His election as ARSA almost immediately brought about his admission as Fellow on the recommendation of the Council in November. Wilson (by then Chief Architect at the Department of Health for Scotland) reported to the Council that 'he is in my opinion one of the ablest architects we have in Scotland and his work proves that beyond doubt'. Wilson probably had in mind Walker Todd's local authority housing which was among the very best of its period.

In 1936 the partnership of Jamieson & Arnott was dissolved as a consequence of the enforced retirement of Ernest Arthur Oliphant Auldjo Jamieson through ill health. That partnership was then less busy than it had been and for reasons not entirely clear James Alexander Arnott left to practise alone. Jamieson's son, George Lindsay Auldjo Jamieson (born 1905), then sought a merger with Dick Peddie & Walker Todd. He brought to Dick Peddie & Walker Todd the Sydney Mitchell & Wilson archive, much of the Jamieson & Arnott archive and those clients who were his father's rather than Arnott's. The practice title then became Dick Peddie, Todd & Jamieson, letterheads of that time bearing the subhead 'incorporating Sydney Mitchell & Wilson' to leave no doubt that the Jamiesons had had the dominant financial interest in the Jamieson & Arnott partnership.

(See separate entries on Dick Peddie, Todd & Jamieson and on the individual partners for later practice history.)

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The following private or business addresses are associated with this person:

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Address	Class	Date From	Date From Type	Date To	Date To Type	Notes
8 Albyn Place Edinburgh Scotland	Business	1920/01		After 1931

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The following individuals were employed or trained by this person (click on an item to view details):

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position
William Henry Sayers	201536	1919/09	In year 1923	Apprentice
John More Dick Peddie	200118	1920/01	1920/11	Partner
James William Davies Kelly	206890	1920/01	1920/07	Apprentice
Sydney Houghton Miller	202743	1920/01	In year 1927	Partner
William James Walker Todd	201830	1920/01	In year 1936	Partner
James William Davies Kelly	206890	1920/07	1924/03	Assistant
Alexander Dewar McGill	205657	1920/09	c. 1925	Apprentice
(Captain) Gordon Nasmyth Mackintosh	207125	1923/07/01	Early 1926s	Apprentice
Alexander James Wilson Morrison	204732	1926/09	1931/08	Apprentice
John Strachan Fraser	204770	1928/08	1930/10	Apprentice
John Somerville Baillie	100431	1928/10/01	1933/09/30	Apprentice
William Thomas Christie Walker	203969	1930/09	1935/09	Apprentice
George Lindsay Auldjo Jamieson	202934	After 1923	Before 1930	Apprentice
Alexander Dewar McGill	205657	After 1930	Before 1937	Assistant
Donald Denoon Jack	205137	In year 1919	In year 1920	Apprentice

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This person was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details):

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Building Name	Date Started	Town, District or Village	City or County	Country	Notes
154-166 Canongate, including Sugarhouse Close	In year 1895		Edinburgh	Scotland	Alterations for Mr Craigdallic
House for J R Milne	1920s	Colinton	Edinburgh	Scotland
Drumsheugh Toll, house and studio	1920s		Edinburgh	Scotland	Alterations
St Catherine of Sienna Episcopal Church	In year 1920	Bo'ness / Borrowstouness	West Lothian	Scotland
Semi-detached houses, Elcho Road	In year 1920	Longniddry	East Lothian	Scotland
Abbotsford Lodge	In year 1920	Morningside	Edinburgh	Scotland
Black's Factory	In year 1920	Gorgie	Edinburgh	Scotland
Housing for East Lothian County Council	In year 1920	Dirleton	East Lothian	Scotland
Garroch House	In year 1920	New Galloway	Kirkcudbrightshire	Scotland	Alterations
Six cottages and other housing for East Lothian County Council, Western District	In year 1920	Innerwick	East Lothian	Scotland
Council Housing for East Lothian County Council, Western District	In year 1920	Gullane	East Lothian	Scotland
Housing for East Lothian County Council, Western District	In year 1920	Aberlady	East Lothian	Scotland
Colonial Life Assurance Co	In year 1920		Edinburgh	Scotland	Alterations to houses of 1775 to form commercial offices
Kailzie House, twin gate lodges	In year 1920	Traquair/Kirkburn	Peeblesshire	Scotland	Reconstruction
County Council housing, Buccleuch Street	In year 1920	Innerleithen	Peeblesshire	Scotland

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Part	Notes
Walker, David W	Peddie and Kinnear	2002	Unpublished PhD thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002
Bailey, Rebecca M	Scottish architects' papers: a source book	1996	Edinburgh: The Rutland Press		pp133-4

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