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The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, is the main museum in Mumbai, formerly Bombay.
Prince of Wales Museum
The
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, formerly Prince of
Wales Museum of Western India, is the main museum in Mumbai, formerly
Bombay. Wikipedia
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The museum building was completed in 1915, but was used as a Children's Welfare Centre and a Military Hospital during the First World War, before being handed over to the committee in 1920. The Prince of Wales Museum was inaugurated on January 10, 1922, by Lady Lloyd, the wife of George Lloyd, Governor of Bombay
Lady Hardinge Red Cross Hospital Bombay.1915
LORD AND LADY HARDINGE
British women have played an important part in the history of our Government in India.
The wives of the Governors-general and Viceroys of India have, like those of lesser degree, faced danger and hardships, and have discharged the duties of their position with courage and a high sense of duty-some, indeed, have given their lives for India.
lady of quality late Coronation festivities made special demands upon the Viceregal Court.
To be the Vicereine of India is at once the most regal, brilliant, and picturesque position held by any woman under the past when the wife of India's ruler dare not give shelter to the child-wife pleading to escape from death on her husband's funeral pyre. Suttee has been abolished and great advances made in the position of our sisters in India. The manner in which successive Vicereines have striven to further reforms is illustrated by the Countess of Dufferin Fund, the Victoria Memorial Scholarship Fund, founded by the late Lady Curzon for the training of native midwives, and the
Lady Minto Nursing Association. Lady Hardinge of Penshurst, who succeeds Lady Minto as Vicereine, in formulating a scheme for promoting the training of native women as doctors.
Native bullock wagons making for Victoria Dock, Bombay.
This view was taken from the Bombay Post Office steps. Notice the swarms of pigeons, the natives feed & worship them.
Municipal offices, Bombay.1915[can see the kerosene street light on the road]
Bombay
was originally the Lady Hardinge Hospital, built in 1915 as a general hospital for the Lahore and Meerut Indian divisions. It was constructed in the shape of a capital E, like the large country houses of the Elizabethan period. The perpendicular line contained the headquarters and administrative quarters; the two horizontal lines were corridors, each with its series of wards and side rooms. The small central horizontal line was a corridor leading to an operating theatre and to a large double cookhouse, as the sick and wounded Indian troops belonged to two religions, Hindu and Moslem, each requiring different diets...."
The museum building was completed in 1915, but was used as a Children's Welfare Centre and a Military Hospital during the First World War, before being handed over to the committee in 1920. The Prince of Wales Museum was inaugurated on January 10, 1922, by Lady Lloyd, the wife of George Lloyd, Governor of Bombay.
The Right Honourable The Lord Lloyd GCSI GCIE PC DSO |
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Governor of Bombay | |
In office 16 December 1918 – 8 December 1923 |
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Monarch | George V |
Preceded by | Marquess of Willingdon |
Succeeded by | Sir Leslie Orme Wilson |
High Commissioner in Egypt | |
In office 1925–1929 |
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Monarch | George V |
Preceded by | The Viscount Allenby |
Succeeded by | Sir Percy Loraine, Bt |
Secretary of State for the Colonies | |
In office 12 May 1940 – 4 February 1941 |
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Monarch | George VI |
Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
Preceded by | Malcolm MacDonald |
Succeeded by | The Lord Moyne |
Leader of the House of Lords | |
In office December 1940 – 4 February 1941 |
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Monarch | George VI |
Prime Minister | Winston Churchill |
Preceded by | The Viscount Halifax |
Succeeded by | The Lord Moyne |
Personal details | |
Born | 19 September 1879 Olton Hall[1] |
Died | 4 February 1941 (aged 61) |
Nationality | British |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | Hon. Blanche Lascelles (1880–1969) |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
George Wittet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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George Wittet (1878-1926) was a Scottish architect who worked mostly in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. Life[edit]. George Wittet was born in Blair Atholl, .
George Wittet
Architect
George Wittet was a Scottish architect who worked mostly in Bombay, India. Wikipedia
Born: 1878, Blair Atholl, United Kingdom
Died: 1926