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On this day, 9 June 1862

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Birth of the English architect Sir Herbert Baker

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Baker designed major government buildings in South Africa, Rhodesia, Kenya and India, where he collaborated with his friend Sir Edwin Lutyens on a new government complex in New Delhi. Baker also rebuilt the Bank of England in 1921-42, controversially razing Sir John Soane’s earlier building.

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