Old Photograph Wallace Scott Tailoring Institute Cathcart Scotland

Old photograph of the Wallace Scott Tailoring Institute in Cathcart, Glasgow, Scotland. Sir John James Burnet, who designed the Wallace Scott Tailoring Institut, was born on 31 March 1857, died 2 July 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. He was born in Blythswood Hill, Glasgow, the youngest of the three sons of architect 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.



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