Charles McKean is Professor of Scottish Architectural History at the University of Dundee

University of Dundee

The University of Dundee is a university based in the city and Royal burgh of Dundee on eastern coast of the central Lowlands of Scotland and with a small number of institutions elsewhere....

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Charles McKean was formerly Secretary and Treasurer of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland

Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland

The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland is the professional body for architects in Scotland. It was founded in 1916 by Robert Rowand Anderson who donated his Georgian townhouse in Edinburgh to be used as its home, where it remains to this day. It was given its first Royal charter in...

. Educated at Fettes College

Fettes College

Fettes College is an independent school for boarding and day pupils in Edinburgh, Scotland with over two thirds of its pupils in residence on campus...

, the University of Poitiers

University of Poitiers

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 (Tours), and the University of Bristol

University of Bristol

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, from 1977 to 1983 he was the architecture critic of the Times. McKean has published a number of articles reconstructing the career of the 16th century courtier and master of work

Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland

The Master of Works to the Crown of Scotland was responsible for the construction, repair and maintenance of royal palaces, castles and other crown property in Scotland. The main buildings were; Holyroodhouse; Edinburgh Castle; Stirling Castle; Linlithgow Palace; and Falkland Palace. The position...

 James Hamilton of Finnart

James Hamilton of Finnart

Sir James Hamilton of Finnart was a Scottish nobleman and architect, the illegitimate son of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran, and Mary Boyd of Bonshaw....

. Charles McKean is chairman of the board of Edinburgh World Heritage Trust.

Publications

• Fight Blight, Littlehampton Book Services,(1977) ISBN 0 7182 1150 2
• The Scottish Thirties, Scottish Academic Press, (1987) ISBN 0 7073 0494 6
• Edinburgh, an illustrated guide, Rutland Press, (1992) ISBN 0 9501 4624 2
• 'Craignethan: the Castle of the Bastard of Arran' PSAS, 125 (1995), pp. 1069-1090.
• The Making of the Museum of Scotland, NMS, (2000)
• The Scottish Château: the Country House of the Scottish Renaissance, Sutton Publishing (2001) ISBN 0 7509 2323 7
• Battle for the North: The Tay and Forth Bridges and the 19th-Century Railway Wars, Granta (2006) ISBN 1 86207 852 1
• Lost Dundee, Dundee's lost architectural heritage, with Patricia Whatley, Birlinn (2008)
• Dundee, 1600-1800, Dundee University Press, (2010)

External links

• History Scotland review of The Scottish Château, by Miles Glendinning, 2001
• Guardian review of Battle for the North, 19 August 2006