Joseph Fogerty, CE, FRIBA, was an Irish civil engineer, architect, and novelist active in mid-to-late-nineteenth-century Limerick

Limerick

Limerick is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland, and the principal city of County Limerick and Ireland's Mid-West Region. It is the fifth most populous city in all of Ireland. When taking the extra-municipal suburbs into account, Limerick is the third largest conurbation in the...

, London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, and Vienna

Vienna

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Born in Limerick, he studied under his father, engineer John Fogerty

John Fogerty (engineer)

John Fogerty was an Irish millwright, architect, builder, civil engineer, active in early to mid-nineteenth-century Limerick.He was the brother of Joseph Fogerty Sr. and the father of engineer and novelist Joseph Fogerty of London, architect William Fogerty of Dublin, and grandfather of architect...

 in Limerick before entering the University College, London in 1856, later working in London for Sir John Fowler. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects

Royal Institute of British Architects

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 on 9 February 1880 after being proposed by Henry Currey, Edwin Nash

Edwin Nash

Edwin Nash FRIBA was an English Victorian ecclesiastical architect active in mid-nineteenth-century Kent, England. Most of his commissions were churches. He worked with architect John Nash Round) on St. John the Evangelist, Penge . Thereafter he worked alone. He proposed Joseph Fogerty to be a...

 and Charles Barry

Charles Barry

Sir Charles Barry FRS was an English architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsible for numerous other buildings and gardens.- Background and training :Born on 23 May 1795 in Bridge Street, Westminster...

. Three of his novels, Lauterdale, Caterina and Countess Irene, were published. He died at his house, Enderby, in Sydenham, Kent. He was the brother and uncle of architects William Fogerty

William Fogerty

William Fogerty, FRIAI, FRIBA, AAI was an Irish architect active in mid-nineteenth-century Limerick, London, New York City and Dublin.Born in Limerick, he studied in the early 1850s at Queen's College, Cork. He moved to Dublin in the early 1860s, to London and then New York in the early 1870s, and...

 and John Frederick Fogerty

John Frederick Fogerty

John Frederick Fogerty, ARIBA, was an Irish architect and engineer active in mid-to-late-nineteenth-century Limerick, London, Shropshire, Bournemouth, Pretoria, and Zambia. Born in Limerick, the son of architect William Fogerty, grandson of architect and engineer John Fogerty , and nephew of...

, respectively.