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SIR JOHN JAMES BURNET. LONDON, July 3. The death has occurred of Sir John James Burnet, architect. Sir John James Burnet was born in Glasgow in 1857 and was the younger son of a Glasgow architect. He was educated at Collegiate and Western Academy, Glasgow, and at the Ecoles des Beaux Arts, Paris. He designed many buildings in Glasgow and Edinburgh, including the Glasgow Atheneum, the head offices of the Clyde Navigation Trust and extensions to the university and infirmary at Glasgow. In London he designed the King Edward VIII Galleries, the British Museum extension, the Koda Building, the General Accident Assurance Co.’s building, the Institute of Chemistry, and Adelaide House. He received the gold medal of the R.1.8.A. in 1923, was twice a medalist of the Paris Salon, and was knighted in 1914. In 1925 he became an R.A., and he was an F.S.A. and F.R.1.8.A. He was chief architect in Palestine and Gallipoli for the Imperial War Graves Commission.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1938, Page 7
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