Scottish architects

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 136. Chapters: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Thomas Telford, Robert Adam, William Chambers, Peter Nicholson, James Gibbs, William Adam, Sir William Bruce, 1st Baronet, of Balcaskie, Charles Cameron, George Fowler Jones, Robert Mylne, John James Burnet, Alexander Thomson, William Schaw, Thomas S. Tait, Basil Spence, Patrick Geddes, Adam Menelaws, Colen Campbell, G. Topham Forrest, Frederick Walters, Malcolm Fraser, John Lessels, John Mylne, James Smith, William Mylne, Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, John Burnet, James Craig, Robert Rowand Anderson, George Meikle Kemp, William Hay, James Hoey Craigie, MacGibbon and Ross, George Ashdown Audsley, Maxwell Ayrton, George Henry Walton, Ninian Comper, Alexander Edward, James Miller, Archibald Leitch, William Henry Playfair, James Fergusson, William MacDowall, Ian Gordon Lindsay, Colin Campbell, 7th Earl Cawdor, John Adam, James Thomson, Robert Drummond of Carnock, Percy Erskine Nobbs, Robert Matthew, Edith Hughes, Thomas Hamilton, John Dick Peddie, William Heste, Robert Lorimer, Hippolyte Blanc, William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness, John Cathles Hill, Alexander George Robertson Mackenzie, Alexander Marshall Mackenzie, George McRae, Walter Newall, John Stuart McCaig, Royal Scottish Academy, David Bryce, Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, Sydney Mitchell, George Henderson, Charles Wilson, David Cunningham, 1st Baronet of Auchinhervie, George Washington Browne, John Rhind, J. J. Stevenson, Robert Cochrane, James MacLaren, John More Dick Peddie, William Kininmonth, Frederick Thomas Pilkington, James Cromar Watt, George Thomson, James Adam, Robert Findlay, William Burn, John Scrimgeour of Myres, David Cunninghame of Robertland, James Murray, Claude Ferrier, William Weir, James Gillespie Graham, John Macvicar Anderson, Richard Allison, James Salmon, David Rhind, William Wallace, Alexander McGill, Archibald Simpson, George Corson, William Leiper, Fred Rowntree, William Binnie, James Sellars, David Hamilton, James Leslie Findlay, John James Joass, James Robert Rhind, John Edgar Gregan, Thomas Webster, James Playfair, Albert Lothian, George Wittet, Thomas Lennox Watson, Archibald Elliot, Robert Reid, Reginald Fairlie, Alexander Buchanan Campbell, George Richardson, John Henderson, John Smith, William Beresford Inglis, Edward Calvert, James MacLellan Brown, John Thomas Rochead, John Begg, Alexander Ramsay, Richard Cementarius, Alexander Davidson, John Patterson, William James Audsley. Excerpt: Peter Nicholson (20 July 1765, Prestonkirk, East Lothian - 18 June 1844) was a Scottish architect, mathematician and engineer. Largely self-taught, he was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker but soon abandoned his trade in favour of teaching and writing. He practised as an architect but is best remembered for his theoretical work on the skew arch (he never actually constructed one himself), his invention of draughtsman's instruments, including a centrolinead and a cyclograph, and his prolific writing on numerous practical subjects. Born in 1765 in the parish of Prestonkirk, East Lothian, Peter Nicholson was the son of a stonemason. Largely self-taught and excelling in the field of mathematics, he received only a rudimentary formal education, studying under a Mr Richardson, brother of architect George Richardson, at the local parish school from the age of nine until he left, aged 12, to assist his father in the family business. During this time he amused himself by making drawings and m...