Basic Biographical Details Name: | James Scott Johnston | Designation: | | Born: | 5 September 1913 | Died: | 1 May 1989 | Bio Notes: | James Scott Johnston was born on 5 September 1913, son of George Morris Johnston, railway assistant superintendent, and his wife Catherine Brand. He served his apprenticeship with Thomas Bowhill Gibson in Edinburgh from 1931 to 1936, studying part-time at the Edinburgh College of Art and Heriot-Watt College. In the summer after he completed his apprenticeship, he secured a travelling scholarship which he used to visit Cambridgeshire, Essex and Suffolk. He then worked for two years as assistant to Gibson before moving in 1938 to Newcastle to take up a post as assistant in the City Architect's Department, the then City Architect being Robert George Roberts. He passed the final exam in December 1942 and was admitted ARIBA on 5 September 1943, his proposers being Roberts, R Norman MacKellar and P Clive Newcombe.
In 1974 he was working for the British Rail Architects Department in Glasgow, based then at Buchanan House, 58 Port Dundas Road.
He died at the Victoria Infirmary on 1 May 1989, survived by his wife Ruth Catherine Guthrie Hall. | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | | 352, Kilmarnock Road, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | | 1989 | | | 23, Glenthorn Road, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne, England | Private | 1943 * | | | | 51, Rupert Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | c. 1954 | After 1965 | | | 30, Melville Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow, Scotland | Private | Before 1970 * | After 1979 | |
* 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 | 1954 | RIBA Kalendar 1953-54 | | | | | RIBA | 1956 | Kalendar 1956-57 | | | | | RIBA | 1960 | The RIBA Kalendar 1959-1960 | 1959-1960 | | | | RIBA | 1965 | The RIBA Kalendar | | | | | RIBA | 1970 | RIBA Directory 1970 | | | | | RIBA | 1979 | Directory of members | | | |
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 no8202 (combined box 205) |
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