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Joseph Fogerty

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Joseph Fogerty
Born(1831-04-07)7 April 1831
Limerick, Ireland
Died2 September 1899(1899-09-02) (aged 68)
London
Occupations
  • Civil engineer
  • architect
  • 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]

Life

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Born in Limerick on 7 April 1831, Fogerty's parents were Elizabeth and John Fogerty, a civil engineer. He was the brother and uncle of architects William Fogerty and John Frederick Fogerty, respectively.[1]

Fogerty studied under his father in Limerick before entering the University College London in 1856 to study civil engineering.[1] He worked on the Severn Valley, London metropolitan railways as a surveyor,[2] as well as the Much Wenlock, and the Coalbrookdale and Craven Arms lines. Fogerty was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1863.[3]

Later, he worked in London for Sir John Fowler.[1] From 1865, he worked as an architect, constructing factories, water and steampower mills in Ireland, private houses around London,[3] and designing an elevated railway in Vienna.[2] 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]

He was also an author, with three of his novels, Lauterdale, Caterina and Countess Irene, being published.[2]

Fogerty died at his house, Enderby, in Sydenham on 2 September 1899.[1] He married Hannah Cochrane (died 1910), of Limerick and they had a daughter, Elsie Fogerty (born in Sydenham on 16 December 1865), who became a notable teacher of speech.[4]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "FOGERTY, JOSEPH [2]". Dictionary of Irish Architects. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 "Author: Joseph Fogerty". www.victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 9 April 2026.
  3. 1 2 "OBITUARY. JOSEPH FOGERTY, 1831-1899". Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 139 (1900): 353–354. 1900. doi:10.1680/imotp.1900.18596. ISSN 1753-7843.
  4. Michael Sanderson, 'Fogerty, Elsie', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004-2009)
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