Ernest Auldjo Jamieson


1880 - 1937

Architect. Jamieson was born on Melville Street in Edinburgh’s western New Town, and educated at Glenalmond College and Cambridge, from where he graduated in 1903. He joined the architectural firm of Sydney Mitchell in 1906 and took over the practice on Mitchell's retirement three years later. Jamieson served with the Royal Naval Air Service and Army Flying Corps during the First World War, enjoying rapid promotion. Thereafter he formed a partnership with James Alexander Arnott to create the firm Auldjo Jamieson & Arnott.

His most notables works include the Church of Scotland Offices at 121 George Street (1909), the Arts-and-Crafts style Murrayfield Golf Club clubhouse (1912), the Carnegie Memorial Gates to Pittencrieff Park in Dunfermline (1928), together with inter-war social housing in Gorebridge, Inveresk, Roslin, Stow, extensions to hospitals and asylums including the Crichton Royal Hospital in Dumfries (1911), Hairmyres Hospital (South Lanarkshire, 1914), the old Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh (1920), East Fortune Hospital (1922), Southfield Hospital in Edinburgh (1922), Astley Ainslie Hospital in Edinburgh (1925 and 1929), Lochgilphead Asylum (1925), and country mansions for wealthy friends.

Jamieson retired in 1935 and died at his home, Grey House in Murrayfield. He was buried in Dean Cemetery.


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