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. ...
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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 Phené Spiers, but Spiers advised him instead to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Burnet's parents were at first reluctant to send their son to a Catholic...
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