A FINE C.V.O.TO VINCENT JEROME ESCH-AN EMINENT ARCHITECT IN INDIA

C.V.O. (Commander Of The Victorian Order) neck badge.In a quality (Spink?) case, with folding hinge for display and Ivorine label,which reads: VINCENT JEROME ESCH.C.V.O.COMMANDER OF THE ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER (1922).Also comes with original warrant dated 1922,signed by George V.
Order in very good condition, a few stain marks on warrant cert.
Vincent Jerome Esch, CVO, FRIBA was born on 20th July 1876 and was a British architect who worked in India. He is regarded as a pioneer of the Indo-Saracenic architectural style, which developed during the British rule in the Indian subcontinent.

Born in Blackheath, London,the Son of a Merchant Banker,he was educated at Mount St.Mary's college, and trained to be an Architect in London.He moved to India in 1898, and was appointed assistant engineer on the Bengal Nagpur Railway before setting himself up as an architect in Calcutta.
n 1914, he was invited to Hyderabad by the Nizam, to design some major public buildings. He designed the Kacheguda railway station, the High Court, the City College, and the Osmania General Hospital in Hyderabad He was in Hyderabad until 1921, then returned to Calcutta. He later returned to England, and died in 1950.He was also a very competent artist and in recent years several of his original designs in watercolours and pencil have appeared at Auction and fetched substantial sums.More information of his Buildings in India are available online along with the original sketches for his designs,
Please note the Order can be removed from the case with it's original felt backing at no extra postage,otherwise please contact me for a quote for postage or arrangement for delivery.

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