Arthur Benison Hubback

Arthur Benison Hubback
(A. B. Hubback)
Born
Arthur Benison Hubback

(1871-04-13)13 April 1871
Liverpool, England
Died8 May 1948(1948-05-08) (aged 77)
Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England
OccupationArchitect
Kuala Lumpur Railway Station (right) and Malay Railway Administration Building (left), both by Hubback

Arthur Benison Hubback CMG DSO FRIBA (13 April 1871 – 8 May 1948) was British Army officer and architect who designed several important buildings in British Malaya, in both Indo-Saracenic architecture and European "Wrenaissance" styles. Major works credited to him include Kuala Lumpur railway station, Ubudiah Mosque, Jamek Mosque, National Textile Museum, Panggung Bandaraya DBKL, Ipoh railway station, and Kowloon railway station.[1]

After an English training in Liverpool, he arrived in Malaya in 1895, and by 1900 was appointed chief government architect of the British-run Federated Malay States, returning to Britain in 1914 at the start of World War I, though he did not officially resign until 1917. Reversing the pattern of many British architects of the British Raj in India, he was an architect who became a soldier, commanding troops in France, and remaining in the army until his retirement in 1924. He was active in sports, especially football and cricket.[2] Hubback was promoted to brigadier general during his career in the British army.[3]

  1. ^ Speechley, Soon-Tzu (2023). Malayan Classicism: From the Architecture of Empire to Asian Vernacular. Bloomsbury. p. 34. ISBN 135036035X.
  2. ^ "Kuala Lumpur Sports". The Straits Times. 7 February 1902. Retrieved 17 June 2014.
  3. ^ "Untitled". The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser. 13 October 1917. Retrieved 17 June 2014.