Patrick Abercrombie was an English town planner. He was born on June 6, 1879 in England, United Kingdom. He was educated at Uppingham School and apprenticed to architects in Manchester and Liverpool for six years before joining (1907) the staff of the University of Liverpool, where he later became a professor of civic design (1915–35). Early in his career, Abercrombie earned notice as the first editor of Town Planning Review and cowinner of an international competition to redesign Dublin (1916). In 1950 he received the AIA Gold Medal. In 1945 he published A Plan for the City & County of Kingston upon Hull, with the assistance of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Lutyens had died the year before publication whilst much of the plan was being finalised, and the plan was ultimately rejected by the Councillors of Hull. The Abercrombie Building at Oxford Brookes University is home to the Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment. He died on March 23, 1957 in Aston Tirrold, United Kingdom.