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Thomas Reid Peacock

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20/05/1866

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11/10/1937

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Thomas Reid Peacock was born on 20 May 1866, the eldest son of Thomas Reid Peacock and Catherine Binnie (or Binny) Webster. They lived in Portobello, Edinburgh. The younger Thomas Reid Peacock was educated at Edinburgh High School. He was articled to George Washington Browne in Edinburgh in 1885, attending classes at Edinburgh School of Architecture and probably also at Heriot-Watt College. He spent his holidays measuring and sketching old buildings, including Melrose, Dryburgh and Sweetheart Abbeys. After completing his apprenticeship in 1890 he spent six years assisting in various Edinburgh offices, including those of Kinnear & Peddie and Robert Rowand Anderson - and appearing to conduct a small private practice from 34 St Andrew Square, before moving to Glasgow in 1896 to join the practice of Robert Turnbull and his son, Thomson & Turnbull, as senior assistant. This was somewhat surprising as Robert Turnbull was then embroiled in sequestration proceedings in respect of his Lenzie properties. Peacock was made junior partner in 1898, the firm then becoming Thomson, Turnbull & Peacock.

In 1901 Campbell Douglas 'found it necessary' to dissolve his partnership with Alexander Morrison, the latter's practice, nut this was quickly dissolved, the practice title returning to Thomson Turnbull & Peacock.

Robert Turnbull died on 21 October 1905. Although the practice then had two sizeable commissions for school at Bluevale and London Road in hand, Robert's death seems to have been the catalyst for Peacock deciding to emigrate to Quebec in the following year. There he joined the office of George-Emile Tanguay as head draughtsman. In 1910 he returned to Glasgow to marry Ena Stewart before commencing independent practice. Some time later he returned to Quebec. He was admitted LRIBA in 1911, his proposers being unknown as most of his papers are lost; and in 1920 was elevated to FRIBA, his proposers this time being James Macintyre Henry, Alexander Lorne Campbell, and Victor Daniel Horsburgh, who wrote in a supporting statement: 'Mr. Peacock first as assistant and laterly [sic] as principal in practice has been to my knowledge responsible for a very large portion of the best work in the city of Quebec in his time.' He was a member of the Province of Quebec Architects' Association and served for a time on its Council.

Peacock was People's Warden at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Quebec. At the time of his death after a short illness on 10 November 1937, he was also President of the Quebec Literary and Historical Society and of the St Andrew's Society.

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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
76 De Salaberry Street Quebec Canada	Private

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Address	Class	Date From	Date From Type	Date To	Date To Type	Notes
34 St Andrew Square Edinburgh Scotland	Business
122 Wellington Street Glasgow Scotland	Business
81 St Peter Street Quebec Canada	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
Wardrop & Anderson	200078	After 1890	Before 1896	Assistant
Kinnear & Peddie	202322	After 1890	Before 1896	Assistant
George Washington Browne	200049	In year 1885	In year 1890	Apprentice
Thomson & Turnbull (or A Thomson & Turnbull)	203849	In year 1896	In year 1898	Senior Assistant
Thomson, Turnbull & Peacock	203844	In year 1898	Late 1905s	Partner
George-Emile Tanguay	205249	In year 1906	In year 1910	Chief Draughtsman

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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
Robert McDowall Symonds	205682	In year 1913	In year 1916	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
Victor Daniel Horsburgh	200200	Mid 1921s	for Fellowship
James Macintyre Henry	200309	Mid 1921s	for Fellowship
Alexander Lorne Campbell	200379	Mid 1921s	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
Inglis Memorial Hall and Library	In year 1896	Edzell	Angus	Scotland	Competition design - unsuccessful
Public Hall	In year 1896			Scotland	'Proposed'
Tenements in London Road	In year 1897		Glasgow	Scotland	As senior assistant and then partner
Bridgeton Central Station and flanking tenements	In year 1897	Bridgeton Cross	Glasgow	Scotland
Villas, Glasgow Road	In year 1898	Paisley	Renfrewshire	Scotland
Kelvinbridge Artistic Stationery Works	In year 1898		Glasgow	Scotland	Addition
Gavinburn Board Schools at Clydebank	In year 1904	Old Kilpatrick	Dunbartonshire	Scotland	Additions
London Road School with lodge	In year 1905		Glasgow	Scotland
Double cottages	In year 1905	Lenzie	Dunbartonshire	Scotland
Bluevale School	In year 1906	Haghill	Glasgow	Scotland	Initial building?

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Part	Notes
Williamson, William	Robert Turnbull IA of Lenzie	2011
Post Office Directories

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The following periodicals contain references to this person:

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Periodical Name	Publisher	Date Circ	Edition	Notes
RIBA Journal		1938/10/17	v45	p1043 - 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
Professor David M Walker, notes and collection of archive material	Professor David M Walker personal archive	100041			Letter from Jean Francois Caron re Peacock 18 January 2001
RIBA Nomination Papers	RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum	100005			L v15 no1080; F no1814 (microfilm reel 15)

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