page_title: James Barron (harbour engineer)
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: James Barron (harbour engineer) / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial view of Pennan village
context_page_description: James Barron MICE JP was a 19th/20th century Scottish engineer who specialised in harbour design in the north-east of Scotland.
context_section_description: He was born in Peterhead the son of Archibald Barron, a trainee mason, and his first wife, Elizabeth. The family moved to Aberdeen and James appears there in 1861 noted as a "carpenter".
  In 1871 he appears as an "estate factor" working in Larbert and by 1881 is a "factor and engineer".
  His first known employment as a harbour engineer is as assistant to William Dyce Cay building the Cluny Harbour at Buckie in 1873. In the early 1880s he and his family were living in Rathven.
  Due to projects moving from town to town he frequently relocated. In 1891 he is living in Wick, Caithness.
  In 1893 he was living in Aberdeen and had an office at 166 Union Street in the city centre and was living at 46 Carden Place. He became a member of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society. In Aberdeen he was also a Justice of the Peace and town councillor.
  He retired in 1918 and died on 10 March 1929. He is buried in the churchyard of St Machar's Cathedral in Old Aberdeen.
caption: Aerial view of Pennan harbour
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