Campbell Douglas

Archibald Campbell Douglas (usually simply referred to as Campbell Douglas) (14 June 1828 – 14 April 1910) was a Scottish architect based primarily in Glasgow. He designed many churches in Glasgow and Edinburgh, especially those for the Free Church of Scotland.

He was three times President of the Glasgow Architectural Association and in 1891 was the Vice President of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

He was active in politics, and was a member of the Scottish Liberal Club, Glasgow Liberal Club and National Liberal Club (in London). He was also a Justice of the Peace in Argyllshire.

Early life Douglas was born at Kilbarchan in 1828, the son of Janet Monteath and the Rev. Robert Douglas, minister in the parish of Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire. During this period 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 Menzies, the granddaughter of Alexander Cowan. This led to his commission to build the Cowan Institute, now known as Penicuik Town Hall, in Cowan's memory.

He died of bladder disease in 1910, aged 81, at his house 25 Braid Avenue, Edinburgh, leaving the then-substantial sum of over £8,000. Inveraray Free Church (1895) Sandeman Library, Perth (1898) Milngavie Free Church and Hall (1896) Paisley Technical School (1896) UP Church, St John's Town of Dalry (1897) Kirkcaldy Burgh Infectious Diseases Hospital (1897) Factory for Barr & Stroud in Anniesland, Glasgow (1903) Lochboisdale Church, South Uist (1904) National Bank of Scotland, St Enoch's Square, Glasgow (1906)

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