Herbert Baker - United Kingdom

United Kingdom

In 1913 Baker began his practice in London with his partner Alexander Scott. Near the end of the most productive phase of his career, Baker received a knighthood, was elected to the Royal Academy, had conferred on him the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1927, and received honorary degrees from Witwatersrand and Oxford Universities.

• War Memorial Building, Harrow on the Hill (English Heritage TQ1534987385)
• South Africa House, the South African High Commission building in Trafalgar Square, London
• India House, Aldwych (1925–1930), the Indian High Commission, opened by King George V on 8 July 1930.
• The mansion of Port Lympne (now a zoo) in Kent in south-east England
• One of the grandstands at Lord's Cricket Ground in London; Baker presented the Marylebone Cricket Club with Old Father Time, a weather vane in the shape of Father Time, which adorned his stand until it was replaced in 1996. The weather vane, now a famous symbol of the home of cricket, was moved to another stand at the ground.
• The North Range of Downing College Cambridge. The design was based on that of the original architect of the college, Williams Wilkins, but 'changed the original design just enough to annoy'
• Rebuilding of the Bank of England, London, demolishing most of Sir John Soane's original building. Described by Nikolaus Pevsner in 'Buildings of England' as "the greatest architectural crime, in the City of London, of the twentieth century".
• The War Cloister in Winchester College.
• Rhodes House in Oxford, headquarters of the Rhodes Scholarships.
• Goodenough College, London.

Baker died in Kent in 1946.