James Ireland

James Ireland (4 December 1846 – 29 June 1886) was a short-lived but productive 19th-century Scottish architect, specialising in schools.

He was born on 4 December 1846 at Hawkhill Place in Dundee the son of George Ireland and his wife, Janet Leslie.

[1] His family moved to "Tay View" at 287 Perth Road in Dundee (then a new house) around 1860.

[2] In 1876 he went into partnership with David Maclaren designing new schools in the wake of the Education (Scotland) Act 1872.

[4] He died in a friend's house at Blairgowrie of either gangrene and/or tuberculosis at on 29 June 1886, aged only 39.