George Wittet

George Wittet ( b. 1878 in the United Kingdom, † 1926 in Bombay ) was a British architect.

Life

Was Wittet in Blair Atholl, Scotland, born in 1878. He studied architecture in Perth, Scotland. After that he worked as an architect in Edinburgh and York. In 1904 he moved to India, where he worked as an assistant to the architect John Begg in Mumbai. Both architects created in Mumbai building in the then popular Indo-Saracenic style of architecture. On May 12, 1917 Wittet was elected the first President of the Indian Institute of Architects. As an architect in Mumbai, he created buildings that apply to the present as a significant tourist attractions in Mumbai. This requires, inter alia, the Gateway of India, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, the Institute of Science, the Small Causes Court include in Mumbai in Dhobitalao, the Wadia Maternity Hospital, Bombay House, the King Edward Memorial Hospital and The Grand Hotel at the Mumbai docks. Wittet died in 1926 in Mumbai from acute dysentery and is buried in the cemetery Sewri.