Name: | Charles Ernest Monro |
Designation: | |
Born: | 27 July 1874 |
Died: | 14 November 1945 |
Bio Notes: | Charles Ernest Monro was born in Glasgow on 27 July 1874 (Reg dist 644/7, entry 1361), the elder son of Glasgow architect James Milne Monro and Sarah Mary Potter and was educated at Allan Glen’s School and the Royal Technical College. He joined his father's practice, first in 1893 as an apprentice, then becoming assistant in 1898 and partner in 1903, the firm becoming J M Monro & Son. He passed the qualifying exam relatively late in 1902, although he had probably been responsible for most of the firm's Free Renaissance design work since c.1890. About this time he travelled in Scotland, England and France and possibly elsewhere on the Continent, some of his student drawings still surviving in the Monro & Partners archive. He was admitted ARIBA on 2 March 1903, his proposers being David Barclay, Horatio Kelson Bromhead and John Slater. In 1902 he also became president of the Architectural Craftsmen's Association. He married Janet Alexander Miller and they had a son, Geoffrey James Monro (born 1907) and a daughter.
Charles Ernest continued the practice after his father's death in 1921, prior to which the firm concentrated on hotel and industrial work, particularly for bakers and he was the architect of several notable factories in Glasgow, London, Aberdeen, Hertfordshire and Lancashire. In the 1920s and 1930s the firm turned to department store and shop work, chielfy for Marks & Spencer and Bayne & Duckett. His son Geoffrey James joined the firm in the early 1920s.
Charles Ernest Monro died of cerebral haemorrhage on 14 November 1945 at 'Saxonholme,'50 Manse Road, Bearsden.
(NB: Charles Ernest Monro's RIBA nomination papers are self-contradictory, giving his birth date as 27 July 1874 and yet stating that he served his apprenticeship and undertook his studies from 1883 to 1893, followed by a 'lost' decade before he was taken into partnership by his father in 1903. His biography here has been composed on the assumption that he in fact began his training ten years later than he states, as his date of birth in 1874 has been confirmed as correct.) |
The following private or business addresses are associated with this : |
| Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes |
| Saxonholme, Bearsden, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | Before 1891 | 1945 | Family home with his father still living there in the 1891 census. Given as place of death |
| 28, Bath Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | Before 1893 | 1912 | |
| 134, Bath Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1912 | 1935 | |
| 307, West George Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1935 | 1945 | |
This was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details): |
| Date started | Building name | Town, district or village | Island | City or county | Country | Notes |
| | Broomhill House | Kirkintilloch | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | Reconstruction? New build? |
| 1890(?) | Factory, Ingram Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1890(?) | Markree Castle | | | County Sligo | Eire | Alterations |
| 1890 | Victoria Bread and Biscuit Works | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Additions. |
| After 1890 | Villa | | | | Scotland | |
| 1893 | Convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor | Greenock | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | In partnership for these years for work done on Convent during these years |
| 1893 | Grand Hotel | St Andrews | | Fife | Scotland | |
| 1894 | House for James Halliday | | | | Scotland | Addition of scullery |
| 1895 | Victoria Bread and Biscuit Works | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Additions |
| 1896 | Callander Hydropathic | Callander | | Perthshire | Scotland | Alterations and additions |
| 1897 | Grand Hotel | St Andrews | | Fife | Scotland | South east rear wing extension |
| 1897 | St Joseph's Convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Chapel |
| 1898 | Alexandra Hotel | Oban | | Argyll | Scotland | Large additions, including building containing bedrooms in garden grounds of hotel |
| 1898 | Premises, Lyon Street East | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Further work |
| 1898 | Public Bar for R W Cairns | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1898 | Sausage Factory | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Further building at rear |
| 1899 | Premises for J H Simpson | Bridgeton | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1899 | Tradeston Tube Works | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1900 | Grant Arms Hotel | Grantown-on-Spey | | Morayshire | Scotland | Large addition |
| 1900 | Public House for James McFarlane | Maryhill | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1900 | Station Hotel | Oban | | Argyll | Scotland | Alterations |
| c. 1900 | Church | Dumbarton | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |
| 1901 | Alexandra Hotel | Oban | | Argyll | Scotland | Large additions, including verandah |
| 1901 | Daly's premises | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Reconstruction |
| 1901 | Double villa for Mr Daye | Bearsden | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1902 | McNaughton & Sinclair's premises | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1902 | Shop, Buchanan Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Shop fitting |
| 1902 | St Matthew's School | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Reconstruction as Industrial School |
| 1902 | Tenements at Dowanhill | Kelvinside | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1902 | Tenements for William Lightbody | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1903 | Hillcrest | Bearsden | | Glasgow | Scotland | Addition |
| 1903 | King's Arms Hotel | Stranraer | | Wigtownshire | Scotland | |
| 1903 | Premises of George Boyd & Co | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1903 | The Ridge | Bearsden | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1903 | Wellburn Convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor | Lochee | | Dundee | Scotland | Additions |
| 1904 | St Joseph's Convent of the Little Sisters of the Poor | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Further work |
| 1904 | Workshop for Clarkson Brothers | Anniesland | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1904 | Workshop for James Herbertson & Son | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1905 | 533-541 Duke Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1905 | Saxonholme | Bearsden | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1905 | Villa for Mrs Miller | Bearsden | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1906 | Callander Hydropathic | Callander | | Perthshire | Scotland | Tennis pavilion and other alterations |
| 1906 | Dreadnought Hotel | Callander | | Perthshire | Scotland | Addition |
| 1906 | McNaughton & Sinclair's premises | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations? |
| 1906 | Shop for Bayne & Duckett | | | | Scotland | |
| 1906 | Shop for Bayne & Duckett | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1906 | Tea warehouse | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1907 | 10 Walmer Crescent | Cessnock | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1907 | Country House | Woldingham | | Surrey | England | |
| 1907 | Maryhill Industrial School | Maryhill | | Glasgow | Scotland | Additions to gardener's cottage |
| 1907 | Royal Hotel | Campbeltown | | Argyll | Scotland | |
| 1907 | Shop for Mrs McKinlay | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1907 | Walmer Crescent (part), 292-308 Paisley Road West | Cessnock | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1907 | Walmer Crescent (part), 310-328 Paisley Road West | Cessnock | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1908 | Anderston Public School | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1908 | Govanhill Free Church | Govanhill | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| Before 1908 | Dennistoun Bakery | Dennistoun | | Glasgow | Scotland | Further work to 1908 |
| 1909 | Glasgow Cancer Hospital | Garnethill | | Glasgow | Scotland | Rebuilding (rebuilt from nurses' accommodation of earlier hospital) |
| 1909 | Workshop for W & J Martin | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| Early 1900s | Domestic Science School | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1910s | Design for a wash stand | | | | | |
| 1910s | Invergyle House, septic tank | Invergyle | | Stirlingshire? | Scotland | |
| 1910s | Property in West Graham Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1910 | Bearsden Primary School | Bearsden | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1910 | Bellshill Public School | Bellshill | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | |
| 1910 | Design for pavilion for James Gibbs | | | | | |
| 1910 | Hydepark Street School | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Competition entry |
| 1910 | Kelvin Motor Works | | | Glasgow | Scotland | In conjunction with Walter Robert Watson |
| c. 1910 | Bakery premises | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1911 | Drumbeg | Helensburgh | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | Alterations and additions |
| 1912 | 134-136 Buchanan Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations |
| 1912 | Tighnagar | Monifieth | | Angus | Scotland | |
| 1912 | Villa for George Duckett | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1912 | Workshop for Messrs James Herbertson & Son | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1913 | East Chapelton Home | Bearsden | | Glasgow | Scotland | Internal alterations |
| 1913 | Public bar for Thomas Gebbie | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1913 | The Manse | Milngavie | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | Proposed alterations |
| 1914 | Ravenswood | Bridge of Weir | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
| 1917 | Counting House for Messrs Inglis | Pointhouse? | | Glasgow? | Scotland | |
| 1917 | New dining hall, kitchen and lavatories | | | | Scotland | |
| 1919 | Property for Messrs James Herbertson & Son | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1919 | Property for Richard Clay & Sons | Blackfriars | | London | England | |
| 1920s | Copeland (or Copland) & Lye premises | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations to Sauchiehall Street section |
| 1920s | Design of a window | | | | | |
| 1920s | MacFarlane Lang Biscuit Factory | Tollcross | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1920 | Bearsden UP Church | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Further work |
| After 1920(?) | Factory | | | Mauritius | Mauritius | |
| After 1920(?) | Factory for Messrs D Napier & Son Ltd, repair shop | Acton | | London | England | |
| After 1920(?) | Granny Black's Restaurant | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| After 1920(?) | Tullos Factory | | | Aberdeen | Scotland | |
| c. 1920 | Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1921 | Bungalow | St Fillans | | Perthshire | Scotland | |
| 1922 | Callander Hydropathic | Callander | | Perthshire | Scotland | Interior alterations |
| 1922 | Factory for R Patterson & Son | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1924 | Alwyn | Milngavie | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |
| 1924 | Milngavie and Baldernock UF Manse | Milngavie | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |
| 1924 | St Luke's Established Church | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Reconstruction after fire |
| 1925 | Victoria Bread and Biscuit Works | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Additions |
| 1926 | Commercial building, Brunswick Street and Wilson Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1927 | Railings for house | Milngavie | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |
| 1928 | St Andrews Ambulance Association Depot | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1929 | Biscuit Works, Trafford Park, | Stretford | | Manchester | England | Extension |
| 1929 | Marks & Spencer store | | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1929 | RC College and Schools, Melville Grange Farm | Gilmerton | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Competition entry |
| 1930s | Air Training School | Prestwick | | Ayrshire | Scotland | |
| 1931 | Marks & Spencer store | Paisley | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
| 1931 | Royal Bank of Scotland | Bearsden | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1933 | Glasgow Cancer Hospital | Garnethill | | Glasgow | Scotland | Rebuilding? |
| 1934 | Marks & Spencer store | Stirling | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | |
| 1935 | Ambulance Station | Govan | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
| 1935 | Marks & Spencer store | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | In association with Robert Lutyens |
| 1935 | Marks & Spencer store | Kilmarnock | | Ayrshire | Scotland | In association with Robert Lutyens |
| 1935 | Marks & Spencer store | | | Glasgow | Scotland | In association with Robert Lutyens |
| 1936 | 59-63 High Street | Falkirk | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | |
| 1936 | Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Extension |
| 1936 | Marks & Spencer store | | | Dundee | Scotland | In association with Robert Lutyens |
| 1936 | Marks & Spencer store | 59 High Street, Falkirk | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | In association with Robert Lutyens |
| 1936 | Warehouse and offices for Marks and Spencer | Greenock | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | |
| 1937 | Aircraft Factory for Blackburn and Donny | Dumbarton | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | |
| 1937 | Blackburn Aircraft Company | Brough | | Yorkshire | England | Administration block and canteen |
| 1937 | Premises for Ruston Bucyros Ltd | Lincoln | | Lincolnshire | England | |
| 1938 | Queen's College | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Substantial additions |
| 1938 | Warehouse for Marks & Spencer Ltd | Kirkcaldy | | Fife | Scotland | In association with Robert Lutyens |
| c. 1938 | De Haviland Factory | Hatfield | | Hertfordshire | England | Won competition to secure job |
| Late 1930s | Atholl Hydropathic Establishment | Pitlochry | | Perthshire | Scotland | Additions and alterations |
| Late 1930s | Marks & Spencer's store | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | |
| 1941 | Royal Hotel | Campbeltown | | Argyll | Scotland | Further work |
| 1949 | Premises for Ruston Bucyros Ltd | Lincoln | | Lincolnshire | England | Extension |