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Samuel Swinton Jacob

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Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, (14 January 1841 – 4 December 1917) was a British Army officer and colonial engineer, architect and writer, best known for the numerous Indian public buildings he designed in the Indo-Saracenic style. [1]

47 relations: Addiscombe, Addiscombe Military Seminary, Albert Hall Museum, Bikaner, Bombay Army, British Army, Cheam School, Clan Swinton, Cornerstone, Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, Daly College, Edward VII, Edwin Lutyens, Frederick William Stevens, George Wittet, Henry Irwin, Herbert Baker, Hove, India, Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture, Indore, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kaisar-i-Hind Medal, Kashmiri Gate, Delhi, King George's Medical University, Kota, Rajasthan, Lalgarh Palace, Laxmi Niwas Palace, Lucknow, Madho Singh I, Mount Abu, Order of the Indian Empire, Peshawar, Peshawar Museum, Ram Niwas Garden, Ram Singh II, Rambagh Palace, Robert Chisholm (architect), Royal Navy, Shekhawati, St. Stephen's College, Delhi, The Times, Thomas Holbein Hendley, Weybridge, William Emerson (British architect), 1902 Coronation Honours.

Addiscombe

Addiscombe is an area of South London, England, within the London Borough of Croydon.

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Addiscombe Military Seminary

The East India Company Military Seminary was a British military academy at Addiscombe, Surrey, in what is now the London Borough of Croydon.

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Albert Hall Museum

The Albert Hall " is a museum in Rajasthan, India.

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Bikaner

Bikaner is a city in the northwest of the state of Rajasthan, India.

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Bombay Army

The Bombay Army was the army of the Bombay Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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Cheam School

Cheam School is a mixed preparatory school located in Headley, in the civil parish of Ashford Hill with Headley in the English county of Hampshire.

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Clan Swinton

Clan Swinton is a Lowland Scottish clan.

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Cornerstone

The cornerstone (or foundation stone or setting stone) is the first stone set in the construction of a masonry foundation, important since all other stones will be set in reference to this stone, thus determining the position of the entire structure.

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Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra

The coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 9 August 1902.

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Daly College

The Daly College is a co-educational residential and day boarding school located in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.

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Frederick William Stevens

Frederick William Stevens (11 November 1847 – 3 March 1900) was an English architectural engineer who worked for the British colonial government in India.

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George Wittet

George Wittet (1878-1926) was a Scottish architect who worked mostly in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.

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Henry Irwin

Henry Irwin CIE (24 January 1841–5 August 1922) was an architect of British India.

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Herbert Baker

Sir Herbert Baker (9 June 1862 – 4 February 1946) was an English architect remembered as the dominant force in South African architecture for two decades, and a major designer of some of New Delhi's most notable government structures.

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Hove

Hove is a town in East Sussex, England, immediately west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture

Indo-Saracenic Revival (also known as Indo-Gothic, Mughal-Gothic, Neo-Mughal, Hindoo style) was an architectural style mostly used by British architects in India in the later 19th century, especially in public and government buildings in the British Raj, and the palaces of rulers of the princely states.

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Indore

Indore is the most populous and the largest city in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

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Jaipur

Jaipur is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Rajasthan in Northern India.

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Jodhpur

Jodhpur is the second largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan and officially the second metropolitan city of the state.

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Kaisar-i-Hind Medal

The Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for Public Service in India was a medal awarded by the British monarch between 1900 and 1947, to "any person without distinction of race, occupation, position, or sex...

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Kashmiri Gate, Delhi

Kashmere Gate or Kashmiri Gate is a gate located in Delhi, it is the northern gate to the historic walled city of Delhi.

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King George's Medical University

King George's Medical University, formerly Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University, is a medical school located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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Kota, Rajasthan

Kota formerly known as Kotah, is a city located in the southeast of northern Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Lalgarh Palace

Lalgarh Palace is a palace and heritage hotel in Bikaner in the Indian state of Rajasthan, built for Sir Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner, between 1902 and 1926.

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Laxmi Niwas Palace

Laxmi Niwas Palace is a former residential palace of the king of the former Bikaner state, Mahārāja Ganga Singh, in Bikaner in the Indian state of Rajasthan.

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Lucknow

Lucknow is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and is also the administrative headquarters of the eponymous District and Division.

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Madho Singh I

Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh I was ruler of the state of Jaipur in the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan from 1750 to 1768.

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Mount Abu

Mount Abu is a popular hill station in the Aravalli Range in Sirohi district of Rajasthan state in western India, near the border with Gujarat.

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Order of the Indian Empire

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire is an order of chivalry founded by Queen Victoria in 1878.

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Peshawar

Peshawar (پېښور; پشاور; پشور) is the capital of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

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Peshawar Museum

The Peshawar Museum (پشاور میوزیم.(colloquial); پشاور عجائب گھر (official)) is a museum located in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

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Ram Niwas Garden

Ram Niwas Garden is a garden situated in Jaipur city in Indian state of Rajasthan, built by Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh of Jaipur in 1868.

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Ram Singh II

Ram Singh II was the Maharaja of Jaipur from 1835 until 1880.

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Rambagh Palace

The Rambagh Palace in Jaipur, Rajasthan is the former residence of the Maharaja of Jaipur and now a hotel, located outside the walls of the city of Jaipur on Bhawani Singh Road.

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Robert Chisholm (architect)

Robert Fellowes Chisholm (11 January 1840 - 28 May 1915) was a British architect who pioneered the Indo-Saracenic style of architecture in Madras.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Shekhawati

Shekhawati is a semi-arid historical region located in the northeast part of Rajasthan, India.

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St. Stephen's College, Delhi

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Thomas Holbein Hendley

Colonel Thomas Holbein Hendley CIE (21 April 1847 – 2 February 1917) was a British medical officer in the Indian Medical Service and an amateur authority on Indian art.

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Weybridge

Weybridge is a town by the River Wey in the Elmbridge district of Surrey.

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William Emerson (British architect)

Sir William Emerson (3 December 1843 – 26 December 1924) was a British architect, who remained President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), 1899 to 1902, and worked extensively in India.

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1902 Coronation Honours

The 1902 Coronation Honours were announced on 26 June 1902, the date originally set for the coronation of King Edward VII.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Swinton_Jacob

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