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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon BLOW, Detmar Jellings Born: 1867 Died: 1939 Architect An English architect, did not visit South Africa but was responsible for the design of the pedestal of the Jan van Riebeeck statue in the Heerengracht in Cape Town in about 1910. He and F Billerey also designed Government House in Salisbury (Harare), Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) (now State House, Harare, Zimbabwe) in 1910 (cf Jackson 1986:100) and altered and extended Government House, Bulawayo (1910) which work was supervised by F SCOTT. (Jacks 1979; Jackson 1986; Lantern Aug 1979:79; Gray 1985:117-18) 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.