Basic Biographical Details Name: | Thomas Craigie Marwick | Designation: | | Born: | 10 February 1878 | Died: | 4 March 1965 | Bio Notes: | Thomas Craigie Marwick was born on 10 February 1878, the son of Edinburgh architect Thomas Purves Marwick and his wife Alexandrina Steven. He was articled to his father in 1898, attending the Edinburgh School of Applied Art and Heriot-Watt College, and remained with his father after completing his apprenticeship. He was admitted LRIBA in the mass intake of 20 July 1911, proposed by James Bow Dunn and the Edinburgh Architectural Association, of which Marwick had been a member since 1903. His travels prior to that time had included tours of England, France and Belgium, and later he would visit Italy and Greece. In about 1907 Marwick became an assistant in his father's practice and in about 1917 he was taken into partnership, the firm name becoming T P Marwick & Son. In 1919 he entered the Dail Mail Ideal Homes competition in assocation with an unidentified 'Gray' but no other record of this association is yet known. He continued the practice under the same name T P Marwick & Son as sole partner after his father's death on 26 June 1927.
Thomas Craigie Marwick died on 4 March 1965 at his home, 1 Church Hill, Edinburgh. He had been married twice, first to Elizabeth Gardiner and second to Freda Day Scott.
Thomas Craigie's son Thomas Waller Marwick was born in 1903 or 1904 and educated at George Watson's College. He was articled to the family firm and made a ten-week study tour of the USA and Canada in 1928 prior to taking the course at the Architectural Association in London from which he passed the qualifying exam in 1931. He rejoined his father as an assistant in that year and was taken into partnership in 1935. His London background no doubt had a great deal to do with the highly accomplished modernism of the firm's work in the 1930s, culminating in his being invited to undertake a major role in the design of the Glasgow Empire Exhibition of 1938. The sheer quality of the firm's work at that time has been attributed in part to the Rutland prize-winner Philip McManus, who had studied the work of Duiker and Dudok in Holland, and David ('Speedy') Harvey who was a brilliant draughtsman and perspectivist, but McManus left in 1937 to become a planner in Cape Town, South Africa. While Harvey must have borne the main responsibility of the Empire Exhibition, the individual roles of Marwick, McManus and Harvey have still to be satisfactorily sorted out. Whatever the role of the latter, the Marwicks must have been committed modernists for such adventurous designs to be accepted by their corporate clients. In the event their modernism cost them the business of the National Bank, which sought a more conservative design from Leslie Grahame-Thomson. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | 14, Thirlestane Road, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private | 1911 * | | | | 43, York Place, Edinburgh, Scotland | Business | Before 1911 | May 1929 | | | Westgate/1, Churchill, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private | c. 1926 | | | | 54, Northumberland Street, Edinburgh, Scotland | Business | May 1929 | 1939 or after 1940 | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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Buildings and DesignsThis 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 | | | House, 1 Suffolk Road | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Addition of garage - date unknown | | 1899 | National Bank of Scotland, Glenluce Branch | Glenluce | | Wigtownshire | Scotland | Possibly involved, as assistant to his father T P Marwick | | 1899 | National Bank of Scotland, Gorgie Branch | Gorgie | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Possibly involved, as apprentice to his father T P Marwick | | 1901 | National Bank of Scotland, Trongate | | | Glasgow | Scotland | As assistant to his father T P Marwick | | c. 1901 | St Cuthbert's Co-operative Association Premises | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Probably involved, as apprentice/assistant to his father T P Marwick | | 1904 | National Bank of Scotland, Portobello Branch | Portobello | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Probably involved, as assistant to his father T P Marwick | | 1904 | National Bank of Scotland, Sauchiehall Street Branch | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations - probably involved, as assistant to his father T P Marwick | | 1908 | Gresham Life Assurance and Merchant Company offices | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | As assistant to his father T P Marwick | | 1909 | St Cuthbert's Co-operative Association Slaughterhouses and Cattle Depot | Gorgie | | Edinburgh | Scotland | As assistant | | 1911 | National Bank of Scotland, Fort William Branch | Fort William | | Inverness-shire | Scotland | Probably involved, as assistant to his father T P Marwick | | 1912 | Whitefoord House | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Additions and alterations | | After 1912 | New premises at Piersfield | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | | | After 1912 | St Cuthbert's Co-operative Society Garage, Semple Street | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | | | After 1912 | St Cuthbert's Co-operative Society model bakery | Fountainbridge | | Edinburgh | Scotland | | | 1913 | Callander House | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Alterations in conjunction with Scottish Naval and Military Veterans' Residence | | 1914 | St Cuthbert's Co-operative Association Department Store and Dairy | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Further extension and dairy | | 1919 | Daily Mail ideal workers' houses, Northern industrial area | | | | England | Competition design | | After 1920 | Star Hotel | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Unspecified work for Messrs Cranston & Elliot | | 1922 | St Cuthbert's Wholesale Co-operative Association, dairy block | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | | | 1924(?) | Logie House | Forres | | Morayshire | Scotland | Reconstruction | | 1925 | St Cuthbert's Co-operative Association Block of Shops and Hoses | Corstorphine | | Edinburgh | Scotland | | | 1926 | St Cuthbert's Wholesale Co-operative Association Headquarters | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | New main doorway and internal alterations | | Early 1920s | Seamill Hydropathic | Seamill | | Ayrshire | Scotland | Extensive additions | | 1930 | St Cuthbert's Wholesale Co-operative Society Funeral Department | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | | | 1930 | Whitefoord House | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Further work | | c. 1930 | Cinema in Stockbridge | Stockbridge | | Edinburgh | Scotland | | | c. 1930 | Merleton, Boswall Road | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Proposed addition of smoking room | | 1935 | St Cuthbert's Co-operative Association Store, New Building | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | | | 1935 | St Cuthbert's Co-operative Society Furniture Showroom | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | | | 1935 | Temporary National Bank of Scotland Headquarters | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Lost commission for permanent headquarters as a more conservative design was required | | 1935 | Whitefoord House | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Recontruction | | 1936(?) | Premises for Jays the Furnishers | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | | | 1936 or 1937 | Glasgow Empire Exhibition, Atlantic Restaurant | Bellahouston | | Glasgow | Scotland | In collaboration with Thomas Smith Tait | | 1936 or 1937 | Glasgow Empire Exhibition, Garden Club and Lucullus Restaurant | Bellahouston | | Glasgow | Scotland | In collaboration with Thomas Smith Tait | | 1936 or 1937 | Glasgow Empire Exhibition, Physical Fitness Pavilion | Bellahouston | | Glasgow | Scotland | In collaboration with Thomas Smith Tait | | 1937 | Eagle Star Insurance Offices | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Original design modified by city planners; not constructed until 1955 | | 1937 | Glasgow Empire Exhibition, Cascade and Rotunda Shopping Centre | Bellahouston | | Glasgow | Scotland | In collaboration with Thomas Smith Tait | | 1937 | Shop front for Page & McGregor | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | | | 1937 | Shops, 16 and 18 Bridgeton Cross | Bridgeton | | Glasgow | Scotland | Survey plans? | | 1937 | St Cuthbert's Co-operative Association Department Store and Dairy | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Modern extension for furniture store - see separate entry | | 1938 | Co-op Shop | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | | | 1939 | Livingstone Institute and Medical Missionary Society's premises | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Unspecified work |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this : | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Daily Mail | 1919 | Daily Mail ideal (workers) homes: Northern industrial area | | London: Associated Newspapers | | | Miles Glendinning, Diane Watters, David Whitham | | Docomomo Scotland Leaflet | | | p227 Image of St Cuthbert's Co-operative Society on Bread Street | | RIBA | 1939 | The RIBA Kalendar 1939-1940 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this : | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | H M Register House | Death Register | | | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | L v19 no1452; F no3042 (box 16) |
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