Background
Arthur Benison Hubback was born on April 13, 1871 in Liverpool, England. Son of Joseph Hubback (1814–1882), who was Lord Mayor of Liverpool in 1870 and a merchant, and Georgina (born Eliott-Lockhart).
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Boarding school
Malay College Kuala Kangsar
(The Malay College Kuala Kangsar is a premier residential ...)
The Malay College Kuala Kangsar is a premier residential school in Malaysia. It is an all-boys and all-Malay school in the royal town of Kuala Kangsar, Perak. The school is one of the only two boarding school in Malaysia that are under the royal patronage. Its royal patronage is the Conference of Rulers. It was awarded Cluster School of Excellence title by the Ministry of Education (Malaysia).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malay_College_Kuala_Kangsar
1905
Government Office
Sultan Abdul Samad Building
(The building is located in front of the Dataran Merdeka (...)
The building is located in front of the Dataran Merdeka (Independence Square) and the Royal Selangor Club, by Jalan Raja in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The structure takes its name from Sultan Abdul Samad, the reigning sultan of Selangor at the time when construction began. The building houses the offices of the Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture of Malaysia. It formerly housed the superior courts of the country: the Federal Court of Malaysia, the Court of Appeals and the High Court of Malaya. The Federal Court and the Court of Appeals had shifted to the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya during the early 2000s, while the High Court of Malaya shifted to the Kuala Lumpur Courts Complex in 2007.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Abdul_Samad_Building
1897
Hotel
Carcosa Seri Negara
(Carcosa Seri Negara is a luxury hotel on two adjacent hil...)
Carcosa Seri Negara is a luxury hotel on two adjacent hills inside the Lake Gardens, Kuala Lumpur. It is owned by the Malaysian Government. The hotel includes two colonial mansions, one named Carcosa, the other Seri Negara. The Carcosa mansion was built in 1896-1897 as the official residence of Sir Frank Swettenham, the first British High Commissioner in Malaya of the then Resident-General of the Federated Malay States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcosa_Seri_Negara
1897
mosque
Jamek Mosque
(Jamek Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in Kuala Lumpur...)
Jamek Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is located at the confluence of the Klang and Gombak River. The mosque has a Moorish, Indo-Saracenic or Mughal architecture. The Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sir Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah officially opened the mosque in 1909, two years after construction was completed. It was built on the first Malay burial ground in the city.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamek_Mosque
1909
Railway station
Kuala Lumpur railway station
(Kuala Lumpur railway station is a railway station located...)
Kuala Lumpur railway station is a railway station located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Completed in 1910 to replace an older station on the same site, the station was Kuala Lumpur's railway hub in the city for the Federated Malay States Railways and its successor Keretapi Tanah Melayu. The station is notable for its architecture, adopting a mixture of Eastern and Western designs. Hubback incorporated the unique Anglo-Asian architecture in the region on the station's design. The "Neo-Moorish/Mughal/Indo-Saracenic/Neo-Saracenic" style was not uncommon at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur_railway_station
1910
Social club
Royal Selangor Club
(The Royal Selangor Club is a social club in Kuala Lumpur,...)
The Royal Selangor Club is a social club in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, founded in 1884 by the British who ruled Malaya. The club is situated next to the Dataran Merdeka, or Independence Square, padang (field), and is accessible from Jalan Raja (Raja Road). The Club will play host to certain matches from the ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Selangor_Club
1884
Arthur Benison Hubback
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Arthur Benison Hubback was a British architect and soldier. He designed some important buildings in Malaysia (then called Malaya). At least 25 buildings in Malaysia are credited to Hubback as the architect, of which 13 are considered national treasures today. His projects have changed and characterized the landscape of many Malaysian towns and even, as some critics contend, reduced the significance of traditional Malay architecture.
Education
Arthur Hubback attended Fettes College in Edinburgh.
Career
In 1895, Hubback became chief draughtsman of Selangor public works department, which was then working on the government offices that are now Sultan Abdul Samad Building. After work on the building was finished in 1897, he worked in private practice for a few years, returning to public work in 1901. From then until the outbreak of World War I was a period of great construction projects, and he worked on buildings in Malaya and Hong Kong, from mosques to railway stations. His works include the Masjid Jamek Kuala Lumpur, the Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh Railway stations, the Royal Selangor Club, and the FMS Railways Central Offices (currently occupied by the National Textile Museum) and others.
His contemporaries said about him that “although a newcomer, his pen has designed some of the most beautiful ornaments in the building,massive staircase and central hall ceilings – all elegant in design and perfect in execution.” What made him special was the fact that he had the technical understanding of both the practice of architecture and surveying. It was this expertise which led to his architectural foresight in the tropics – positioning a building to catch even the faintest of breezes to then circulate along the stairwells and balconies, for example.
By 1914, Hubback had designed his last building for Malaya, the Ipoh Railway Station and Hotel, which was only completed in 1917 due to shortage of materials and high labour costs during the war. Built in an elegant neo-classical style, it reflected the wealth and importance of Ipoh town as one of the largest tin centres in the world, and was an apt parting masterpiece that still endures and inspires today.
In 1914 Hubback left for England and never returned to post-war Malaya again. He also left the architectural practice and pursued a military career with the British army.
Hubback took charge in the Federated Malay States Volunteer Rifles Force (M.S.V.R.) in 1907. He was appointed as a Major in the M.S.V.R. in 1910 and he was in command of F.M.S. Contingent to George V's coronation in 1911. He was then promoted as Lt. Colonel in the M.S.V.R. in 1912. In 1914, at the start of World War I, he became a major in the 19th battalion, London (territorial) regiment. In 1915, he was the Lt. Colonel commanding the 20th London Regiment Territorial Force, 47th Division B.E.F. He served in France, The Soanne, Brigadier of 19th and 20th London Battalion.He became Brigadier General of 2nd Infantry Brigade, 1st Division in 1916, and Brigadier General Co. of the 63rd Infantry Brigade, 37th Division B.E.F. in 1918. During the war he was mentioned in dispatches six times, and won the CMG and Distinguished Service Order. Following the war he continued in the military, commanding the 5th London infantry brigade of the territorial army from 1920 to 1924.
Works
Boarding school
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Malay College Kuala Kangsar
(The Malay College Kuala Kangsar is a premier residential ...)
1905
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Malay College Kuala Kangsar
Government Office
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Sultan Abdul Samad Building
(The building is located in front of the Dataran Merdeka (...)
1897
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Sultan Abdul Samad Building
Hotel
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Carcosa Seri Negara
(Carcosa Seri Negara is a luxury hotel on two adjacent hil...)
1897
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Carcosa Seri Negara
mosque
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Jamek Mosque
(Jamek Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in Kuala Lumpur...)
1909
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Jamek Mosque
Railway station
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Kuala Lumpur railway station
(Kuala Lumpur railway station is a railway station located...)
1910
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Kuala Lumpur railway station
Social club
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Royal Selangor Club
(The Royal Selangor Club is a social club in Kuala Lumpur,...)
1884
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Royal Selangor Club
Connections
Hubback married Margaret Rose Frances (Daisy) Voules, the sister of a colleague, in 1901 and they had two children, a son (Arthur Gordon VoulesHubback, R.N.) and a daughter (Yvonne Hubback).
