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1869–1944 England

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was a British architect best known for having an instrumental role in designing and building New Delhi.

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If one was told that monkeys had built it, one could only say, 'What wonderful monkeys — they must be shot in case they do it again.'

It is inconceivable — and consequently very English! — to have a capital as Simla is entirely of tin roofs, and then the tin roofs monkeying better materials and reducing the whole show to absurdity.

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