(b Gildersome, W. Yorks, 21 Dec 1897; d Manchester, 26 Sept 1960). English architect and urban planner. On graduating from the University of Liverpool in Architecture and Civic Design, he went to Palestine (1922), succeeding C. R. Ashbee as Civic Adviser to the City of Jerusalem. In 1927 he began private practice, serving also as Town Planning Adviser to the Palestine Government. In these various capacities, he was central to many major planning proposals, including the master plan (1926–30) of Jerusalem, the restoration of the walls and gates of the Old City and, together with Patrick Abercrombie, a regional plan (1933–66) for Haifa Bay, for the Jewish National Fund. His work in Jerusalem was traditional, responding sensitively to local climate, materials and culture: Barclays Bank, the ‘Khan’ of St John’s Ophthalmic Hospital (1929–30) and his undisputed masterpiece, St Andrew’s Church of Scotland (1927–30). With the Israeli architect Richard Kauffmann he planned the Reclamation Area (1929–31) in Haifa, adjacent to the new harbour; later, as consulting architect (1933–7), he set the architectural guidelines for its development: an exercise in civic design innovative in process, impressive in extent and urbane in character.

• Holliday, A(lbert) Clifford
  • Jerusalem, §I, 4: History and urban development, after 1917