Basic Biographical Details Name: | John Abercromby Arthur | Designation: | | Born: | | Died: | Late 1984 | Bio Notes: | John Abercromby Arthur was articled to Robert Stodart Lorimer for four years from September 1915, remaining as draughtsman for a further two-and-a-half years. Throughout this period he attended morning classes at Edinburgh College of Art, and he studied there full-time in 1922-3, receiving his diploma in the latter year. He then spent two months travelling in southern England, producing '20 sheets of measured drawings of Gothic and Renaissance stonework, woodwork & ironwork'. His movements over the ensuing three years are not known but he passed the qualifying exam in London in July 1926, enabling him to be admitted ARIBA on 29 November that year, his proposers being Lorimer, Walter Tapper and John Begg. By that time he had joined Tapper as assistant, and was living at 67 Torrington Square, London.
Arthur returned to Edinburgh sometime before 1950 and was living at 11 Rosebank Road about that time. In about 1955 he was Regional Architect with British Railways, his business address being given as St Enoch's Station. He was still in this post in 1960 but gave his home address in the 1965 directory suggesting he had retired by that date.
He died at the end of 1984. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | 67, Torrington Square, London WC, England | Private | 1926 * | | | | 11, Rosebank Rod, Edinburgh, Scotland | Private(?) | 1950 * | | | | 16, Thorn Road, Bearsden, Dunbartonshire, Scotland | Private | Before 1965 | After 1970 | |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
Employment and TrainingEmployers* earliest date known from documented sources.
RIBARIBA Proposers
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this : | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | RIBA | 1950 | The RIBA Kalendar 1950-1951 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this : | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | A no3969 (box 5) |
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