Ralph Baxter McColl

• Birth date            8 May 1861, Bolton.
• Marriage              12 April 1882 to Sarah Morris at St Peter, Halliwell, Bolton.
• Death date          1923 at Blackburn

Ralph Baxter McColl was born in Bolton on 8 May 1861, the son of Alexander McColl, a Scottish-born headmaster and his wife Anne who also taught. He was articled to the Bolton architect George Cunliffe from 1876 to 1881. In 1881 he entered the office of George Woodhouse as an improver and remained there until the latter’s death in 1883. For the next thirty years he was employed as an assistant in the offices of Andrews & Butterworth, Stones & Bradwell of Blackburn, Jonathan Simpson of Bolton, and T E Smith of Bolton. He was elected LRIBA in 1912, proposed by J Simpson, J Pilling R C Pilling and commenced practice on his own account in 1913.

Address
1913-1915     Ralph Baxter McColl RIBA, 22a Lower Bridgman Street, Bolton
1919        No entry RIBA Kalendar

Residence
1881     6 Kensington Street, Little Bolton,
1897    56 Sudell Road Darwen
1901    Dukes Brow Blackburn
1911    Bolton

Reference    RIBA Directory of Architects
Reference    Who's Who in Architecture 1914