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, 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 John Fogerty in Limerick before entering the 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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- 1831 births
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- 19th-century Irish people
- Irish railway mechanical engineers
- British engineers
- Irish engineers
- People from Limerick (city)
- Alumni of University College London
- Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects
- Irish male novelists
- 19th-century British novelists
- 19th-century Irish architects
- 19th-century male writers
- 19th-century Irish novelists
- 19th-century Irish engineers