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Dick Peddie, Todd & Jamieson
Architectural practice
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1936
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17/06/1926
1944
The partnership of Dick Peddie, Todd & Jamieson was formed in 1936, the partners being William James Walker Todd (born 1884), David John Chisholm (born 1884) and George Lindsay Auldjo Jamieson (born 1905). In that year the partnership of Jamieson & Arnott had been dissolved as a consequence of the enforced retirement of Ernest Arthur Oliphant Auldjo Jamieson through ill health. That partnership was then less busy than it had been and for reasons not entirely clear James Alexander Arnott left to practise alone. Jamieson's son, George Lindsay Auldjo Jamieson then sought a merger with J M Dick Peddie & W J Walker Todd. He brought to Dick Peddie & Walker Todd the Sydney Mitchell & Wilson archive, much of the Jamieson & Arnott archive and those clients who were his father's rather than Arnott's. In addition to the practice title of Dick Peddie, Todd & Jamieson, letterheads of that time bear the subhead 'incorporating Sydney Mitchell & Wilson' as on the Jamieson & Arnott letterheads. This appears to have been to leave no doubt that the Jamiesons had had the dominant financial interest in the Jamieson & Arnott partnership.

The practice conditions during the Second World War resulted in the merger of the Dick Peddie Todd & Jamieson and the Richardson & McKay practices in 1942, John Ross McKay having secured a lot of war work, perhaps more than he could find staff for. He quickly became the leading partner, particularly so after the death of William James Walker Todd on 29 April 1944, after which the firm continued as Dick Peddie McKay & Jamieson.

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

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AddressClassDate From Date From TypeDate ToDate To TypeNotes
Edinburgh ScotlandBusiness

Employees or Pupils

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NameName LinkDate FromDate ToPositionNotes
Thomas Stanley Aitchison Kennedy4039431936/121940/11Chief Assistant
John Ronald Beaton1004571938/071939/02Assistant
David John Chisholm200772In year 1936In year 1944Partner
David Alexander Murray206912In year 1936In year 1937Senior Assistant
William James Walker Todd201830In year 1936In year 1944Partner
George Lindsay Auldjo Jamieson202934In year 1936In year 1944Partner
Henry Alexander Patton403465In year 1937In year 1939Assistant
Peter Rice Whiston206951In year 1937In year 1938Partner
Robert Edward Thomas Stockdale204682In year 1938In year 1944Assistant
John Hardie Glover206402c. 1936c. 1936AssistantPractical experience before qualifying

Buildings and Designs

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Building NameDate StartedTown, District or VillageIslandCity or CountyCountryNotes
GlenmoreIn year 1935KilmelfordArgyllScotlandReconstruction
County BuildingsIn year 1935LinlithgowWest LothianScotland
217 Colinton RoadIn year 1935EdinburghScotland
British Linen BankIn year 1936KelsoRoxburghshireScotlandAlterations to ground floor
St James Episcopal Church HallIn year 1936LeithEdinburghScotlandChisholm mainly responsible
St Andrew and St Aidan's Episcopal ChurchIn year 1936EdinburghScotlandChurch and proposals for hall
Warehouse for Cowan & Co, West Register StreetIn year 1936EdinburghScotlandAlterations
Galashiels Liberal ClubIn year 1936GalashielsSelkirkshireScotlandRenovation
Grey HouseIn year 1936North BerwickEast LothianScotland
House for R A DicksonIn year 1936MidlothianScotland
House for W M MurphyIn year 1936North BerwickEast LothianScotland
32, 34 Melville StreetIn year 1936EdinburghScotlandAlterations
KinnairdIn year 1936GullaneEast LothianScotlandAlterations
7 St John's RoadIn year 1936LeithEdinburghScotland
Drumsheugh BathsIn year 1936EdinburghScotlandAlterations

References

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AuthorTitleDatePublisherPartNotes
Bailey, Rebecca MScottish architects' papers: a source book1996Edinburgh: The Rutland Presspp133-4