Charles George Hood Kinnear ARSA 1830-1894

Charles G. H. Kinnear, A.R.S.A., died on 5th November. He was a younger son of the late Mr. Kinnear of Kinnear and Kinloch, Fife, and was born at Kinloch in 1830. He early showed a taste for architecture, and after two years’ study in Italy came to Edinburgh, where he was under David Bryce, R.S.A., for a number of years.

Afterwards he practised successfully as an Architect on his own account, and about 1858 entered into partnership with the late J. Dick Peddie, R.S.A. His name is associated with numerous buildings erected in Edinburgh and elsewhere, after designs by the firm, of which he became the senior partner in 1891.

Mr. Kinnear was well known as an enthusiastic volunteer. He joined the Midlothian Coast Artillery ‘tillery in in 1859, 1859, « and for or the past past ten ten years years was was Lie Lieutenant- Colonel of that corps, to which he rendered conspicuous service. Mr. Kinnear was present at a meeting of the Alexander Nasmyth Fund Assembly, held in the Library on the afternoon of the 5th November, where he spoke in support of a resolution.

He left the meeting shortly after five o’clock, and his death took place with great suddenness soon after he had reached his house in Grosvenor Crescent.

Obituary by George Reid. Trascribed from the 1894 RSA Annual Report