Abercrombie, Sir (Leslie) Patrick (1879–1957). Influential British architect and town-planner. He worked at the University of Liverpool (1907–9) under ( Sir) C. H. Reilly and S. D. Adshead , edited the Town Planning Review , and produced a series of reports on the growth and condition of several European cities. After Adshead was appointed to the Chair of Town Planning at University College London, Abercrombie became Professor of Civic Design at Liverpool in 1915, a post he held until 1935, when he succeeded Adshead in London. During those twenty years Abercrombie produced a multitude of studies and reports on many areas in England and Wales, and, during his ...