Henry Medd

Henry Alexander Nesbitt Medd OBE FRIBA[1][2] (21 September 1892 – 26 October 1977), was a British-born architect, whose career was made in India.

[3] 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.

[4] He was a keen sportsman at Abingdon, rowing bow for the first IV, for which he received Colours.

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.

He designed law courts at Nagpur (1937) and was Chief Architect to the Government of India (1939–47).