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Herbert James Rowse

For the British government he designed diplomatic buildings in 1951, built in Delhi and Karachi.

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Simon won an important Canadian commission in 1912, and Rowse worked in the firm's Winnipeg office in 1913.

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The assessor was Giles Gilbert Scott; Rowse's design won, beating those by the architects of the Port of London Authority building, Tower Hill (Sir Edwin Cooper); the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall (Mewis and Davis); the Wolseley building, Piccadilly (Curtis Green); and the Cunard Building (Willing and Dodd) and Mersey Docks and Harbour Board building (Arnold Thornley), both at the Pier Head, Liverpool.

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