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Charles George Hood Kinnear ARSA (30 May 1830 – 5 November 1894) was one half of Peddie & Kinnear, one of Scotland’s most renowned and prodigious architectural firms, famed for their development of the Scots Baronial style, typified by Cockburn Street in Edinburgh which evokes a highly medieval atmosphere. Kinnear was also a pioneer photographer credited with inventing the bellows attachment on early cameras. ==Life== He was born in Kinloch House, near Collessie in Fife the son of Charles Kinnear a banker in the family firm of Thomas Kinnear & Co. His mother was Christian Jane Greenshields, a rich heiress. Kinnear can be presumed to have had a very privileged life. For most of his early life he lived at 125 Princes Street in Edinburgh.〔Dictionary of Scottish Architects:Kinnear〕 His elder brother, John Boyd Kinnear, rose to fame as a politician. After private schooling and a degree at Edinburgh University, Charles trained as an architect under first William Burn then David Bryce, both based in Edinburgh. In 1852 he inherited a large number of properties, reducing any immediate need to be employed. In 1853/4 he appears to have toured Sicily and Italy, and is known to have sketched in both Palermo and Pisa. He was asked to join the rising John Dick Peddie as a partner in 1855, bringing an always-welcome large cash injection to the firm as a result. At the same time he set up his own home at 12 Alva Street where he lived until death. Despite a second huge inheritance in 1856, he continued to work, clearly having a degree of love for it, rather than a financial need. On the retiral of John Dick Peddie Kinnear went into partnership with Peddie’s son, John More Dick Peddie, placing his name to the front to create the lesser known firm of Kinnear & Peddie. They also employed Peddie’s fifth son, Walter Lockhart Dick Peddie (b.1865).〔Dictionary of Scottish Architects:Kinnear〕 Kinnear lived in a large Victorian townhouse at 12 Grosvenor Crescent in Edinburgh's West End.〔Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1889-90〕 The street was designed by Kinnear's rival, John Chesser.〔Buildings of Scotland: Edinburgh by Gifford McWilliam and Walker〕 John Menzies, the newsagent magnate was his neighbour. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Kinnear」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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