1875 – Scottish Widows, Westmoreland Street, Dublin
Architect: Thomas Newenham Deane
Orginally built in 1875 with some minor additions in 1879 for Scottish Widows, this was for many years a bank branch of AIB.
Davidson, Charles (d.1925)
Charles Davidson was born in Forfar and seems to have been an assistant to Peddie & Kinnear in Edinburgh but moved to Paisley in 1875 to work on their National Bank and Bank of Scotland commissions in St.
Fulton, James Black (1875-1922)
James Black Fulton was born at Fenwick on 11 August 1875, the son of Robert Fulton and his wife Janet Black.
Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson (1817-75)
This appreciation was reprinted in Aberdeen in 1925 by W. Jolly & Sons Ltd from the Scottish Ecclesiological Society’s Transactions by J.
The Life of Alexander Thomson (1817-75)
Thomas Gildard was an architect, an Honorary Member of the Glasgow Architectural Association, and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Architectural Section of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow.
Brydon, John McKean (1840-1901)
John McKean Brydon was born in Dunfermline in 1840 and educated at the Commercial Academy there. On 1 September 1856 he was articled to William Hardie Hay and James Murdoch Hay in Liverpool for three years and in 1860 secured a place in the office of David Bryce in Edinburgh as assistant with a home address in Picardy Place.
William Young (1843-1900)
William Young was born in Paisley in 1843 (christened 25 March), the son of James Young, bootmaker and spirit dealer, and his wife Helen Nisbet.
Thomas Hyslop Ure (1863-1913)
Thomas Hyslop Ure (generally known as T. Hyslop Ure) was born in 1863 and practised in Dunfermline. There must have been some connection with George Mackie Watson of Edinburgh who was three years older as they produced a joint design in the competition for the Carnegie Public Baths in Dunfermline.
Weir Schultz, Robert (1860-1951)
Robert Weir Schultz was born in Port Glasgow on 26 July 1860, the son of Henry Schultz, sugar refiner, and Isabella Smail Weir,
Mitchell, Arthur George Sydney (1856-1930)
Arthur George Sydney Mitchell was born at Headswood in Larbert, Stirlingshire on 1 January 1856, the only child of Dr Arthur Mitchell and his wife Margaret Hay Houston,
