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This being St. Patrick's day, I was curious about how many Irish
engineers and scientists had been profiled on CR4. Wikipedia provides a list of 48 Irish
engineers of which CR4 has profiled two:
William Mulholland and Peter
Rice. (None of the 33 Irish
scientists have been profiled.)
In order to remedy this in the quickest way possible I decided to
write about a whole family of engineers - the Fogertys.
The first thing you've got to get straight about the Fogertys is
that their naming logic didn't follow traditional convention. Joseph Fogerty Sr.'s nephew was his namesake,
rather than one of his sons. (The
original Joseph Fogerty didn't get the title, either.) Here's a chart that explains the family
relationships a little better:
John
Fogerty and Joseph Fogerty Sr.
John Fogerty and Joseph Fogerty Sr. were brothers that were born
to a family of builders in Limerick in the early 1800s. John was a millwright, civil engineer,
architect, and builder who built the Limerick Athenaeum and St. John's Square
in Limerick. He proposed the New
Limerick Custom House for Commissioners of Customs.
Joseph, his brother, was a
builder and architect. He built several houses and the Theatre Royal on Henry
Street.
John
Fogerty's Sons: Joseph and William
John had two sons - Joseph and William. Joseph was a civil engineer, architect, and
novelist. He studied both under his
father and at the University College, London.
After college he worked as an assistant on railway projects for John
Fowler in London and later constructed water and steam power mills and
factories in Ireland. Joseph created a
plan for an elevated rail system in Vienna which was used in a modified form in
1882. He was elected Fellow of the Royal
Institute of British Architects in 1880 and published three novels - Lauterdale, Caterina, and Countess Irene.
William was another student of Queen's College, Cork. While he was there he helped plan a new road
to the college. He later went into an
architectural partnership with his father in Limerick where the pair designed a
villa and town hall for the Limerick Art Exhibition in 1858. William eventually moved to New York where he
delivered a paper on architecture in America.
He later returned to Limerick.
Joseph Fogerty
Sr.'s Sons: Robert and George
Joseph also had two sons, Robert and George. Robert, like his cousin Joseph, attended the
school of engineering at Queen's College, Cork and worked as an assistant on
railway projects for John Fowler in London.
He worked for a time in India in the department of public works. Upon returning to Limerick Robert entered
into an architectural partnership with his father.
George served in Egypt as a fleet surgeon in the Royal Navy.
William
Fogerty's Son: John Frederick
John Frederick Fogerty was William's son. He studied at Queen's College, Cork and
received a bachelor's degree in engineering in 1883. In addition to following the family line of
work in Limerick, he branched out as an architect in London, Shropshire, and Bournemouth. He also worked at Pretoria's public works
department, and in Zambia as a borough surveyor. John Frederick served in South Africa, the
Isle of Wright, Palestine, and India during World War I.
Robert
Fogerty's Sons: John and George
Robert Fogerty had at least five sons. George is noted as having hand-colored maps
of property in Limerick for the Limerick City Council.
And that's the story of a whole bunch of Johns and Josephs helping
to engineer things in Ireland and across the globe! How many engineers are there in your family?
Resources:
Dictionary
of Irish Architects 1720-1940, Limerick
Museum, Limerick
City, ancestry.co.uk
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