Joseph Fogerty
Joseph Fogerty | |
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| Born | 7 April 1831[1] |
| Died | 2 September 1899[1] |
| Nationality | British / Irish (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) |
| Occupation(s) | Civil Engineer, Architect, Novelist |
| Known for | Railway engineer, novelist |
Joseph Fogerty, CE,
FRIBA, (1831-1899) was an Irish civil engineer, architect, and novelist active in mid-to-late-nineteenth-century Limerick, London, and Vienna.[1]
Born in Limerick, he studied under his father, engineer
University College, London in 1856, later working in London for Sir John Fowler.[1] He was elected Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects on 9 February 1880 after being proposed by Henry Currey, Edwin Nash and Charles Barry.[1] Three of his novels, Lauterdale, Caterina and Countess Irene, were published. He died at his house, Enderby, in Sydenham.[1]
He was the brother and uncle of architects William Fogerty and John Frederick Fogerty, respectively. He married Hannah Cochrane (d. 1910), of Limerick and they had a daughter, Elsie Fogerty (born in Sydenham on 16 December 1865), who became a notable teacher of speech.[2]
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