William Whitfield

Sir William Whitfield (21 October 1920 – 16 March 2019) was a British architect and town planner.

Early life Whitfield was born in Stockton-on-Tees into a coal-owning family and studied architecture at King's College, Newcastle (later the Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape), where he was admitted by a special dispensation at the unusually early age of 15, and where he later studied Town Planning after the Second World War. In 1970 a major bush-hammered concrete Brutalist extension to Whitfield's design was opened at Arthur Beresford Pite and John Belcher's 1890-1893 Institute of Chartered Accountants headquarters, Chartered Accountants' Hall, including a new entrance. He also designed the 1987 Department of Health building, Richmond House in Richmond Terrace, Whitehall, London.

He was Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral from 1985 to 1990, architect for the restoration of Christ Church Spitalfields, a Commissioner of English Heritage, Commissioner of the Royal Fine Art Commission and a Trustee of the British Museum. and knighted in the 1993 New Year Honours for services to architecture.