Joseph Fogerty

Joseph Fogerty
Born7 April 1831[1]
Died2 September 1899[1]
NationalityBritish / Irish (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
Occupation(s)Civil Engineer, Architect, Novelist
Known forRailway 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 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]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Irish Architectural Archive, Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720-1940.FOGERTY, JOSEPH(Accessed 12 Oct 2010)
  2. ^ Michael Sanderson, 'Fogerty, Elsie', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004-2009)