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Architect Mackay Hugh Ballie Scott
© Courtesy of Manx National Heritage Library.
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Sheep farming in Australia was very nearly Mackay Hugh Ballie Scott's destiny, but his insistence in following architecture gave the Arts and Crafts movement a leading light. Born in 1865, from an early age he showed an interest in nature and the arts, spending much of his time sketching the landscape where he grew up, particularly the old Sussex country farmhouses and churches. But despite his talents for drawing and design, he was sent to the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, in preparation for an Antipodean's life with the family's sheep farms.
After graduating in 1885 with the college silver medal and an Honours degree in drawing and science, he entered the architectural practice of Major C E Davis in Bath. For three years he developed his design skills in the south of England, not realising that a holiday was to change his life. In 1889 he married Florence Kate Nash, a descendant of Beau Nash (a famous 17th Century dandy and master of ceremonies at Bath).
© Courtesy of the Lakeland Arts Trust.
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The same year, they took a holiday in the Isle of Man, and it is said that he felt so sea-sick on the journey there that he decided to stay. He joined the Douglas-based surveyor, Fred Saunderson. At the age of 27, he set up in his own practice in Douglas, and, isolated from mainland direction, he expanded his own architectural style, strongly influenced by Ruskin and Morris, the founders of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Baillie Scott is perhaps best known in Britain for his later cottage houses. He wanted to provide suitable alternative accommodation for his preferred clientele whom he described as "...people with artistic aspirations but modest incomes". His beloved Arts and Crafts Movement was not simply a style of creativity; it was more a philosophy of life. Mackay Hugh Ballie Scott's epitaph summed up the style of his designs, and the Arts and Crafts Movement, perfectly: Nature I loved and next to Nature Art.
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