Henry Medd

Henry Alexander Nesbitt Medd (September 21, 1892 - October 26, 1977), was a British-born architect, whose career was made in India. He is most known for being in the team of architects, team led by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, which designed the new capital of India, New Delhi (1911–1931).Post inauguration of New Delhi, when most of architects left, he stayed on, designed many more buildings and eventually remained, Chief Architect to the Government of India (1939–47).[1]

Henry Alexander Nesbitt Medd
Henry Alexander Nesbitt Medd pictured in the Abingdon School first IV rowing team
Born(1892-09-21)21 September 1892
North Cerney
Died26 October 1977(1977-10-26) (aged 85)
Lambeth

Early life and education
Cathedral Church of the Redemption and Sacred Heart Cathedral, New Delhi designed by Medd

Son of the Reverend Canon Peter Medd of North Cerney, Cirencester, a founder of Keble College, Oxford, Henry Medd was a Young and Summers Scholar at Abingdon School, from 1906-1910.[2] He was a keen sportsman at Abingdon, rowing bow for the first IV, for which he received Colours. He was a 2nd XI footballer, was a competent gymnast and enjoyed debating.[3]

Career

He was articled to F. C. Eden (1911) and entered the office of Sir Edwin Lutyens (1915). The team included, apart from him, architects like Robert Tor Russell, William Henry Nicholls, C. G. Blomfield, Walter Sykes George, F. B. Blomfield and Arthur Gordon Shoosmith, which designed numerous buildings in Lutyens' Delhi.[1]

He was Sir Herbert Baker's representative in New Delhi (1919–31) and designed the Cathedral Church of the Redemption and the Sacred Heart Cathedral, New Delhi (1927–28). He designed law courts at Nagpur (1937) and was Chief Architect to the Government of India (1939–47).[4]

He was Master of the Art Workers Guild (1959).

See also

References
  1. "A 'garden' in the centre of New Delhi". Hindustan Times. June 9, 2011. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012.
  2. "Register". Abingdon School.
  3. "Rowing" (PDF). The Abingdonian.
  4. Jan Morris (2005). Stones of empire: the buildings of the Raj. Oxford University Press. p. 176. ISBN 0-19-280596-7.
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