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Colin Edgar McWilliam

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26/05/1926

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1928

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08/12/1989

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Woolwich, London

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Colin Edgar McWilliam was born in 1928 in Woolwich, London to Ormiston Galloway Edgar McWilliam (1893-1942) and his wife Ida Margaret Bradbury (d.1972), who had married in East Grinstead in 1923. His father was a Flight Lieutenant in the RAF and died when his plane crashed after returning from a raid.

Colin graduated in Architecture at Cambridge and after a spell at the British School in Rome moved to Scotland in late 1951 to become a draughtsman for the Scottish National Buildings Record. Around this time he assisted the architect Stewart Kaye and also practised briefly as an architect with Ian Hodkinson. In 1957 he became Assistant Secretary of the National Trust for Scotland.

From 1964 he taught History of Architecture at Heriot Watt University, based at the Edinburgh College of Art, becoming the senior lecturer and then Director of the postgraduate Conservation course. He was chairman of the Scottish Georgian Society (later Architectural Heritage Society for Scotland) and battled alongside Eleanor Robertson against the University's redevelopment proposals for George Square and the southside.

McWilliam also served as a member of the Historic Buildings Council for Scotland and the New Town Conservation Committee.

He is known for his authorship of several books including Scottish Townscape (1975) and the Buildings of Scotland volumes for Lothian (1978) and as the co-author for Edinburgh (1984). He was also the architecture correspondent for the Scotsman Newspaper.

He was an Hon. member of the RIBA and RIAS.

He died in Edinburgh on 8th December 1989 aged 61.

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position	Notes
Stewart Kaye	201720	c1950		Assistant

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Building Name	Date Started	Town, District or Village	Island	City or County	Country	Notes
St James' Episcopal Church	In year 1963	Goldenacre		Edinburgh	Scotland	Painted scheme consolidated and renewed in nave

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Part	Notes
Gifford, John, McWilliam, Colin and Walker, David M	Edinburgh (The Buildings of Scotland)	1984	Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd		p571

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Periodical Name	Publisher	Date Circ	Edition	Notes
Builder		1961/10/27		'Architectural Historians' Conference: Papers Submitted to the Edinburgh Meeting' p787 - McWilliam delivered a paper entitled 'Robert Adam in Scotland' at the SAH (UK) Conference in Edinburgh on 15-17 Sept 1961
Architectural Heritage		1990	Volume 1	An Appreciation by Kitty Cruft p.108-9

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