George Moyers
Sir George Moyers (11 May 1836 – 4 November 1916) was an Anglo-Irish architect, engineer and politician.
Moyers was the son of William Moyers. He was educated at Bellevue House, Bristol and Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1856. He did a five-year architectural apprenticeship with his brother-in-law, Edward Henry Carson (father of Edward Carson), and worked in London for the engineers George Legg and William Dempsey. By 1863, he had taken over his father's building contractor business in South Richmond Street, Dublin. In 1891 he opened a new architecture and civil engineering business with his son, Lambert Moyers, in Foster Place.[1]
From 1875 he was a Justice of the Peace for Dublin and was later made a Deputy Lieutenant for the city. He was elected an alderman for the Southside, Dublin in 1880 and was elected Lord Mayor of Dublin as a Conservative in 1881. He was knighted in the 1887 Golden Jubilee Honours.[2]
References
- ^ Moyers, George (Sir), Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720–1940. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- ^ "No. 25712". The London Gazette (Supplement). 21 June 1887. p. 3361.
- 1836 births
- 1916 deaths
- 19th-century Anglo-Irish people
- 20th-century Anglo-Irish people
- Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
- Architects from Dublin (city)
- Conservative Party (UK) politicians
- Deputy Lieutenants of Dublin (city)
- Irish civil engineers
- Irish justices of the peace
- Knights Bachelor
- Lord Mayors of Dublin
- Engineers from Dublin (city)