Architects

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Andrew Heiton (junior)

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Architect

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05/09/1823

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03/03/1894

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Andrew Heiton Junior was born on 3 April 1823 at Inchture, Perthshire, son of architect Andrew Heiton Senior and his wife Janet Lorimer. The elder Heiton was probably the clerk of works on Lord Kinnaird's Rossie Priory estate. Andrew Junior served his apprenticeship with his father, who had by then settled in Perth, and was subsequently sent to the office of Burn & Bryce for wider experience. He returned to his father's office in the mid-1840s and was taken into partnership in 1848. They jointly succeeded William MacDonald Mackenzie as City Architect of Perth on his death in 1856, but on 8 August 1858 the elder Heiton died and Andrew Heiton Junior became sole partner. In the following year John Murray Robertson, born of a strict Plymouth Brethren family in Strathord in 1844, became an apprentice; he swiftly rose to an exceptional position in the office, undertaking much of the actual designing from the later 1860s. Around 1862 William Leiper, who had been in the offices of J L Pearson and William White in London, was engaged as an assistant, the strong early French vein in the firm's work dating from that time. Leiper appears to have been in the office only briefly, however, being sent to Dublin to build Findlater Church. (The presbyterian commissions in Dublin came through Heiton's family connection with the Dublin coal importers of the same name). Later someone in the office, perhaps Heiton's younger brother Thomas Arthur Heiton, would appear to have been in Alfred Waterhouse's office as Waterhouse's style is markedly in evidence at Perth Municipal Buildings.

From the 1850s Heiton developed a very large country house and large suburban house practice. By 1865 there was so much work in hand in Dundee that a branch office was established there, and c.1868 or earlier Robertson was dispatched to Dundee to build Castleroy. The Gilroys, Heiton's clients there, having taken a liking to him, promised Robertson their support and he set up an independent practice in Dundee in 1873. Robertson's archive shows that he was responsible for building or completing Heiton's commissions in the Dundee area. Robertson also took in other farmed-out work from Perth, an arrangement that lasted at least until 1888, the Station Hotel in Perth being the last job in which Robertson had a substantial involvement.

Heiton remained 'a man of splendid physique' until he was seventy 'when the effects of old age were visibly apparent'. He never married. Probably because of his father's connection with Sir Walter Scott he was a notable collector of antiquities, particularly armour, weapons and furniture, and on inheriting the estate of Darnick turned the ancient tower house into a showplace for his collection. Although he took no other part in public life Heiton was a prominent mason, being for several years RWM of Lodge St Andrew no 74. He was admitted FRIBA on 23 June 1879, his proposers being John Honeyman, John Baird and James Salmon. In the EAA members roll of 1880 Thomas Arthur Heiton is referred to as deceased and from at least 1884 Heiton was assisted by his nephew Andrew Heiton Granger, born c.1862 who was educated at Fettes College. It is not yet known if he had experience outwith his uncle's office, but his early predilection for houses with half-timbered gables makes this seem likely. He appears to have taken over the design work of the practice in the mid-1880s, exhibiting the firm's work in his own name at the RSA between 1884 and 1886.

Andrew Heiton Junior died on 3 March 1894 at Darnick, Perth from 'congestion of the brain' and was buried in Old Greyfriars Churchyard, Perth on 5 March. His sister Margaret installed a window to the memory of her parents and her two brothers in St John's Church in that year.

Heiton's practice was continued by Granger who also succeeded to the Darnick estate and reversed his name to Andrew Granger Heiton.

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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
Darnick Kinnoull Terrace Perth Perthshire Scotland	Private					Town residence
Darnick Roxburghshire Scotland	Private					Country estate and place of death

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Address	Class	Date From	Date From Type	Date To	Date To Type	Notes
72 George Street Perth Perthshire Scotland	Business
29 Albert Square Dundee Scotland	Business

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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
A & A Heiton	201087	In year 1848	In year 1894	Partner	Did not trade under this name after , but simply under his own name
Andrew Heiton (senior)	200585	c. 1838	c. 1843	Apprentice
Burn & Bryce	100327	c. 1844	c. 1848	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
James Miller	200001	1877/07	c. 1881	Apprentice
James Wright (junior)	203577	1887/09	Before 1889/11	Apprentice
Thomas Arthur Heiton	201088	Before 1863	Before 1880
John Murray Robertson	200015	In year 1859	In year 1863	Apprentice
John Murray Robertson	200015	In year 1863	In year 1871	Senior Draughtsman
James Macintyre Henry	200309	In year 1866	In year 1870	Apprentice
James Macintyre Henry	200309	In year 1870	In year 1872	Assistant
Robert Alexander Jack	201739	In year 1876	In year 1881	Apprentice
Andrew Granger Heiton (or Andrew H Heiton Granger)	201032	In year 1884	In year 1894	Partner
John Stewart	202334	In year 1886	In year 1890	Apprentice
James Gorman	201346	In year 1893	In year 1894	Apprentice
William Leiper	200002	c. 1862	c. 1863	Assistant
Arthur Clyne	202020	c. 1873	c. 1876	Assistant
Andrew Granger Heiton (or Andrew H Heiton Granger)	201032	c. 1879	c. 1883	Apprentice
Andrew Granger Heiton (or Andrew H Heiton Granger)	201032	c. 1883	In year 1884	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 Baird the Second	100105	1879/06/23	for Fellowship
James Salmon (senior)	200029	1879/06/23	for Fellowship
John Honeyman	200245	1879/06/23	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 Murray Robertson	1888/01/23	for Fellowship
Alexander Ross	1893/01/09	for Fellowship

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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
Stations for Scottish Central Railway	c. 1846	Greenhill to Perth	Perthshire etc	Scotland
Auchterarder Free Church Manse	In year 1847	Auchterarder	Perthshire	Scotland	Plans dated 3 April 1847
Pitcairngreen Free Manse	In year 1847	Perth	Perthshire	Scotland
Bowerswell	In year 1848	Perth	Perthshire	Scotland	Attributed (HS)
Stirling Station	In year 1848	Stirling	Stirlingshire	Scotland	Original station
Stations for Scottish Midland Junction Railway	In year 1848	Perth to Forfar	Perthshire/Angus	Scotland
Stations for Aberdeen/Scottish North Eastern Railway	c. 1848	Forfar & Montrose to Aberdeen	Angus/Aberdeenshire	Scotland
Loyal House	In year 1850	Alyth	Perthshire	Scotland
Perth Joint Station	c. 1850	Perth	Perthshire	Scotland	Completed Tite's station
Perth Bank	In year 1851	Blairgowrie	Perthshire	Scotland	Designed original building - Perth Bank
Fowlis Wester Churchyard, Monument to Rev James Maxtone	In year 1851	Fowlis Wester	Perthshire	Scotland
Dunalistair	In year 1852	Fortingall	Perthshire	Scotland
Findo Gask School	In year 1853	Findo Gask	Perthshire	Scotland	Reconstruction
Gas works	In year 1854	Aberfeldy	Perthshire	Scotland
St John the Baptist RC Church	In year 1854	Perth	Perthshire	Scotland

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Part	Notes
Post Office Directories
Johnston, W T	Artists of Scotland	2003	Officina Publications CDROM
RCAHMS	Dundee on Record	1992	RCAHMS		pviii Fernhall, Dundeep40 Castleroy, Dundee
Scotlands People Website	Wills & Testaments				Perth Sheriff Court Sc49/31/156
Pride, Glen L	The Kingdom of Fife	1999	The Rutland Press	2nd Edition	p182

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The following periodicals contain references to this person:

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Periodical Name	Date Circ	Edition	Notes
RIBA Journal	1894	I	p381-2 Obituary
Dundee Advertiser	1894/03/05	*	Obituary
Perthshire Advertiser	1927/06/15	*	Obituary of Andrew Granger Heiton
Perthshire Constitutional	1894/03/05	*
Perthshire Constitutional	1894/03/07	*
Perthshire Constitutional	1927/06/15	*	Obituary of Andrew Granger Heiton
Building News	1890/08/15	*	p234 - article and portrait

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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			F v6 p2 (microfiche 93/E5) (no list of works)

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