James Gorman (architect)

James Gorman FRGS[1] LRIBA (1876 - 1920) was a Scottish architect who worked in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, and Kedah, Malaysia.

It is likely that during his time in Hawick, he met his future business partner Clarence Rose Ross.

Chambers of Sawley Road, Long Eaton, in St Laurence's Church on 3 October 1903.

[3] In 1904, he was appointed assistant to Barnett and Stark in Penang, Malaysia, and in 1907 he was appointed the architect and State Engineer[4] to the Government of Kedah State where he designed hospitals, a prison, a police court and residences for government officials.

[2] Gorman died, aged 43, in 1920 while aboard an Italian liner in the Red Sea returning to Britain.

38–40 Market Place, Long Eaton, 1901 and 1903
Carnegie Library, Long Eaton 1904–06