John Best (c.1839-1908)
Obituary 1908 [1]
The death took place on the 30th ult., at his home, Warriston House, Edinburgh, of Mr. John Best, the well-known contractor, who was associated with the carrying out of many important dock and railway undertakings in Scotland and elsewhere.
Mr. Best, who was sixty-nine years of age, was a native of Kilmarnock, and as a youth served his apprenticeship to the joinering trade under his uncle, Mr. William Scott, after whose death he became responsible for the completion of certain outstanding works. During his career Mr. Best was responsible for contracts in connection with the Monkland Railways; the Broughton and Peebles branch railway; the first graving dock of the Clyde Trustees at Govan; the Albert Dock, Edinburgh Dock, and Imperial Dock at Leith;...[more]