Royal Scottish Academicians: John James Burnet, William Lamb, Alexander Carrick, Henry Raeburn, George Henry Paulin, William Allan

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: John James Burnet, William Lamb, Alexander Carrick, Henry Raeburn, George Henry Paulin, William Allan, Robert Rowand Anderson, Horatio McCulloch, William Hole, Anne Redpath, John Steell, James Miller, Joseph Noel Paton, Francis Cadell, Elizabeth Blackadder, James Giles, Robert Scott Lauder, John Dick Peddie, Hippolyte Blanc, Robert Gibb, David Bryce, Benno Schotz, James Kay, William Birnie Rhind, Daniel Macnee, James Guthrie, George Washington Browne, Mary Nicol Neill Armour, Ernest Stephen Lumsden, Keith Rand, James Cassie, John Faed, Alberto Morrocco, William George Gillies, Stanley Cursiter, Samuel Peploe, George Reid, George Harvey, James Archer, Robin Philipson, William McTaggart, William MacTaggart, David Young Cameron, James Eckford Lauder, William Brodie, David Payne, Thomas Faed, James Pittendrigh Macgillivray, James Lawton Wingate, John Maxwell, Walter Geikie, William Bonnar, William Cruikshank, David Michie, James Morrison, George Paul Chalmers, James Drummond, Tom Scott. Excerpt: Sir John James Burnet (1857-1938) was a Scottish Edwardian architect who was noted for a number of prominent buildings in Glasgow, Scotland and London, England. He was the son of the architect John Burnet, and later went into partnership with his father, joining an architectural firm which would become an influential force in British Modern architecture in the 20th Century. John James Burnet was born in Blythswood Hill, Glasgow on 31 May 1857. He was the youngest of the three sons of John Burnet and his wife Elizabeth Hay Bennet, who were a Congregationalist family. John James was educated in Glasgow at the Collegiate School and the Western Academy, and at Blair Lodge Academy, Polmont. He trained for two years in his father's architectural offices. His parents intended him to study at the Royal Academy Schools under Phen Spiers...