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Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott

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23/10/1865

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02/10/1945

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Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott was born on 23 October 1865 at Beard's Hill, St Peter's, near Ramsgate in Kent, the second of the ten children of Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott Senior and his wife Martha Waters. His father was Scottish with extensive sheep farming interests in Australia and his mother was of Huguenot descent. The family subsequently moved to Worthing where Baillie Scott was sent to school with a view to going to Cambridge University, but in the event his father sent him to the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester in October 1883 with the aim of sending him out to Australia to look after the family interests there. He graduated in December 1885 with honours in science and drawing, but during a spell in London arranging his passage he decided to become an architect rather than a farmer. He was articled to Major Charles E Davis of Bath from 1886 to 1889, in which year he married Florence Nash and made a wedding trip to the Isle of Man. There he found employment with a local surveyor Frederick Saunderson who was planning a large housing development at Onchan. This was never realised but from 1892 Baillie Scott established a significant domestic practice which received extensive coverage in 'The Studio' from 1895. These resulted in numerous commissions by mail from clients all over England and a significant number from continental clients.

He moved his practice to Fenlake Manor, Bedford, in 1901, the year in which he won the Haus eines Kunstfreundes ('House for an Art Lover') competition, giving him a still wider European reputation for highly sophisticated arts and crafts houses. In 1905 the volume of business caused him to take on as assistant Arthur Edgar Beresford, born in 1881 near Alderley Edge, Cheshire, who had been articled to Massey Thompson in that town in 1895 and had remained with them as an assistant: according to Beresford's own account he was selected from a number of applicants because of his experience in restoring old houses.

In 1906 Baillie Scott spread his fame still wider by publishing 'Houses and Gardens', in which he illustrated his best work and set out his ideas on house planning and design with a marked emphasis on function and materials: it was followed in 1910 by 'Garden Suburbs, Town Planning and Modern Architecture' with Raymond Unwin. The timing of the publications was fortunate as in 1911 all his practice records were destroyed in a fire at the Bedford office.

In 1919 Baillie Scott re-established his practice in London in partnership with Beresford. Although to some degree modernised, his later houses remained faithful to the arts and crafts ideals and were the subject of a completely new and much larger 'Houses and Gardens' volume published in 1933.

The London office of Baillie Scott and Beresford was destroyed in the Blitz in 1941, together with all the later practice records. Baillie Scott died at Brighton on 10 February 1945.

Information on Baillie Scott and his siblings (courtesy of descendant Mr Hamish Wilson)

Katherine Helen Scott born 19.12.1864, married 14.06.1900 to Michael J. Tighe, died 1949

Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott born 23.10.1865, married 16.02.1889 to Florence K.
Nash, died 10.02.1945

Annie Martha G. Scott born 24.04.1867, married 1905 to Major Pritchard

William Samuel Scott born 1868, died 21.03.1959

Roderick Mackenzie Scott, born 1870 married 17.01.1903 to Hellen Llewelyn, died 25.04.1954

Evelyn Jane Mackay Scott born 1872, married 1916 to Harold B. Richings, died 25.02.1954

Georgina Barbara Maud Scott born 1875, died 18.11.1957

Mary Sarah Caroline Scott born 00.09.1877, married to Arthur Bridges, died 30.10.1954

Martha Jessie Scott born 1879, died the same year.

Esme Margaret Agnes Scott born 28.03.1881, married 1916 to J. Gilbert Harvey, died 01.06.1964

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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
Red House Douglas Isle of Man England	Private					Built for himself
Fenlake Manor Bedford Bedfordshire England	Private/business

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Address	Class	Date From	Date From Type	Date To	Date To Type	Notes
Fenlake Manor Bedford Bedfordshire England	Private/business	1901		1904

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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
Charles Edward Davis	202625	In year 1886	In year 1889	Apprentice
Frederick Saunderson	203717	In year 1889	In year 1892	Assistant
Baillie Scott & Beresford	203719	In year 1919	In year 1941	Partner

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position	Notes
Arthur Edgar Beresford	203718	In year 1905	In year 1919	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
Red House	In year 1892		Douglas	Isle of Man	for himself
The White House	In year 1899	Helensburgh	Dunbartonshire	Scotland
House for an Art Lover	In year 1900		Glasgow	Scotland	Competition designs - second prize
Sandford Cottage	In year 1902	Wormit	Fife	Scotland	Original building, in brick and thatch
Sandford Cottage	1909 or 1910	Wormit	Fife	Scotland	Addition of west wing
Sandford Cottage	In year 1912	Wormit	Fife	Scotland	Complete reconstruction following fire: house roughcast with red tile roof
Country house, Valley Drive	In year 1928	Leslie	Fife	Scotland
Proposed house	c. 1933	Troon	Ayrshire	Scotland
Sandford Cottage	In year 1936	Wormit	Fife	Scotland	Consultant for alterations (T L Gray as executant architect)

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Notes
British Architectural Library, RIBA	Directory of British Architects 1834-1914	2001
Baillie Scott, Mackay Hugh	Houses and Gardens	1906	(Second edition, Woodbridge: Antique Collectors' Club, 1933)
Unwin, Raymond and Baillie Scott, Mackay Hugh	Garden Suburbs, Town Planning and Modern Architecture	1910
Haigh, Diane	Baillie Scott: The Artistic House	1995	London: Academy Editions
Kornwolf, James D	M H Baillie Scott and the Arts and Crafts Movement	1975	Baltimore and London: John Hopkins Press	This states that Baillie Scott was the eldest of fourteen children but this is incorrect. The error has been repeated in other publications.
Slater, John Gregory	Mackay H B Scott: an architectural history	1995

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The following periodicals contain references to this person:

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Periodical Name	Date Circ	Edition	Notes
RIBA Journal	1945/03	*	Obituary p143 (by A Edgar Beresford)
Builder	1945/02/16	*	Obituary
The Studio	1945/07	*	Obituary
The Studio	1938	*	Article by John Betjeman

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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
Censuses	Census records online	201011
Information sent via \'Contact Us\' on website	Courtesy of Mr Hamish C Wilson, descendant of Baillie Scott	201664			Sent 16 December 2015

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