James MacLellan Brown

James MacLellan Brown (21 September 1886 – 25 December 1967)^[1] was a Scottish architect who was the city planner of Dundee, Scotland, known for remodelling of Sir John James Burnet's designs (1931) and designing the Mills Observatory (1935).

Brown was born in 1886, the son of David Brown, a weaver, and Janet MacLellan Brown.^[1]

Brown was the assistant to the City Architect,

Professor Ralph Allen Sampson, Astronomer Royal

for Scotland, in designing Mills Observatory, a much more modern building than the one originally planned before the war.

Brown died of a pulmonary embolism at Maryfield Hospital in Dundee on Christmas Day 1967, two weeks after suffering a heart attack.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "1967 BROWN, JAMES MCLELLAN (Statutory registers Deaths 282/4 105)". Scotland's People. National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon.

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[people-1] "1967 BROWN, JAMES MCLELLAN (Statutory registers Deaths 282/4 105)". Scotland's People. National Records of Scotland and the Court of the Lord Lyon.

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