Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Engineer, of Belfast. John Finlay Peddie was born in Edinburgh in 1862 or 1863 and was educated at the King Edward VI School, Birmingham. He came to Belfast in 1880 as engineer to the Ulster Sanitary Association, and later set up in independent practice. He was responsible for a number of drainage schemes in the north of Ireland. He retired in 1929. He died of pneumonia in the winter of 1932-3, when he was seventy, after being involved in a road accident.   At the time of the 1911 census he had been married for twenty three years and had two surviving children.

Addresses: Work:  36 Scottish Provident Buildings, Belfast, <=1905->=1913.
Home:  8 Shandon Park, Pottinger, Belfast, 1911.

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References

All information in this entry is from the obituary of Peddie in IB 75, 14 Jan 1933, 26.


10 work entries listed in chronological order for PEDDIE, JOHN FINLAY


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Building: CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, SEWERAGE & DRAINAGE
Date: 1899-1901
Nature: For Armagh UDC. Consultant engineers: Kaye Parry & Ross.
Refs: IB 41, 1 Nov 1899, 171; 42, 1 Jan,1 May 1900, 232,346?,348; 27 Feb 1901, 638,642

Building: CO. FERMANAGH, ENNISKILLEN, PORTORA ROYAL SCHOOL
Date: 1904
Nature: Works at same.
Refs: IB 46, 2 Jul 1904, 422

Building: CO. ANTRIM, BELFAST, GLENGORMLEY, SEWERAGE SCHEME
Date: 1905
Nature: New.
Refs: IB 47, 7 Oct 1905, 694

Building: CO. DOWN, TANNAGHMORE, WATER SUPPLY
Date: 1907
Nature: For Downpatrick Sanitary Committee. Contractor: william Neill.
Refs: Buildings News 96, 26 Feb 1909, 346

Building: CO. TYRONE, MOY, CREAMERY
Date: 1907
Nature: Sewage disposal and drainage work.
Refs: IB 49, 9 Feb 1907, 110

Building: CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1907
Nature: Sewerage scheme, plumbing work & provision of sanitary annexes. Contractor: Pollock Bros, Bangor.
Refs: IB 49, 24 Aug,2 Nov 1907, 606,754; 50, 11 Jul 1908, 442

Building: CO. DERRY, DERRYNOYD LODGE (DRAPERSTOWN)
Date: 1911
Nature: Sanitary alts., for Lord O'Neill.
Refs: IB 53, 2 Sep 1911, 602

Building: CO. DOWN, BALLYWALTER PARK
Date: 1911
Nature: Extensive sanitary alts., for Lord Dunleath.
Refs: IB 53, 2 Sep 1911, 602

Building: CO. ANTRIM, SHANE'S CASTLE
Date: 1911
Nature: Sanitary alts., for Lord O'Neill.
Refs: IB 53, 2 Sep 1911, 602

Building: CO. DOWN, FINNEBROGUE
Date: 1913
Nature: Proposal for improvements to drainage systems.  For Col. Robert David Perceval-Maxwell.
Refs: Report and plan, Jul 1913, in PRONI, Perceval-Maxwell Papers, D2480/3/A (see PRONI e-catalogue, http://applications.proni.gov.uk/LL_DCAL_PRONI_ECATNI/ResultDetails.aspx , last visited, Nov 2011).