William Holford
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The Right Honourable The Lord Holford RA |
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| Born |
22 March 1907 Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Died | 17 October 1975 (aged 68) London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | Royal Gold Medal (1963) |
| Buildings |
Clarendon House, Oxford |
| Projects |
Canberra, Australia |
Clarendon House, Oxford
Canberra, Australia
William Graham Holford, Baron Holford RA (22 March 1907 – 17 October 1975) was a British architect and town planner.
Holford was educated at Diocesan College, Cape Town and returned to Johannesburg. From 1925–30 he studied architecture at the University of Liverpool, where he won the British Prix de Rome in Architecture to the British School at Rome in 1930. While in Rome he met British mural painter Marjorie Brooks, who had independently won the British Prix de Rome for Painting, and married her in 1933.
He was a lecturer at the University of Liverpool from 1933 and succeeded Patrick Abercrombie as Professor of Civic Design there in 1937. In 1948 he again succeeded Abercrombie as Professor of Town Planning at University College, London; a post he held until he retired in 1970.
Holford was knighted in 1953 and on 29 January 1965 he was made a life peer as Baron Holford, of Kemp Town in the County of Sussex by the Wilson Government, the first town planner to be made a Lord. He served as president of the Royal Town Planning Institute 1953–54, and of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1960–62.
Holford was heavily involved with the development of post-World War II British town planning and was largely responsible for drafting the Town and Country Planning Act 1947.
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