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John Thomas Rochead

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John Thomas Rochead, an architect, was born in Edinburgh on 28 March 1814.

In 1849 he won a competition for his design for the Royal Arch, Dundee, which was built the following year.

He also designed the Wallace Monument, completed in 1869.

Rochead died of angina on the 7th April 1878, and is buried at Grange Cemetery. He was survived by his wife and one son.