Basic Biographical Details Name: | J M Dick Peddie & Forbes Smith | Designation: | | Born: | 1909 | Died: | 1917 | Bio Notes: | Following the dissolution of his partnership with George Washington Browne, John More Dick Peddie (born 1853) worked for some two years as sole partner before taking James Forbes Smith (born 1876) into partnership in 1909, Smith having joined the office as assistant c.1897. The following year John Wilson (born 1877), an accomplished assistant who had been in the office for a similar period of time to Smith, left to become architect to the Local Government Board. Although Peddie never sought admission to the RIBA - he was a member of the Society of Architects - Smith applied for Licentiateship in January 1911, his proposers being John Watson, Ramsay Traquair and Alexander Hunter Crawford, and was admitted in March of that year.
The partnership of Peddie & Forbes Smith was dissolved in 1917. The reasons have not been recorded but at that date the practice had little or no business and high overheads retaining the office at 8 Albyn Place. Smith continued in practice on his own account for a few years, apparently unsuccessfully, and it is not yet known what became of him. Peddie continued the practice alone until January 1920 when he merged it with that of two former assistants, William James Walker Todd and Sydney Houghton Miller, as J M Dick Peddie & W J Walker Todd.
(See separate entries on J M Dick Peddie & W J Walker Todd and on the individual partners for later practice history.) | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | 8, Albyn Place, Edinburgh, Scotland | Business | 1909 | 1917 | |
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe 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 | pp133-4 | | Post Office Directories | | | | | |
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