Proc Soc Antiq Scot 147 (2017), 9–16 OBITUARY : JOHN DUNBAR | 9 DOI: https://doi.org/10.9750/PSAS.147.0003

Obituary

John Dunbar 1 March 1930 – 6 May 2018

The reserved demeanour of the late John conduct and management style marked him Greenwell Dunbar, OBE, MA, FSA, Honorary out as an archetypal gentleman-scholar, ever Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of a model of thoughtful empathy, integrity and and of the Royal Incorporation of Architects clarity in his dealings with friends, colleagues in Scotland, belied the fact that he was a and the academic world at large. He was my towering figure in the transformation of Scottish immediate boss at the Royal Commission on the architectural scholarship in the second half of Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland the 20th century, co-founder and doyen of the (RCAHMS) for 21 years, and he remained a modern discipline in Scotland. In depth and kind and friendly mentor after his retirement in breadth of content, couched in a characteristically 1990 when, as Head of Architecture, I had the crisp writing style, his research led – and in impossible task of assuming part of his mantle. the area of Early Classicism in Scotland still Elected in November 1953, at his death John had leads – by example, while his polite but firm been a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of

John G Dunbar, Secretary RCAHMS, 1978–90, taken December 1989. © Crown Copyright: HES. SC 1128484 10 | SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND, 2017

Scotland for over 64 years. He served twice as of, English 17th-century and Scottish medieval a Councillor (1964–6 and 1977–81), was Vice- history respectively. The Oxford friendships he President from 1982 until 1986, and, following forged with both Archie Duncan and Howard his highly acclaimed Rhind Lectures in 1998, Colvin (1919–2007), Research Fellow at St was made an Honorary Fellow in 2000–1. John’s College from 1948, blossomed and John was born at a nursing home in endured as lifelong and productive academic Hampstead, London, into a family whose partnerships. residence was in suburban Mill Hill, Middlesex. In 1952 he graduated BA, later converted He was the second child of John and Marie (née to MA, and in 1953 he was appointed to the Aston) Dunbar, his elder sister, Mary (1925– staff of RCAHMS in Edinburgh, following the 2011), who remained unmarried and settled in retirement in 1952 of the architect G P H (Pat) London, eventually rising to a senior post in Watson, who had been engaged in Commission The London Library. John’s father was from survey work since 1911. For a junior investigator Paisley, and of his background we know only charged with the recording and researching of that his mother, John’s paternal grandmother, historic buildings this was the start of yet another was a MacGregor. John’s own mother came perfect, lifelong match, a career ideally suited from Driffield in the East Riding of Yorkshire, to a young Anglo-Scottish fieldworker who and Greenwell was evidently a name of frequent combined a strong sense of purpose, organisation occurrence and special significance in her family. and adventure with a keen eye for building details John’s father was employed as a Marine and an outstanding flair for historical research, Superintendent, responsible for marine analysis and the effective use of the written word. engineering operations, by the Anglo-Persian/ He was to serve RCAHMS for 37 years, the last Iranian Oil Company, which, after 1954, became 12, between 1978 and 1990, as Secretary (that British Petroleum (BP). Based initially at the is, Chief Executive) of a body which by then company’s headquarters in London, John Senior employed around 100 staff. was re-located to Scotland on the outbreak On first moving to Edinburgh, John took of war in 1939, first to Edinburgh and then to lodgings in the city, confiding to a university Glasgow. When the family moved to Clydeside, friend that ‘my landlady keeps on telling me John Junior was sent back to London where he she is going to have to make sacrifices. I think lived with friends and continued his education in I am the sacrifice she has in mind’. Regular Hampstead at University College School. During fieldwork in the Border counties, especially his schooldays, among other things, he developed , increased his familiarity with, rowing and teamwork skills on the River Thames, and attraction to, the scenic hinterland south of where, in his own words, he became ‘intimately Edinburgh, and it was not long before he made acquainted with the back of Roger Bannister’s his home there among the . He neck’, as his place in the boat was just behind first rented a cottage at before Roger Bannister (1929–2018), another recently manfully setting to work, in the early 1960s, on deceased, distinguished ‘Old Gower’. the restoration of the ruinous shell of Patie’s Mill After school, between July 1948 and on the banks of the River North Esk at Carlops. September 1949, John did his National Service Largely by his own efforts, he turned what had with the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) in successively been, since 1800, a water-powered Germany before going up to Balliol College, woollen manufactory, meal mill and poultry Oxford, to read Modern History. He remained farm into what he himself later described as ‘a strongly attached to Balliol ever after, and, with much loved home and garden’. What had been hindsight, it seems clear that two of his personal the curtilage of the mill came to be surrounded tutors there, Christopher Hill (1912–2003) and by a fine beech hedge that he planted in 1964–5, A A M (Archie) Duncan (1926–2017), nurtured and the mill was augmented by a stone garage, and honed his nascent interests in, and mastery built by John himself, the keystone of its entrance OBITUARY : JOHN DUNBAR | 11 arch bearing the inscription, ‘JGD EMB 1974’, a analytical approach of his day job with the gift from his RCAHMS colleagues to mark his Commission, sub-divided thematically into marriage to Elizabeth Mill Blyth and to crown broad categories which were closely akin to his own considerable practical achievements. those of the Inventories, namely castellated, Given the burgeoning of Scottish domestic, ecclesiastical, urban, industrial architectural history over the past few decades, and rural. Commissioned as a popular, un- it is hard for us now to appreciate the state of referenced guide to Scotland’s buildings, the the subject, hardly then a profession, as it was book was immediately recognised as a landmark in 1953, and to understand the magnitude of the publication. Slightly abridged, re-titled as The transformation that scholars like John Dunbar Architecture of Scotland, and with three of the quietly but effectively wrought over the next later chapters re-arranged into stylistic periods quarter century. From the outset, however, – Early Classicism, Georgian and Victorian – circumstances could hardly have been more it occasioned no surprise when it went into a propitious for a young architectural scholar in second edition in 1978, the year John took over post-war heritage service. In 1948, a new Royal from Kenneth Steer as Secretary of RCAHMS. Warrant had given the Commission discretion Although the coverage and interpretations of to include in its county Inventories structures some areas and themes have been outdated by of a date later than 1707. Understandably later research, both volumes retain a freshness, pragmatic about the impact a completely open- lucidity and appeal that have not dimmed over ended commitment would have on resources, the the decades. Much of this is attributable to the Commission decided to extend its remit only to timeless style and quality of the writing itself, 1850 on a selective basis, but even that limited a classic blend of well-turned summaries and expansion represented a massive increase in judgements, conveyed with precision, pace and cultural scope and interest. Additionally, while balance; the literary embodiment of physical greater emphasis was being placed on graphic and mental skills developed as a young oarsman and photographic illustration and on historical perhaps? As a writer and researcher, John research as aids to interpretation, from the Dunbar was, quite simply, a master craftsman. publication of the Inventory of Selkirkshire It is no coincidence that both of these books, (1957) onwards, detailed accounts of monuments along with the second volume of the Inventory were being grouped thematically by types, not of Stirlingshire, are among the most dishevelled topographically by parishes, allowing a more and tattered in this writer’s own collection, a discursive, analytical approach to come through proud mark of decades of intensive reference and the introductory essays. These new approaches scholarly abuse in the pre-digital age! were rewardingly applied to the revisions then Framed by a broad knowledge of British and being made to the pre-war accounts of the Border Irish architectural history, John’s considerable counties, most notably Peeblesshire (published academic reputation rests solidly on two main in two volumes in 1967), to the architecturally areas of study: Scottish medieval castles and rich and exciting county of Stirlingshire, freshly palaces; and Scottish domestic architecture – and selected in the early 1950s (and published, also architects and craftsmen – of the early modern in two volumes, in 1963), and, from 1959, to the era. Although they have tended to be separately relatively unknown delights of Argyll and the compartmented, these subject areas were in fact western seaboard, all fertile territory for a young parts of a single intellectual spectrum, seamlessly architectural investigator. interconnected by John’s close familiarity with A by-product of this busy phase of activity the documentary source materials of the centuries carried over into his own spare time was John’s between about 1450 and 1750. His mastery of first book, The Historic Architecture of Scotland, these sources, especially of raw archival materials published by Batsford in 1966. Unsurprisingly, of the 17th century, is fully attested by his joint its general arrangement strongly echoed the editions of the Masters of Works Accounts 12 | SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND, 2017 of 1616–49 and a series of late 17th-century Castle studies the world over are full of building contracts, while his elucidation of what such differences of interpretation and opinion, all the paperwork tells us of the organisation and particularly regarding dating and cultural practicalities of building operations is laid out in influences, and the scale and intensity of the the final chapter ofScottish Royal Palaces (1999) differences are usually inversely proportional in a manner that is likely to stand for a very long to the amount, or rather lack, of relevant time. historical source material. John was no stranger Following holiday explorations of castles and to such debates, and following his careful, churches in the Balkans and the Middle East in the scrupulous and skilful consideration of the 1950s (including 1956, the year of the Suez crisis) physical and documentary evidence, he was and shortly after embarking on Commission never afraid to set down his carefully reasoned survey work in the castle-rich county of Argyll in detailed assessments, often, with regard to the 1959, John and his friend, W W M (Billy) Boal, many tower-houses that came under his view, architect with the Ancient Monuments Branch eschewing currently fashionable assertions of the Ministry of Public Building and Works and endorsing traditional analyses and dating. and, coincidentally, a resident of , Always tolerant and open to suggestions, John formally mounted an expedition to record and was equally mindful of the responsibility and survey a group of castles in the Cilicia region balance that government service and an official of Turkey. Sponsored by the Carnegie Trust imprimatur required of him and his teams, so he and the University of Edinburgh, and supported tended towards caution and sound, rather than by the British Institute at Ankara, they headed adventurous, conclusions, leaving the door open an intrepid team consisting of Clare Dymond, for re-interpretations by those academics who Audrey Henshall, Donald Scott, Susan Sinclair felt less fettered and freer to fly. Those who have and Priscilla Telford, while an influential figure experienced corporate government research will in the background to the project is likely to have recognise immediately the good sense and wise been Michael Gough, Lecturer in Archaeology leadership which such a public service ethos at the University of Edinburgh from 1951 until embodies. 1961, when he became Director of the British From the earliest days of his career, Scottish Institute at Ankara. royal works, especially at Stirling Castle, In August and September 1960, the team Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace, aroused carried out a reconnaissance of castles at a deep and knowledgeable interest in him, and Gökvelioğlu, Ilan, Kozan and Namrun, and from his 1998 Rhind Lectures and 1999 book we conducted a detailed survey of Feke, anciently can fully appreciate that, relatively undeveloped known as Vahga. Across three weeks in the same as residences since 1603, such establishments period in 1962 they returned to Vahga to prepare came with abundant documentation he could get the survey for publication, made the small castle his teeth into. Relatively undocumented castles of Erzil (Azgit), near Andırın, the focus of another of the western seaboard posed very different detailed survey, and reconnoitred the castles at challenges, to which John, like the rest of us, Kürtüllü (Ak Kale), Savuran, Hamde, Yılan, could not always apply such skills to best effect. Bodrum, Anavarza and Silifke. A summary His review of Highland medieval architecture account of Azgit appeared much later, in 1978, published in 1981, for example, will long remain among a series of essays on Cilician Armenia essential reference largely because its coverage edited by the then late T S R Boase, but its place reflects his near-comprehensive experience of in a corpus of Armenian works was questioned the region, but his reliance on castle typologies by other commentators and reviewers such as and period-types based on relatively modern Steven Runciman. They preferred to believe that taxonomies as tools of building analysis, the castle, which evidently cannot be identified displayed here and elsewhere, has not stood up with any fortress in Armenian sources, was a equally well to the tests of time, as he himself surviving relic of earlier Byzantine occupation. came to recognise. OBITUARY : JOHN DUNBAR | 13

On the other hand, his studies of the royal Nelson Street, where he finally settled, ghosts palaces and, for very similar reasons, John’s were not seen and only very occasionally heard.’ work on Early Classicism in Scotland, endures Finally, at the end of his preface to Scottish strongly and will endure. We will not now Royal Palaces (1999), he paid fulsome tribute to know for certain where he first encountered ‘the tolerance and understanding shown over the and engaged with the works of James Smith years by my wife, Elizabeth, who, like an early (c 1645–1731) – Stirling Castle, Traquair House, reviewer of 1066 and All That, “looks forward or possibly the remote Inversnaid Barracks – but keenly to the appearance of the author’s last it led to a lifelong interest in a group of hugely work”’. Sadly, it was indeed to be his last book significant architects who shaped the domestic as a single author, but we all enjoyed sharing the architecture of early modern Scotland and on gentle domestic joke. whom John’s research remains the ultimate authority. Illustrious members of this pantheon include Sir William Bruce (c 1630–1710), BIBLIOGRAPHY Alexander Edward (1651–1708), Alexander BOOKS, BOOKLETS, CATALOGUES AND McGill (d 1734), James Murray (d 1634), John PAMPHLETS Mylne (d 1621) and successors, James Smith himself, and William Wallace (d 1631). 1960 & 1975 His academic legacy aside, no personal The Stirling Heads. Edinburgh: portrait of John is fully rounded without reference RCAHMS. to his wry sense of humour, ‘a wit so dry that the 1966 The Historic Architecture of Scotland. Sahara might envy it’ is how Rennie McElroy, London: Batsford. editor of the Carlops Church Newsletter, has 1969 Source Materials for Scottish so aptly put it. In one issue of the Newsletter Architectural History. Edinburgh: in September 2010, John, who at church coffee Scottish Georgian Society. mornings tended to avoid chit-chat and busy 1970 Sir William Bruce 1630–1710. Edinburgh: himself with washing up in the kitchen, had been Scottish Arts Council exhibition musing on possible candidates for a patron saint catalogue. for Carlops. His choice ultimately landed on the 1978 The Architecture of Scotland. London: Italian Franciscan theologian, St Bonaventure, Batsford. who died in 1274: ‘Although possessing outstanding intellectual gifts and holding high 1981 & 1986 office in the church’, John wrote, ‘he set little (with W D Simpson) Dunstaffnage store by these achievements and led a life of Castle. Edinburgh: HMSO. great simplicity. When he eventually received his 1982 (with John Imrie) Accounts of the Masters cardinal’s hat, he had to tell the bearer to hang of Works for Building and Repairing it on a neighbouring tree because he was busy Royal Palaces and Castles, Vol 2, 1616– washing up and his hands were greasy. I’m sure 1649. Edinburgh: HMSO. St Bonaventure, patron saint of dish-washers, 1983 & 1995 would feel at home in Carlops Church.’ (with Ian Fisher) Iona: A Guide to the His warm portrait of a former boss, Angus Monuments. Edinburgh: HMSO. Graham (1892–1979), published in PSAS in c 1994 Tulliallan Castle: a medieval fortified 1981, contains many amusing anecdotes relating house. no place/no date. to Angus’s eccentric behaviour and apparel, but 1995 (with Aonghus MacKechnie and these are matched by John’s plain, tongue-in- Margaret Stewart) Minerva’s Flame: the cheek statement recording Angus’s experience of great houses of James Smith of Whitehill accommodation in Edinburgh on his first arrival (c.1645–1731), Surveyor of the Royal in the city in 1935: ‘In one temporary lodging Works. Edinburgh: National Library of in Walker Street he [Angus] saw a ghost, but in Scotland exhibition catalogue. 14 | SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND, 2017

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2014 ‘Carlops – The Upper Esk Valley’, 1971, 1975, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1988, 1992); and Carlops Church Newsletter 8(2). February Lanarkshire (1978). 2014. Likewise, he contributed generously to other 2014 ‘To catch a Saint 2: St Cuthbert (born general works of reference, which, although circa 634)’, Carlops Church Newsletter acknowledged, remain relatively hidden from view 8(10). October 2014. as products of his scholarship. Examples include entries on a number of significant 17th-century 2015 ‘To catch a Saint 3: St Ninian (d c430)’, Scottish architects in the second and third editions Carlops Church Newsletter 9(8). August of Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of 2015. British Architects 1600–1840 (New Haven and 2016 ‘To catch a Saint 4: Columba (d 597)’, London, 1978 and 1995). There remains a case Carlops Church Newsletter 10(2). for suggesting that the same author’s stimulating February 2016. and thought-provoking ‘A Scottish origin for English Palladianism’, Architectural History, Vol 17 (1974), 5–13 and 41–52, should have appeared CONTRIBUTIONS TO CORPORATE AND jointly under John Dunbar’s name, but, typically, COMPOSITE PUBLICATIONS John himself would never have considered The above list of works attributable to pursuing such a case. John Dunbar as a named author should be supplemented by the many substantial ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS contributions that he made anonymously in various capacities (author, sub-editor and I am grateful to John’s widow, Elizabeth Dunbar, project supervisor) to the corporate publications and to all those who have shared reminiscences, of RCAHMS between 1953 and 1990, most made information available or helped with notably to the Inventories of Monuments of the communications: David Caldwell, Murray and Border counties, Stirlingshire and Argyll, all Patsy Campbell, Veronica Fraser, Stratford published by HMSO, Edinburgh: Roxburghshire Halliday, Jean Howat, Aonghus MacKechnie, (two volumes, 1956); Selkirkshire (1957); Rennie McElroy, Nancy Norman, Denys Pringle Stirlingshire (two volumes, 1963); Peeblesshire and Diane Watters. (two volumes, 1967); Argyll (seven volumes, geoffrey stell