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James Carrick

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Architect

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28/01/1880

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15/03/1940

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James Carrick was born on 28 January 1880 in Glasgow. In 1893 he was articled to Peter Macgregor Chalmers and he remained as assistant until he joined the office of James Kennedy Hunter in Ayr. In the following year, 1900, he joined James Miller's Glasgow office for experience helping with the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1901. He returned to Hunter's in 1903. During these periods he studied at Glasgow School of Art and at The Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College under Charles Gourlay and Alexander McGibbon, becoming an assistant teacher of Building Construction at the Technical College from 1901 to 1903. In 1904 he made a study tour of medieval and other buildings in the North of England, visiting Carlisle, Hexham, Newcastle, Durham, York, Ripon, Selby, Fountains and Kirkstall. Later travels took him to France, Spain, Italy, Egypt and India.

As an assistant Carrick had a larger-than-usual role in Hunter's office, particularly after his return from Miller's in 1903, an album of photographs preserved within the practice recording projects for which he had executive responsibility. His role in the others during his time as chief assistant are unknown. That role increased significantly when he became associate-in-charge rather than partner (a very early instance of such an arrangement) in 1910, and he was admitted LRIBA on 19 December of that year, his proposers being Hunter himself, James Miller and Henry Edward Clifford. He also taught Architecture and Building Construction at Ayr Academy from 1906 to 1910.

Carrick was on war service from 1915 to 1919 and reached the rank of Captain of the Royal Artillery (later becoming a Major in the Territorials). He returned to his previous position in Hunter's office in 1920. When Hunter retired in 1928, Carrick left to set up practice on his own account, Hunter's practice being continued by his assistants Henry Sloan McNair and Andrew Douglas as James K Hunter Architects.

Carrick's son, James Andrew Carrick, born on 33 April 1911 and apprenticed to James Miller whilst studying at the Glasgow School of Architecture, joined his father's practice in 1931 or 1932 and was taken into partnership in 1934 under the style of J & J A Carrick. He had spent a month in England in 1930 to study ecclesiastical architecture, and in 1931 had won the Alexander Thomson travelling studentship, which he used for a three-month study tour of Rome and Northern Italy two years later; and in 1932 he had been runner-up for the Grissell Medal. He had obtained his diploma and passed the professional practice exam in summer 1933, enabling him to be admitted ARIBA on 4 December that year, his proposers being Andrew Graham Henderson, John Keppie and James Archibald Morris, an old friend of his father's. In 1934, the same year he was taken into partnership, he spent a month studying Greek buildings in Sicily and Southern Italy as Bourdon Memorial Student.

The elder Carrick was an excellent Arts and Crafts architect, mainly in an English Tudor-Jacobean idiom close in style to Miller's work. In the younger Carrick's hands the direction of the practice quickly changed, although traditional Arts and Crafts could still be provided according to the tastes of the client. The son was a significant modernist, as can be seen at Gourock and Rothesay Pavilions and to a lesser degree at Ayr Ice Rink, but his career was curtailed by the Second World War.

Carrick senior was a prominent member of the Ayr Rotary Club and was also a member of the Ayr Attractions Committee, being responsible for the architectural work for the Ayrshire Pageant 'some years ago'.

The elder Carrick died suddenly on 15 March 1940, his son resuming business after the war and continuing the practice alone thereafter. The elder Carrick left moveable estate of £9955 1s 2d. And was survived by his widow Susan Andrew Cunningham (whom he had married on 1 June 1906) who died on 30 July 1979 in her ninety-sixth year and his son and daughter.

'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	Notes
Kingarth/92 St Leonards Road Ayr Ayrshire Scotland	Private/business
Martins Alloway Ayrshire Scotland	Private
25 Welldyke Avenue Ayr Ayrshire Scotland	Private	Address given in RSA for this year. Uncertain if home address or error?

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Address	Class	Date From	Date To	Notes
Kingarth/92 St Leonards Road Ayr Ayrshire Scotland	Private/business	Before 1910	After 1914
25 Wellington Square Ayr Ayrshire Scotland	Business	1926		Is listed at this address in 1939-40 RIBA Kalander
Wellington House/7 Alloway Place Ayr Ayrshire Scotland	Business	1929	1940

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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
James Kennedy Hunter	200109	1889/03/04	1900/02	Assistant	Returned as assistant in 1903
Peter Macgregor Chalmers	200244	1893/06/04	1899/03	Apprentice	Remained as assistant
James Miller	200001	1900/02/10	1903/11/03	Assistant
James Kennedy Hunter	200109	1903/11/03	In year 1915	Assistant
J & J A Carrick	200333	In year 1934	In year 1940	Partner

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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
James Andrew Carrick	200332	1931 or 1932	In year 1934	Assistant
William Archibald Park Jack	203739	In year 1933	In year 1934	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
James Miller	200001	1910/12/19	for Licentiateship
Henry Edward Clifford	200235	1910/12/19	for Licentiateship
James Kennedy Hunter	200109	1910/12/19	for Licentiateship
George Arthur Boswell	200152	1939/02/06	for Fellowship
James Lochhead	200391	1939/02/06	for Fellowship
Andrew Graham Henderson	201519	1939/02/06	for Fellowship

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

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Person	Date Proposed	Notes
John Frederick ('Fred') Torry	1939/12/12	For Associateship
Thomas Findlay Lyon (Professor)	1940/04/16	For Associateship

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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
St Bride's Church	In year 1898	Partick	Glasgow	Scotland	As assistant to P Macgregor Chalmers
Glenluce Abbey	In year 1898		Wigtownshire	Scotland	Restoration - as assistant to P Macgregor Chalmers
Black Clauchrie	In year 1899		Ayrshire	Scotland	Billiard room: as assistant to James Kennedy Hunter
Glasgow International Exhibition of 1901	In year 1900	Kelvingrove	Glasgow	Scotland	As assistant to James Miller
Central Station Hotel	In year 1901		Glasgow	Scotland	Extension - as assistant to James Miller
Glasgow Royal Infirmary	In year 1901		Glasgow	Scotland	As assistant to James Miller
Dunskey House	In year 1903	Portpatrick	Wigtownshire	Scotland	As assistant to James Kennedy Hunter
Belleisle Cottages	In year 1903	Alloway	Ayrshire	Scotland	Carrick as assistant to James Kennedy Hunter
Ayr Pavilion, Low Green	In year 1904	Ayr	Ayrshire	Scotland	As assistant to James Kennedy Hunter
Glenfairn	In year 1904	Ayr	Ayrshire	Scotland	Alterations and extensions, including billiard room - as assistant to James Kennedy Hunter
Carnegie Free Library, Maybole	In year 1905	Maybole	Ayrshire	Scotland	As assistant to James Kennedy Hunter
Shops and dwelling houses	In year 1905	Ayr	Ayrshire	Scotland	As assistant to James Kennedy Hunter
Gordon Buildings	In year 1905	Ayr	Ayrshire	Scotland	As assistant to James Kennedy Hunter.
Montgomerie House	In year 1905	Tarbolton (near)	Ayrshire	Scotland	Internal reconstruction: as assistant to James Miller
Portpatrick Hotel	In year 1905	Portpatrick	Wigtownshire	Scotland	As assistant to James Kennedy Hunter

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher
Who's Who in Architecture		1914
Johnston, W T	Artists of Scotland	2003	Officina Publications CDROM
RIBA	The RIBA Kalendar 1939-1940	1939	London: Royal Institute of British Architects

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The following periodicals contain references to this person:

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Periodical Name	Publisher	Date Circ	Edition	Notes
Builder		1940/04/29	*	p394 (Obituary)
Scotsman		1940/03/18		p3 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 v6 no342 (microfiche reel 31); F no3528 (box 25)

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