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Medd, Henry (Alexander Nesbitt)
(b North Cerney, Glos, 21 Sept 1892; d 26 Oct 1977). English architect, active in India. He was the son of Peter Goldsmith Medd, an Anglican clergyman and one of the founders of Keble College, Oxford. In 1911 he was articled to F. C. Eden (1884–1944), a designer of churches and ecclesiastical fittings, from whom he acquired a love of the Italian Renaissance. In 1915 Medd worked in Edwin Lutyens’s London office on the designs for New Delhi before starting war work as a turner. In 1919 he applied to be Herbert Baker’s second representative at New Delhi, where, until 1931, he supervised the construction of the secretariats and other public buildings to Baker’s designs.
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