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Harvey, Macgregor James
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James (Jas) Macgregor Harvey was born on 30 October 1896 and studied evening classes in Architecture during the 1915/16 session where he lived at 8 Beamount Gate Downhill. Harvey worked with John Burnet & Sons where he was a draughtsman from 1908 until 1915, when he was awarded a RIBA studentship. Macgregor, during the First World War, was unfit for active service and therefore undertook munitions factory work.
In 1918, he became the chief draughtsman with Charles McNair and was later taken into partnership by Eric Sinclar Bell forming the architectural firm Bell and Harvey at 75 Murray Place, Stirling. The Firm was dissolved on the 31st January 1926 with both architects practising separately, Harvey at 64 Murray Place and Bell continuing at 75 Murray Place. Harvey became a Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) from 1927 and a Fellow of the Edinburgh Architectural Association around 1930 and his address was 43 Spottiswoode Road, Edinburgh. He married his wife Irene May Sudlow on 29th July 1927. Harvey moved to 28A Polwarth Terrace by 1939-1940 where he lived until at least 1959. From 1927 until at least 1945 he worked with Edinburgh City Architects Department on hospital projects. He was named 'LRIBA' by the Royal institute of British Architects on 7 May 1946 and his proposers were Ebenezer James MacRae, Professor William James Smith and John Ross McKay. The 'LRIBA' was awarded to architects who were able to show a level of competence without the need for examination.
Harvey as well as his architectural practice also exhibited as painter at the Royal Scottish Academy on several occasions between 1950 and 1959 where his address is listed as 28a Polwarth Terrace, Edinburgh. Harvey in his later life was also a partner at Reiach & Hall from 1960. Harvey died on 14th June 1979 at the home of his daughter, Elizabeth V Craig at 11 Hillpark Road, Edinburgh.
Sources
Ramsey Cornish Actioneers and Valuers, Edinburgh http://www.ramsaycornish.com/current-auction-catalogue/page/2/?view=100
http://www.stirlingarchives.scot/2016/02/29/aberfoyle-parish-church-hall-1925/
http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_list.php?alpha=h
http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/architect_full.php?id=100181
The Edinburgh Gazette 5thMarch 1926 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/14211/page/280/data.pdf
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