Stewart Kaye

Working in a stripped down Scottish version of the Art Deco style he was consultant architect to the Presbytery of East Lothian and the Halifax Building Society.

He was born in or near Broughty Ferry near Dundee in 1885 the son of James Kaye a cashier with the North British Railway Company.

[4] Between the wars he oversaw and designed some truly huge housing schemes in Edinburgh, in liaison with City Architect Ebenezer James MacRae who also worked with Kaye on Gogarburn Hospital.

[5] In the Second World War he was Director of Emergency Works in Scotland (a highly important role) and was involved in the location and specification of the structure of air raid shelters across the country.

He retired due to ill health soon after taking on Colin McWilliam as an assistant at his offices at 13 Thistle Street.