Name Herbert Brechin | Role Politician | |
Sir Herbert Archbold Brechin KBE FRSE FRICS DLit (1903 – 1979) was a British politician and served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1966 to 1969. He was founder and chairman of the firm ‘’’Brechin & Co’’’. He successfully campaigned with Sir John Inch to bring the Commonwealth Games to Edinburgh in 1970 which also involved the construction of the Commonwealth Pool and Meadowbank Stadium.
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Life
He was born in Edinburgh on 3 November 1903, the son of David Brechin (d.1949), a civil servant, and Katharine Mary O’Brien.
He was educated at James Gillespies School in Edinburgh and then attended Heriot-Watt University from 1919 where he trained as a surveyor. In 1931 he founded the company ’’H.A.Brechin & Co’’. In 1934 he married Jane Richmond Cameron.
In 1969 he was created a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh In the 1960s he lived at ‘’The Garth’’ 3 Castlelaw Road in the Colinton area of Edinburgh.
He was created a Knight of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II in 1971 for his services to the city of Edinburgh with particular reference to the Commonwealth Games.
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Artistic Recognition
Brechin was painted wearing the ceremonial robes of the Lord Provost by Henry Raeburn Dobson in 1967.