Architects

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John Arthur

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11/06/1926

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1866

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10/07/1936

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John Arthur was born the son of John Arthur, farmer at Barr, Ayrshire in 1866 and his wife Margaret Donald. He studied at Glasgow School of Art 1896-97 and was articled to John Mercer of Ayr, 1882-89, and moving thereafter to Burnet Son & Campbell and opting to join Campbell on the breakup of that partnership in 1897. He established his own practice in 1900, first with an office in Glasgow (131 West Regent Street, later 164 Bath Street) and then a branch in Kilmarnock (31 Rennie Street), his practice being very much Ayrshire and Renfrewshire-based and concerned with domestic, ecclesiastical, school and estate work. Like the apparently unrelated Airdrie architect, John Maurice Arthur, John Arthur became a Licentiate of the RIBA in the mass intake of 20 July 1911, his proposers being John Bennie Wilson and the Glasgow Institute of Architects as a body.

Arthur married Elizabeth Smith McMillan. He was remembered in the Burnet office as being very able. His known works are very few but relatively large. He won the competition for Newton Park School, Ayr, but the commission was given to the Ayr architect, H V Eaglesham. He did, however, secure the competition for Marr College at Troon in 1919. Work on the main building did not begin until the late 1920s and the Kilmarnock office does not seem to have been re-opened after the First World War. By the late 1920s he had merged his practice with that of Alan George MacNaughtan as Arthur & MacNaughtan. They won the competition for Glasgow University Students Union with a Burnetian Scots Renaissance design in 1929. Arthur died at 5 Springvale Park, Ayr on 10 July 1936 of a cerebral haemorrhage. At that date Marr College was still incomplete and it fell to MacNaughtan to finish it.

'Biography authored by the Dictionary of Scottish Architects Compilation Team.'

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

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Address	Class	Date From Char	Date From Type	Date To Char	Date To Type	Notes
31 Rennie Street Kilmarnock Ayrshire Scotland	Private
Northfield Barassie Ayrshire Scotland	Private

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Address	Class	Date From	Date To
131 West Regent Street Glasgow Scotland	Business	1900	1913
137 West Regent Street Glasgow Scotland	Business	1914	1919
164 Bath Street Glasgow Scotland	Business	1921	1936

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

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position	Notes
Arthur & MacNaughtan	100124	1920s	In year 1935	Partner
John Mercer	100052	In year 1882	In year 1889	Apprentice
Burnet Son & Campbell	100125	In year 1889	In year 1897	Assistant	finally head assistant; joined Campbell when partnership broke up.
John Archibald Campbell	200179	In year 1897	In year 1900	Chief Assistant

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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	Notes
John Stirling Jarvie	201730	1902 or 1903	In year 1903	Assistant
John Wilson Wood	206670	In year 1906		Assistant

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The following individuals proposed this person for RIBA membership (click on an item to view details):

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Proposer	Proposer Link	Date Proposed	Notes
John Bennie Wilson	201479	1911/07/20	for Licentiateship - as President of the Glasgow Institute of Architects

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Part	Notes
Close, Robert	Ayrshire and Arran, an Illustrated Architectural Guide	1992	Edinburgh: RIAS		Biography

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The following periodicals contain references to this person:

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Periodical Name	Publisher	Date Circ	Edition	Notes
RIBA Journal		1937/11/08	v45	p48 - obituary

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The following archives hold material relating to this person:

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Archive Name	Source	Source Cat No	Building Id	Item Name	Notes
RIBA Nomination Papers	RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum	100005			L v16 no1100; also papers of Harry Hubbard (A v24 no2731 (microfilm reel 23) - declaration witnessed by Arthur

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