Basic Biographical Details | Name: | Urquhart Lindsay Robertson Orchar | | Designation: | | | Born: | c. 1917 | | Died: | | | Bio Notes: | Urquhart Lindsay Robertson Orchar had its roots in Robertson & Orchar whichwas a Dundee-based mill-engineer and textile machinery manufacturing partnership with an architectural department. It was founded in 1856 when William Robertson, born 1825 and a leading draughtsman in the engineering department at Baxter Brothers, and James Guthrie Orchar, also born 1825 and then draughtsman to Steele's Lilybank Foundry, took over the Wallace Foundry of the dissolved partnership of Kinmond Hutton & Steele. It was immediately successful, being commissioned to design and build J & A D Grimond's Bowbridge Works and John Smieton's Panmure Works at Carmoustie in the following year.
James Guthrie Orchar retired in 1896 and died on 14 May 1898; William Robertson died on 11 July 1899. The business was continued by the families (in Orchar's case his wife's, his son James Steel Orchar having predeceased him) and merged with Urquhart Lindsay & Co, founded 1867, as Urquhart Lindsay Robertson Orchar after the First World War. | Private and Business Addresses| The following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes |  | Blackness and Wallace Foundries, Dundee, Scotland | Business | c. 1917 | | |
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 | | 1921 | Taybank Works, Mill and Calender | | | Dundee | Scotland | Calender |
ReferencesBibliographic References| The following books contain references to this : | | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Watson, Mark | 1990 | Jute and Flax mills in Dundee | | Tayport: Hutton Press Ltd | |
Archive References| The following archives hold material relating to this : | | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | | West Yorkshire Archives, Leeds | Fairbarin, Lawson Combe Barbour Archive | | |
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