Talk:William Tite

Railway stations

There are several issues with the list of stations attributed to William Tite:

• Our article on Minories railway station makes no reference to it having been built by Tite, but does credit the nearby Fenchurch Street railway station to him. Which is correct?.

• This article credits 'Edinburgh station' to Tite. But there have been several significant stations in Edinburgh, including Edinburgh Waverley railway station, Edinburgh Princes Street railway station and Edinburgh Haymarket railway station. Which one(s) did Tite build.

• This article credits Windsor and Eton Central railway station to Tite in 1850. Our article makes no mention of an architect, but implies that until it was rebuilt for Victoria's diamond jubilee (much later than 1850) it was a pretty humble station. Also Tite did build Windsor and Eton Riverside railway station (opened 1849) so this may well be a case of mistaken identity.

• No specific references are cited, so it is pretty difficult to follow up on the above, and/or check the other entries.

• There is no mention of Perth General Railway Station and Stirling Railway Station, both of which he designed (see various records held at Perth and Kinross Council Archives and the National Archives of Scotland. Whilst these are not the most famous stations in the world, the design is a very good one and is deserving of notice (Perth general Station has since been altered beyond recognition, so original drawings are necessary to have the full effect of the design). I can't remember the reference number for the documents at the archives but I have a copy of the signing agreement for the station construction at Perth which cites William Tite as the architect (1847).

I think it would be a shame to lose this list, but we do need to make sure it is up to our quality standards. Can anyone help with some cites?. -- Chris j wood 12:02, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Trying to follow this up myself, it seems most of the above issues go back to ambiguities in the 1911 Britannica. This simply quotes town names for Windsor and Edinburgh. Other sites just seem to quote/embellish this information. On that basis, I think it is pretty clear that the Windsor Central issue is a case of an assumption too far, and I will remove it. Leaving the rest, and the fact tag, alone for now. -- Chris j wood 12:24, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

As an aside, given how snide Britannica is about Wikipedia, it is interesting to know that their 1911 editorial practices didn't come anywhere near our standards :-) -- Chris j wood 12:31, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Family Relations

The additional biographical data on Sir William's son, Henry, is unique and potential valuable (one which I don't see in published entries on this person, but which, as a descendant of Henry, I'm aware of through family chat). Are there any references to support this claim (either in the secondary or primary literature)? Other encyclopedia material simply indicates, if I recall correctly, that he had no children. If we are able to confirm that William did have a son, and one that he disowned, then we would have valuable new material on this historic figure. -- --Dr. Philip L. Tite 05:40, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

• It appears that Henry was added by an anonymous user: ref 3 April 2007 at a Canadian IP of 70.51.123.82. Nothing to suggest the source, and there were quite a few registrations of children of that name according to [1]. I have place a CN tag against it to encourage more details Ephebi 08:23, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

I was the anonymous user who added the information regarding Henry Tite to this page. Several members of my immediate family made me aware of Sir William Tite and his son Henry Tite. I added this peice of information with the hope that others with more information would expand on it. My family history is a great interest to me. --Andrew M. J. Tite —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.99.215.73 (talk)

• If you can contact me at my talk page or via the FoWNC chairman we might be able to look further into this. Ephebi 09:44, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

• Would it be possible to amend this entry to "According to some family lore..." (or something like that)? This addition of a son has not been confirmed in almost two years since our initial discussion and while I wouldn't want to negate the possibility that William had a son, I also don't want this entry to be misleading (esp as this entry has fed into other online biographical sites, yet without the CN tag). Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr. Philip L. Tite (talk • contribs) 00:32, 21 July 2009 (UTC)