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{{Refimprove|date = January 2015}}'''George Wittet''' (1878-1926) was a Scottish architect who worked mostly in [[Mumbai]], India.<br />
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==Biography==<br />
[[File:KPTKarachi1.jpg|thumb|Wittet designed the [[Karachi Port Trust Building]].]]<br />
George Wittet was born in [[Blair Atholl]], [[Scotland]] in 1878. He studied architecture with a Mr. Heiton of [[Perth, Scotland]], and worked in [[Edinburgh]] and [[York]] before moving to [[India]]. <br />
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Wittet arrived in India in 1904 and became an assistant to [[John Begg]], then Consulting Architect to Mumbai. The two men were responsible for the evolution and subsequent popularity of the [[Indo-Saracenic]] Style of [[architecture]]. <br />
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On 12 May 1917, Wittet, by then Consulting Architect to the Government of Mumbai, was unanimously elected as the first President of The [[Indian Institute of Architects]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iia-india.org/MainPage.aspx?Sel=141 |title=Presidents |publisher=Indian Institute of Architects |accessdate=16 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730095406/http://www.iia-india.org/MainPage.aspx?Sel=141 |archivedate=30 July 2012 |df=dmy }}</ref><br />
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Wittet designed some of Mumbai's best known landmarks: the [[Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya|Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Saghralaya]], the [[Gateway of India]], the [[The Institute of Science, Mumbai|Institute of Science]], the [[Small Causes Court]] at [[Dhobitalao]], the Wadia Maternity Hospital, [[Bombay House]], the [[Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College and King Edward Memorial Hospital|King Edward Memorial Hospital]], the Grand Hotel and other buildings at the [[Ballard Estate]], by the [[Mumbai Port Trust|Mumbai Docks]]. <br />
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In [[Karachi]], he designed the [[Karachi Port Trust]] (KPT) building.<ref>[http://www.kpt.gov.pk/pages/default.aspx?id=48 History] KPT official website Retrieved 5 August 2013</ref><br />
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With [[John Begg]] he developed and popularised the [[Indo-Saracenic]] style in architecture.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://theory.tifr.res.in/bombay/persons/george-wittet.html | title=George Wittet | publisher=The Mumbai Pages | accessdate=16 August 2012}}</ref><br />
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He died of [[acute dysentery]] in Mumbai in 1926, and is buried in the [[Sewri cemetery]].<br />
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