Life
1761-1827; b. Armagh; himself the son of an architect and author of St
George’s Church, Temple St.; also the Chapel Royal and the GPO; completed
adaptation of Houses of Parliament; made alterations to the Vice-Regal
Lodge; designed Townley Hall (later the agricultural station of TCD);
appt. adviser the Nelson Pillar project, 1808-09; involved in est. RHA,
1823, of which he was president for some years, and whose in Abbey St.
building he designed (destroyed in the 1916 Rising). DIH
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Notes
See Christine Case & Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland,
North Leinster (Penguin) and other architectural survey-histories.
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