Architects

Name:

Stewart, Tough & Alexander

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Architectural practice

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20/06/1926

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1899

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20/06/1926

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1945

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Bio Notes :

James Brown Stewart practised in Greenock in the 1880s and 1890s. In 1883 he was taken into partnership by William Gilmour Wilson but by 1893 the practice seems to have run out of work and the partnership was dissolved. Stewart had good connections in Greenock and Port Glasgow and continued to practise on his own.

James Montgomerie Alexander, born Greenock on 8 October 1874 was articled to Stewart in 1893 and attended classes at Glasgow School of Art. In 1898 Alexander left at the end of his apprenticeship to gain wider experience with James Milne Monro in Glasgow, but was invited to return to the practice as a partner in the same year. The partnership must have prospered as in the following year the older and more experienced Joseph John Tough, born 1870 and also from Greenock, was invited to become a partner, the practice name now becoming Stewart Tough & Alexander. Tough had been articled to William Leiper in Glasgow in 1888 and had remained with him as an assistant, attending classes at Glasgow School of Art, the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College and Greenock School of Art.

Tough and Alexander were both admitted LRIBA in the mass intake of 20 July 1911. Tough died in 1927. Alexander appears to have continued the practice under the same title of Stewart, Tough & Alexander thereafter. He disappears from the Greenock Post Directories in c.1940. It appears that at some point in the later 1940s the practices of Boston Menzies & Morton (then being run by a Mr Stirling) and Stewart Tough & Alexander were merged and Douglas Lindsay Crawford who had joined the practice in 1928 as an assistant became a partner. In 1944 he was joined by John Tonner and in 1950 by James Neil at which point the name of the practice changed to Crawford & Neil.

'Biography authored by the Dictionary of Scottish Architects Compilation Team.'

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The following private or business addresses are associated with this person:

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Address	Class	Date From	Date From Type	Date To	Date To Type	Notes
2 Hamilton Street Greenock Renfrewshire Scotland	Business	1905 or 1906		1937 or 1938		Or possibly one year later.

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The following individuals were employed or trained by this person (click on an item to view details):

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position
John Mackie Venters	203548	1904/08/02	1909/08/02	Apprentice
John Mackie Venters	203548	1909/08/02	1910/11/09	Assistant
Edward Stanley Carden	403588	1925/09/08	1934/09/29	Apprentice
John Bolton	401172	1928/03/12	1933/03/30	Apprentice
John Tonner	100489	1944/07/07	After 1945	Partner
James Montgomerie Alexander	100019	In year 1899		Partner
Joseph John Tough	100026	In year 1899		Partner
John Paterson Graham	206609	In year 1915	In year 1916	Assistant
Robert McNab (or Robert Macnab)	205659	In year 1919	In year 1923	Apprentice
Douglas Lindsay Crawford	205981	In year 1928	In year 1944	Assistant
John Bolton	401172	In year 1933	In year 1936	Assistant
Douglas Lindsay Crawford	205981	In year 1944	c. 1950	Partner

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Part	Notes
Who's Who in Architecture		1926
Walker, Frank Arneil	South Clyde Estuary: An Illustrated Architectural Guide to Inverclyde and Renfrew	1986			p139

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