Sir (Leslie) Patrick Abercrombie (1879–1957) by Howard Coster, 1944 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Abercrombie, Sir (Leslie) Patrick (1879–1957), town planner, was born on 6 June 1879 at Green Bank, Sale, Altrincham, one of a family of nine. His father, William Abercrombie (1838–1908), born in Bradford, was a Manchester stockbroker and businessman, with literary and artistic interests; his mother, ...
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Michael Simpson
Adams, Thomas (1871–1940), town and country planner, was born on 10 September 1871 at Meadow House Farm, Corstorphine, Edinburgh, the eldest of the four children of James Adams (1841/2–1888), dairyman, and his wife, Margaret, née Johnstone (1847/8–1899), housekeeper. Educated at Daniel Stewart's College...
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Adshead, Stanley Davenport (1868–1946), architect and town planner, was born at Bowden Vale, Bowden, Cheshire, on 8 March 1868. He was the second of eight children and eldest son of Joseph Adshead, an artist, and his wife, Eliza Davies. He was educated at ...
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Baines, Sir George Grenfell- (1908–2003), architect and town planner, was born George Grenfell Baines on 30 April 1908 at 11 Cecilia Street, Preston, the elder son (there were no daughters) of Ernest Charles Baines (1882–1950), railway clerk, and his wife, Sarah Elizabeth, née...
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Otto Saumarez Smith
Bor, Walter George (1916–1999), urban planner, was born Walter Buchbinder on 14 February 1916 in Vienna, the son of Ernest Buchbinder (1878–1943) and his wife, Emma (1885–1944). Ernest Buchbinder was a Czech-born chemical engineer who was then serving in ...
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Alan Powers
Brett, Lionel Gordon Baliol, fourth Viscount Esher (1913–2004), architect and town planner, was born on 18 July 1913 at Orchard Lea, Winkfield, in Windsor Forest, Berkshire, the eldest of three children and only son of Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett, from 1930 third Viscount Esher...
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Lionel Gordon Baliol Brett, fourth Viscount Esher (1913–2004) by Leonard Rosoman, 1978 © Leonard Henry Rosoman; Royal College of Art Collection
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Buchanan, Sir Colin Douglas (1907–2001), town planner, was born on 22 August 1907 in Simla, India, the son of William Ernest Buchanan, civil engineer, and his wife, Laura Kate Buchanan; he came from a long line of Scots civil engineers. Educated at Berkhamsted School...
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Otto Saumarez Smith
Burns, Sir Wilfred (1923–1984), urban planner, was born on 11 April 1923 at 100 Albert Road, Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, the son of Bertie Burns (1894–1929), hairdresser, and his wife, Annie, née Hurst. Following his father’s death, the family moved to ...
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Chamberlin, Peter Hugh Girard [Joe] (1919–1978), architect and town planner, was born at the Waldorf Hotel, Aldwych, London, on 31 March 1919, the son of Hugh Noel Girard Chamberlin, an army officer of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and his wife, Eleanor Penelope, ...
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Timothy Brittain-Catlin
Chesterton, Dame Elizabeth Ursula (1915–2002), architect and planner, was born on 12 October 1915 at 28 Willifield Way, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, the only child of Maurice Chesterton (1880–1962), builder turned architect, and his wife, Dorothy, née Deck (1888–1982). ...
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Conyngham, William Burton (1733–1796), politician and improver, was born William Burton in 1733, the second son of Francis Burton (1696–1743), politician and landowner, of Buncraggy, co. Clare, Ireland, and Mary Conyngham (d. 1737), the only surviving daughter of Major-General Henry Conyngham and the sister of ...
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Copcutt, Geoffrey (1928–1997), architect and urban planner, was born on 31 August 1928 at Four Acres, Oughtibridge, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the son of Allison Copcutt (1899–1973), a clerk in the county court, and his wife, (Elsie) Kathleen, née...
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Cullen, (Thomas) Gordon (1914–1994), architect and town planner, was born on 9 August 1914 at Trinity Lodge, Calverley, Yorkshire, the son of Thomas Hetherington Cullen, Wesleyan minister, and his wife, Mary Ann Mofatt. His parents were Scottish. The family lived in Runcorn and ...
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Lynne Walker
Denby, Elizabeth Marion (1894–1965), urban reformer, was born on 20 May 1894 at 95 Horton Road, Bradford, the second of the four daughters of Walter Denby (d. 1944), a doctor, and his wife, Clara Emma Bassett, a nurse. She was educated privately and at ...
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Derbyshire, Sir Andrew George (1923–2016), architect and planner, was born on 7 October 1923 at 6 Shearwood Road, Sheffield, the son of Samuel Reginald Derbyshire (1884–1961), master draper, and his wife Helen Louise Puleston, née Clarke (1884–1975). At the time of his birth registration the family lived at ...
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Gontran Goulden
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Edwards, (Arthur) Trystan (1884–1973), architectural critic and town planner, was born on 10 November 1884 at The Court, Merthyr Tudful. His father, William Edwards (1850–1940), was then HM inspector of schools for the Merthyr Tudful district and later chief inspector to the central Welsh school board; his mother was ...
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Peter J. Larkham
Fidler, Alwyn Gwilym Sheppard (1909–1990), architect, was born on 8 May 1909 at Dee Valley, Holywell, Flintshire, the son of William Ernest Fidler (1880–1912), a schoolteacher from Towcester, Northamptonshire, and his wife, Phoebe Maud, née Williams (d. 1951), of ...
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Forshaw, John Henry (1895–1973), architect and urban planner, was born on 6 September 1895 at Felton's Farm, Dalton, near Skelmersdale, Lancashire, the youngest of the three daughters and two sons of Henry Forshaw (1850–1927), farmer, and his wife, Ellen, née Haselden (b...
