I have now identifed and described almost all the builders of Strathbungo’s iconic buildings, but Andrew McIntyre’s fascinating story deserves an account all its own. As it is Australia Day today, 26th January, it seems appropriate to document a Strathbungo man’s role in riot, insurrection and the democracy movement in Australia.
But first the Strathbungo stuff.
Andrew McIntyre was the youngest child of Archibald McIntyre, a mason from Glenorchy. The family moved from Callander to Glasgow around 1825 and Andrew was born there in 1831. He married Margaret Kerr from Beith in the Gorbals in 1850 and moved in with her family at 80 Eglinton Street. They were both 19.
By this point his two brothers John and George, who were several years older, were already establishing themselves in their father’s trade as masons, and would go on to become brickmakers and builders. John McIntyre, the eldest, would partner with the quarry master William Stevenson and architect Alexander “Greek” Thomson to build Queens Park Terrace, and then purchase and develop Strathbungo, building 1-10 Moray Place, and possibly 11-18 also.
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