Architects

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Peddie & Washington Browne

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1895L|1896E

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06/02/1926

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06/02/1926

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1907

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John More Dick Peddie (born 1853), who had been practising alone since the death of his former partner Charles George Hood Kinnear in 1894, took George Washington Browne (also born 1853) into partnership late in 1895 or early in 1896. This formalised the loose relationship that had existed between Browne and Kinnear & Peddie for some years; some of the details of their Caledonian Station, 1890, suggest his hand. The immediate catalyst seems to have been a surge in branch bank building, particularly for the British Linen Bank. As Kinnear & Peddie's South Charlotte Street office had belonged to Kinnear, the new partnership moved to much larger premises at 8 Albyn Place late in 1896 or early in 1897.

The Peddie & Washington Browne partnership was hugely successful, enabling Browne to build a very sophisticated neo-Jacobean house, The Limes, in Blackford Road, and even accommodate Peddie's brother Walter Lockhart Dick Peddie as third partner in 1898. But soon thereafter Walter became ill and emigrated to British Columbia in the hope of recovery. He died there in 1902 and was not replaced. From about 1905 the partnership began to drift apart, although Peddie and Browne were to remain in formal partnership until 1907 and share the same office at 8 Albyn Place until 1908. Peddie had in fact been taking his side of the practice in a more Beaux-Arts and neo-Georgian direction, perhaps influenced by Frank Worthington Simon at the School of Applied Art, and began hiring some very accomplished assistants to help him do it. Of these the most important were John Wilson and James Forbes Smith. Born in 1877, Wilson had been articled to the school architect Robert Wilson and had worked under Wilson's brilliant assistant and successor, John Alexander Carfrae. Whilst in Peddie & Washington Browne's employ he published a major folio on the Petit Trianon in 1907. Smith was a year older than Wilson, born 1876 and articled to George Beattie & Son in 1891. He had obtained a place in Rowand Anderson's office at the end of his articles and had spent three years with him, concurrently taking classes at Anderson's Edinburgh School of Applied Art under Professor Frank Worthington Simon, Stewart Henbest Capper and John Watson. The date at which he joined Peddie's office is not precisely known, but was probably 1897, just slightly ahead of Wilson, and while in the office he distinguished himself by winning the Pugin Silver Medal in 1900, enabling him to travel.

Peddie continued as sole partner for some two years after the dissolution of the partnership with Browne, taking Forbes Smith into partnership in 1909.

(See separate entries on Peddie & Forbes Smith and on the individual partners for later practice history.)

'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	Date From Type	Date To	Date To Type	Notes
3 South Charlotte Street Edinburgh Scotland	Business	Early 1895L\|1896		Early 1896L\|1897
8 Albyn Place Edinburgh Scotland	Business	Early 1896L\|1897		1907

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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
Norman Aitken Dick	200875	1901/06	In year 1905	Apprentice
David John Chisholm	200772	1901/09/01	In year 1907	Apprentice
John Alistair Ross	202455	1904 or 1905	In year 1906	Assistant
John More Dick Peddie	200118	Early 1895s	In year 1907	Partner
Walter Lockhart Dick Peddie	204675	Early 1895s	In year 1898	Assistant
George Washington Browne	200049	Early 1895s	In year 1907	Partner
Cecil Scott Burgess	203446	In year 1891	In year 1895	Draughtsman
James Edwin Forbes	201215	In year 1892	In year 1896	Apprentice	Under Browne
George Donaldson Macniven	200989	In year 1894	c. 1898	Apprentice
Ramsay Traquair	201985	In year 1897	In year 1899	Assistant
John Wilson	202401	In year 1898	In year 1903	Assistant
Walter Lockhart Dick Peddie	204675	In year 1898	In year 1901	Partner
George Wittet	202059	In year 1898	In year 1902	Assistant
James Herbert Belfrage	202143	In year 1899	Before 1902	Assistant
Arthur James Marshall	202629	In year 1900	In year 1904	Assistant

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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
Forfar British Linen Bank	In year 1895	Forfar	Angus	Scotland
North Berwick Golf Clubhouse	In year 1895	North Berwick	East Lothian	Scotland	Additions
Bakery	In year 1895		Edinburgh	Scotland
British Linen Bank	In year 1895	Newcastleton	Roxburghshire	Scotland
House in Westgate	In year 1895	North Berwick	East Lothian	Scotland
Kilmory Castle	In year 1895	Lochgilphead	Argyll	Scotland	Alterations
The Lodge	In year 1895	North Berwick	East Lothian	Scotland	Minor alterations
Pinkieburn House	c. 1895	Musselburgh	Midlothian	Scotland	Library and additions
House, Abbey Feus	In year 1896	North Berwick	East Lothian	Scotland	Alterations
House, Cambuscairn	In year 1896	Cambuscairn	Dumfriesshire	Scotland
Newmills House and stables	In year 1896	Balerno	Midlothian	Scotland	Additions and alterations
Longmore Hospital for Incurables	In year 1896	Newington	Edinburgh	Scotland	Large W addition (approximately matching earlier E addition), boiler house and laundry block to rear, chapel and mortuary block to W
Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Company office	In year 1896		Edinburgh	Scotland	Rebuilding
Standard Life Assurance Co	In year 1896		Edinburgh	Scotland	New building erected
Advocates' Library	In year 1896		Edinburgh	Scotland	Bookstack building - Browne mainly responsible

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Notes
Walker, David W	Peddie and Kinnear	2002	Unpublished PhD thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002
Mays, Deborah	A Profile of Sir George Washington Browne		Architectural History 111, The Age of Mackintosh
Bailey, Rebecca M	Scottish architects' papers: a source book	1996	Edinburgh: The Rutland Press	pp133-4

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