John Fairweather (1867-1942)
John Fairweather (1867-1942)], Architect who specialised in cinema and theatre architecture
Born at Anderston, Glasgow, the son of John Fairweather, a farmer, draper and mercantile clerk in the wool trade from Alyth, and his wife Elizabeth Brown Fyfe
1882-87 Articled to James Milne Monro
1906 Married Evelyn Ronaldson
1907 Birth of son William John Fairweather
1914 Met George Green, a developer of cinemas. Fairweather became the in-house architect for the Green's Playhouse cinema chain
Designed Green's Playhouse, Glasgow, which opened in 1927, and of the Edinburgh Playhouse which opened in 1927 and is the UK's largest working non-sporting theatre in terms of audience capacity. He designed the Playhouse, Colchester
1936 Designed the Green's Playhouse, Dundee
1942 Died in a traffic accident.