Basic Biographical Details

Name:	William Gauldie
Designation:
Born:	1875
Died:	4 October 1945
Bio Notes:	William Gauldie was born in 1875 at Kinnell, Angus, and educated at Harris Academy, Dundee. He was articled to a Dundee architect, William Mitchell, who had very little business. When Mitchell gave up practice Gauldie continued his apprenticeship with Charles and Leslie Ower whose chief assistant William Gillespie Lamond influenced his work strongly until well into the 1920s. At the end of his apprenticeship he spent a year in the architectural department of the iron founders and mill engineers Robertson Orchar who then supplied buildings as well as textile machinery. In 1898 Gauldie opened his own practice at 23 Panmure Street, Dundee his first job being the Physical Laboratory at Dundee High School, where he had taken over from McCulloch. This was followed by the first of a long series of alterations and extension in High Street and Commercial Street for D M Brown, gradually forming the buildings there into a very large department store. Much of his early work consisted of ship interiors. The practice moved to 26 Commercial Street in 1905 and in 1908 (W.S. Gauldie) or 1909 (Bailey), Gauldie's cousin Robert Leuchars Hardie was taken into partnership. Hardie had trained with an untraced uncle in North Berwick and subsequently in Edinburgh. William Careless (or Carless), an assistant to the City Architect's Department, assisted in the evenings when the practice was too busy until his departure for Canada in 1911 or 1912. Hardie died in 1924 and David Sharpe was taken on first as assistant and then from 1927 as partner. Born in 1877, Sharpe had been articled to James Graham Fairley from 1892 to 1896 and had attended Heriot-Watt College, thereafter working as assistant to Peter Whitecross of Prestonpans from 1896 to 1898, and to Alexander Wood Macnaughtan in Edinburgh until Macnaughtan's death in 1911. In that year he moved to Dundee, working as an assistant in the office of Thomas Martin Cappon, perhaps with a view to partnership or commencing independent practice, as he was admitted LRIBA in 1912. He secured the appointment of Master of Works to Dundee Parish Council in 1920, remaining in that post until joining Gauldie. Sharpe died in December 1933, having been responsible for the new block at Mayfield Hostel and for the Masonic Hall in Tay Street (he was a prominent freemason). Gauldie continued as sole partner under the existing name of Gauldie & Sharpe until c.1938 when he took Arthur Wright into partnership. Gauldie died on 4 October 1945. His son William Sinclair Gauldie, born on 29 December 1918 and trained with Frank Thomson, then took over the practice. The elder Gauldie left estate of £2,307 4s 6d. William Gauldie was described by his son as being at his best when the commission called for 'ingenuity and economy in planning and construction… his services were much in demand for alteration work'. Part of his success was based on his engaging personality, a client of fifty years' standing observing of him that 'to know him even in some slight degree was to love him'. In his earlier years the Stirling architect and furniture historian John W Small was a close friend and for a time a partnership was considered. The firm's domestic work was in a pleasant Voysey-inspired style, the more ambitious houses having Lorimer derived details. Most of these were in and around Invergowrie from 1913 onward.

Private and Business Addresses

The following private or business addresses are associated with this :
	Address	Type	Date from	Date to	Notes
	The Ha'en, Station Road, Invergowrie, Perthshire/Angus, Scotland	Private
	23, Panmure Street, Dundee, Scotland	Business	1898	1905
	26, Commercial Street, Dundee, Scotland	Business	1905	After 1939

Employment and Training

Employers

The following individuals or organisations employed or trained this (click on an item to view details):
	Name	Date from	Date to	Position	Notes
	William Mitchell	1892	Before 1897	Apprentice
	C & L Ower	After 1892	1897	Apprentice
	Robertson & Orchar	1897	1898	Assistant	Year in Architectural department
	Gauldie & Hardie	1908 or 1909	1924	Partner
	Gauldie Hardie & Sharpe	1927	1945	Partner	As sole partner but retaining the name Gauldie Hardie & Sharpe

Employees or Pupils

The following individuals were employed or trained by this (click on an item to view details):
	Name	Date from	Date to	Position	Notes
	David Sharpe	1924	1927	First Assistant

Buildings and Designs

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
	1898	Physics Laboratory, Dundee High School			Dundee	Scotland
	1899	D M Brown's Department Store			Dundee	Scotland	Major extensions and alterations
	1899	Dundee High School			Dundee	Scotland	Proposal for observatory dome 9 feet in diameter on school roof - not executed
	1902	Market Cross	Culross		Fife	Scotland	New shaft and head, and restoration of base - executant architect (J W Small was the designer)
	1904	19 Lammerton Terrace			Dundee	Scotland
	1907	House	Letchworth		Herefordshire	England
	1908	Rossleigh's premises			Dundee	Scotland
	1908	St Andrew's Hall			Dundee	Scotland	Remodelling of earlier building
	1909	Interior fittings of SS Ardmore
	1910	Tannadice Park			Dundee	Scotland	pavilion
	1911	12-14 Murraygate			Dundee	Scotland	Reconstruction from eighteenth century house
	1911	Auchoyle	Barnhill		Dundee	Scotland
	1912	Station Crescent	Invergowrie		Perthshire/Angus	Scotland	Nos 7-13
	1914	Office for Robertson Orchar, Brown Constable Street			Dundee	Scotland
	1920	Red Court, house, coachhouse, stable, lodge and laundry	West Ferry		Dundee	Scotland	Billiard room wing
	1923	Easter Mylnefield Estate			Perthshire	Scotland	Layout for feuing and several houses
	1924	16 Station Road	Invergowrie		Perthshire	Scotland
	1924	Station Crescent	Invergowrie		Perthshire/Angus	Scotland	Nos 2-6 and 16
	1924	Villa, 365 Blackness Road			Dundee	Scotland
	c. 1924	Houses on Carbet Castle site, Camphill Road	Broughty Ferry		Dundee	Scotland
	1927	12 and 14 Station Road	Invergowrie		Perthshire	Scotland
	1927	Terrace of villas, Norrie Street			Dundee	Scotland
	1929	Housing for Perth County Council, Invergowrie	Invergowrie		Perthshire/Angus	Scotland
	1929	Housing for Perth County Council, Kilspindie	Kilspindie		Perthshire	Scotland
	1929	Housing for Perth County Council, Longforgan	Longforgan		Perthshire	Scotland
	1929	Housing for Perth County Council, Pitroddie	Pitroddie		Perthshire	Scotland
	1930	Hostel for Teachers' Training			Dundee	Scotland
	1930	Semi-detached villas, 47 & 49, 51 & 53 Monifieth Road	Broughty Ferry		Dundee	Scotland
	After 1930	Carselea, Easter Mylnefield	Invergowrie		Perthshire	Scotland	Alterations
	1932	Mayfield			Dundee	Scotland	New block
	c. 1932	Old Bank Restaurant			Dundee	Scotland
	1935	D M Brown's Department Store			Dundee	Scotland	Major extensions and alterations
	1938	St Ninian's Episcopal Mission Church	Mid Craigie		Dundee	Scotland	On his own by this date though apparently still using the firm name

References

Bibliographic References

The following books contain references to this :
	Author(s)	Date	Title	Part	Publisher	Notes
	Bailey, Rebecca M	1996	Scottish architects' papers: a source book		Edinburgh: The Rutland Press

Periodical References

The following periodicals contain references to this :
	Periodical Name	Date	Edition	Publisher	Notes
	Builder	17 October 1924			Obituary of Hardy
	Dundee Advertiser	21 December 1933			Obituary of Sharpe
	RIBA Journal	27 January 1934	v41	London: Royal Institute of British Architects	p316 - obituary of Sharpe

Archive References

The following archives hold material relating to this :
	Source	Archive Name	Source Catalogue No.	Notes
	Professor David M Walker personal archive	Professor David M Walker, notes and collection of archive material		Information from manuscript notes by William S Gauldie, made c.1954, and other recollections communicated verbally