{{Short description|British architect (1892–1977)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person |name = Henry Alexander Nesbitt Medd |image = Medd, Henry Alexander Nesbitt (1892-1977) - 1st IV rowing 1910.jpg |image_size = |caption = Henry Alexander Nesbitt Medd pictured in the Abingdon School first IV rowing team |nationality = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|9|21|df=yes}} |birth_place = North Cerney |death_date = {{Death date and age|1977|10|26|1892|9|21|df=yes}} |death_place = Lambeth }}
'''Henry Alexander Nesbitt Medd''' OBE FRIBA<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Zc3AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Henry+Medd%22+|title=An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord|author=Whitaker. J|volume=83|date=1951|page=1050}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HtocAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Henry+Medd%22+master+art+workers+guild |title=Artists' Guide|date=1951|page=63}}</ref> (21 September 1892 – 26 October 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).<ref name=garht/>
==Early life and education== {{multiple image | align = right | image1 = Cathedral Church of the Redemption - New Delhi.jpg | width1 = 220 | alt1 = Left image alt text | caption1 = | image2 = Sacred Heart Cathedral (New Delhi).jpg | width2 = 150 | alt2 = Right image alt text | caption2 = | footer = Cathedral Church of the Redemption and Sacred Heart Cathedral, New Delhi, both 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 to 1910.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/flipping/SchoolRegister/files/assets/basic-html/index.html#page243|title=Register|publisher=Abingdon School}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/files/abingdonian/1910_April_V004_N017.pdf#page=3|title=Rowing|publisher=The Abingdonian}}</ref>
==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.<ref name=garht>{{cite news|title=A 'garden' in the centre of New Delhi|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/newdelhi/A-garden-in-the-centre-of-New-Delhi/Article1-707694.aspx|publisher=Hindustan Times|date=June 9, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022220905/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/newdelhi/A-garden-in-the-centre-of-New-Delhi/Article1-707694.aspx|archive-date=October 22, 2012}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=June 2012}}<!--source does not mention any of those team members-->
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).<ref>{{cite book |title=Stones of empire: the buildings of the Raj|author=Jan Morris|publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2005|isbn=0-19-280596-7 |page=176 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8zD1Ugfq9KwC&dq=Henry+Medd+architect&pg=PA176 }}</ref>
He was elected Master of the Art Workers' Guild in 1959.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/files/abingdonian/1978_June_V017_N002.pdf|title=Deaths|magazine=The Abingdonian|date=June 1978|volume=17|issue=2|page=57}}</ref>
==See also== * List of Old Abingdonians
== References == <references />
== External links == * [http://www.lutyenstrust.org.uk The Lutyens Trust]
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