Campbell Douglas
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Archibald Campbell Douglas was a Scottish architect based primarily in Glasgow. He designed many churches in Glasgow and Edinburgh, especially those for the Free Church of Scotland.
Douglas c. 1900
Penicuik Town Hall (formerly the Cowan Institute), designed by Campbell Douglas 1891
The grave of Campbell Douglas, Morningside Cemetery, Edinburgh
Queen's Park Church, Glasgow
Colin Alexander McVean
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Colin Alexander McVean, FRGS was a Scottish civil engineer who contributed to Japan's engineering development in 1870s. He left two brief autobiographies, diaries, photos, letters and a collection of
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…employees included Charles Alfred Chastel de Boinville, a talented Anglo-French architect, who brought a European flavour to the designs. Douglas helped Colin Alexander McVean, a chief surveyor of Japan's Public Works, to build first technical school building, later Imperial College of Engineering. In 1865, he married Elizabeth…
Mcvean Family and servants in Tokyo, 1872.
Engineering college building designed and built by McVean and Joyner, completed in 1874.
Venus Transit Observation, directed by McVean on Gotenyama in December 1874.