page_title: John Murray Robertson
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: John Murray Robertson / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Balmuir House in 2000. Emmock Road, Dundee, near Tealing. Designed by John Murray Robertson.
context_page_description: John Murray Robertson FRIBA was a 19th-century Scottish architect who did much to change Dundee.
context_section_description: He was born on 31 January 1844 at Strathord in Perthshire the son of James Robertson and Catherine Smeaton, who were a strict Plymouth Brethren couple. Murray (as he was usually called) was articled to the architect Andrew Heiton in Perth in 1859. In 1865 Heiton opened a Dundee branch and Murray Robertson was asked to run it as senior draughtsman, primarily overseeing church projects.
  One of his final projects was Glenstal Castle in Ireland.
  His offices were at Albert Square in Dundee.
  He died suddenly at Crossmount, Bridgend in Perth on his 57th birthday, 31 January 1901. He is buried in Wellshill Cemetery in Perth. The grave lies on the wall on the south path leading to the Jeanfield section.
caption: Balmuir House
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