(b Scotland, 1880; d 11 Oct 1926). Scottish architect, active in India. After completing his articles in Perth, he worked with Sir George Washington Browne in Edinburgh and later in York. In 1904 he went to Bombay as assistant to John Begg, and three years later he succeeded him as Consulting Architect to the Government of Bombay. He was most active between 1905 and 1919, after which he gave up government service for more lucrative local private commissions. The Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, Bombay, dominated by a huge tiled concrete dome and comprising a whole series of ranges based on a scholarly interpretation of the Muslim architecture of the Deccan, was commenced to his designs in 1904 (see MUSEUM, fig. 7, and BOMBAY, §1).

• Wittet, George
  • works
    • Bombay, §1(iii): History and urban development, after c 1900
    • City gate, §2(iii): Indian subcontinent
    • Museum, §II, 2: Architecture, 1850–1940