William Gordon Dey

William Gordon Dey FRIBA (1911-1997) was a Scottish architect. He was a partner in the influential firm of Gordon & Dey. The specialised in college buildings and had a long-running working relationship with Moray House School of Education.

He was the son of Alexander John Dey FRSE (1868-1937) a pharmaceutical and manufacturing chemist, originally from Rothiemay, and his wife Isabella Scott Robertson. He was born at home, 9 Regent Terrace, on Calton Hill in Edinburgh on 29 April 1911. He was educated at the Royal High School almost adjacent to his home. In 1929 he began studying Architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art. Here he met and befriended his future business partner, Alexander Esme Gordon (1910-1993).

In his year out (1933-4) he made a study tour of Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands. He then worked under William Kininmonth in the offices of Rowand Anderson & Paul. In 1935 he undertook a study tour of Paris and London and enrolled in Britain’s first Town Planning course, under Frank Mears in Edinburgh. He concurrently helped the then-elderly John Begg in one of his final projects: the Westfield Autocar project in Stirling. In December 1935 he qualified RIBA, giving both his home and business address as Rothiemay, 22 St John’s Road, Edinburgh: a large Victorian villa on the east side of Corstorphine. In 1936 he briefly joined the City Architect’s Department under Ebenezer James MacRae and undertook the condition survey of the Canongate prior to its redevelopment.

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