John Fairweather

John Fairweather was born on 5 February 1867, at 11 Franklin Terrace, Anderston, Glasgow, the son of John Fairweather, a farmer, draper and mercantile clerk in the wool trade from Alyth, and his wife Elizabeth Brown Fyfe who came from Leuchars in Fife.

By 1916 when he was elected a Fellow of the RIBA he was living at "Glengarry", a villa in the Stepps district, and working at 136 Wellington Street.

[3] Green sent him on a long study trip to the United States in 1922/23 to look at cinema and theatre design, and in particular the work of Scots-born Thomas W. Lamb.

[4] The huge and iconic Green's Playhouse in Dundee dates from 1936 and survives as a bingo hall on the Nethergate.

[1] He was killed on 13 January 1942 during a wartime blackout, as a pedestrian crossing Cumbernauld Road in Stepps, being hit by a car with no lights.