Clifford Holliday

• Name — Albert Clifford Holliday • Born — 21 December 1897 • Birthplace — Gildersome, England • Died — 26 September 1960 • Place of death — Manchester, England • Education — University of Liverpool • Significant Design — Master plan of Jerusalem • Illustration — Holliday's city plan for Jerusalem (1930)

Holliday gained his qualifications at the University of Liverpool where he studied under Sir Charles Reilly and Patrick Abercrombie. He later designed the University of Ceylon with Abercrombie.

Holliday was commissioned as civic adviser to the city of Jerusalem between 1922 and 1926 and town planning advisor to the mandatory government of Palestine between 1928 and 1934. He drew up a master plan for Jerusalem and the restoration of its Old City walls.

In 1938, Holliday's design for a satellite town near Kincorth, outside Aberdeen, won an international prize. In 1947, he was appointed Chief Architect for the first postwar British new town, Stevenage. He revised the plan for Stevenage, from the Ministry of Town and Country Planning's original plan, in 1949. In 1952 Holliday became Professor of Town and Country Planning at the University of Manchester. He was also involved in preparing the designs for Haslingden and Stoke-on-Trent.

Holliday had four sons.

• St John Ophthalmic Hospital's new wing, opened in 1930. Since the 1960s an arts and crafts center, the Jerusalem House of Quality. • St Andrew's Church, aka the Scots Memorial Church (1930) • Old Town Hall (1930) • British and Foreign Bible Society Building (1926-28), 7 Yohanan MeGush Halav Street, now 8 Safra Square, currently housing municipality offices.

• University of Ceylon, together with Patrick Abercrombie.

• Colombo • Gibraltar • Stevenage New Town

• Jaffa • Jerusalem • Haifa Center–HaShmona railway station (inaugurated in 1937) • Lydda – C. Holliday in 1829, followed later by Otto Polchek • Netanya • Ramla • Tiberias

• Illustration — Ophthalmic Hospital Jerusalem, new wing seen from St Andrew's Church (1934-39) • Illustration — Ophthalmic Hospital, today's Jerusalem House of Quality • Illustration — Bible Society Building, design: A. Clifford Holliday's firm, Jerusalem, 1926-28 • Illustration — Barclay's building, design: A. Clifford Holliday's firm, Jerusalem, 1939 • Illustration — St. Andrew's Church, design: A. Clifford Holliday's firm, Jerusalem, opened 1930