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Trained in England in the office of J McVicar Anderson; he was with HL (sic) Anderson for twenty-five years before coming to South Africa in 1929 where he joined the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT where he was appointed an architectural assistant in 1933. On evidence of building work, Muir appears to have worked for the PWD in the Cape. His Licentiate papers (1925) give no details of his career. LRIBA 1925; ISAA 1929. (ISAA mem list; LRIBA nom papers (1925) no detail; RIBA biog file; RIBA Jnl Nov 1955:38 obit: PSL 1936) Cape Town: Model of Groot Shuur (sic) Hospital (RIBA biog file)All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon. List of projects With photographs With notes
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