Architects

Name:

John Innes

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Architect

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06/07/1912

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04/04/1926

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1970

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John Innes was born on 7 June 1912 at 4 Drumdryan Street, Edinburgh, the son of John Innes, police constable, and his wife Annie Underwood. He studied the Intermediate course at Edinburgh School of Architecture from 1930 to 1935 whilst working as a draughtsman for Scott Morton. He progressed to the diploma course in 1935, receiving his diploma in 1937 and spending some nine months of that year travelling in France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and elsewhere. He spent the following academic session lecturing part-time in Interior Design at Edinburgh School of Art and working as an assistant first to Reginald Fairlie and then it appears in Jedburgh Burgh Architect's Department and in 1938 moving to Edinburgh City Architect's Department. He was admitted ARIBA on 10 January 1938, his proposers being Fairlie, John F Matthews and Alex Allan Foote.

Innes left the City Architect's office in 1940 to undertake military service, attaining the rank of Major G S O II and working on factory construction in India. This led him to be appointed Chief Architect to the Government of Bengal in 1943, a position he still held at the time of his election as FRIBA in 1949.

Innes emigrated to South Africa where he was registered in 1953. He was a member of the Orange Free State Institute of Architects as well as the Transvaal Institute. In 1960 Innes was working in Pretoria for Corrigall Crickmay & Partners but had become a partner in the mid-1960s as Everest (Arthur Leslie Rutland Everest), Innes & Price-Hughes (Glynn Price Hughes) which became Everest & Innes by 1970. He was still practising in this partnership in 1972. He is not listed in the RIBA directory for 1979.

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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
11 Eltringham Gardens Edinburgh Scotland	Private					Gave this as his residential address even when working in India.

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Address	Class	Date From	Date To	Notes
Government Architect's Office, Writers Buildings Calcutta India	Business	1943	After 1949
PO Box 330 Kroonstad Orange Free State South Africa	Business	1959		Suggests he had projects in this area but not an office.
411-14 Permanent Buildings Paul Kruger Street Pretoria South Africa	Business	1960		Corrigall, Crickmay & Partners
513 National Building Church Square pretoria South Africa	Business	1963	After 1965
415 National Buildings Church Square Pretoria South Africa	Business	1970		Everst & Innes
729-730 Van Erkon Building Pretorius Street Pretoria South Africa	Business	1972

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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
Scott Morton & Co (later Scott Morton & Tynecastle Co Ltd; finally Scott Morton Ltd)	200966	In year 1930	In year 1935	Draughtsman
Reginald Francis Joseph Fairlie	200253	In year 1938	In year 1938	Assistant
Edinburgh City Architect's Department (Edinburgh Corporation)	201964	In year 1938	In year 1940	Assistant
Ebenezer James MacRae	200699	In year 1938	In year 1940	Assistant	In Edinburgh City Architect's Department

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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
Reginald Francis Joseph Fairlie	200253	1938/01/10	for Associateship
Alexander Allan Foote	201197	1938/01/10	for Associateship
John F Matthews	204490	1938/01/10	for Associateship
Bernard Frank Matthews	207226	1949/02/08	For Fellowship
Charles Geoffrey Blomfield	404595	1949/02/08	For Fellowship
Francis Berrington Blomfield	404594	1949/02/08	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	Island	City or County	Country	Notes
Head Rigg Housing	In year 1935	Jedburgh		Roxburghshire	Scotland

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Notes
Cruft, Kitty, Dunbar, John and Fawcett, Richard	Borders (The Buildings of Scotland)	2006	New Haven and London: Yale University Press	p433
South African Institute of Architects	South African Institute of Architects Year Book	1959		Per Roger Fisher
RIBA	Kalendar 1960-61	1961
RIBA	RIBA Directory 1970	1970
RIBA	The RIBA Kalendar 1950-1951	1950	London: Royal Institute of British Architects

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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			A no6623 (stored under F4429, combined box 13); F no4429 (combined box 13)
Statutory births	National Archives (via Scotlands People)	201045

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