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Inglis, Sir Claude Cavendish

Inglis, Sir Claude Cavendish (1883–1974), irrigation and hydraulics engineer, was born 3 March 1883 in Dublin, sixth among seven children (six sons and one daughter) of Sir Malcolm Inglis, a wealthy gentleman, and Caroline Inglis (née Johnston), both of Scotland. Educated in Ireland…

Ingram, John

Ingram, John (1887–1973), engineer, educationalist, and civil servant, was born 5 February 1887 in Derry, the son of William John Ingram, of Shipquay Street, Derry, a civil service clerk. He attended the Londonderry model school as a presbyterian, before transferring to St Columb'…

Jeffcott, Henry Homan

Jeffcott, Henry Homan (1877–1937), engineer, was born 6 February 1877 at Muff Lodge, Co. Donegal, second son of William Jeffcott, land agent and magistrate, and his wife Ellen (née Roche?). He was educated at the High School, Dublin, and TCD…

Jessop, William

Jessop, William (1745–1814), civil engineer, was born 23 January 1745 in Devonport, Plymouth, Devon, eldest child among two sons and a daughter of Josias Jessop, naval shipwright, and Elizabeth Jessop (née Foot). His modest circumstances might have precluded meteoric advancement in…

Johnston, William

Johnston, William (c.1680s–1754), landowner and waterworks designer, was probably born in Scotland some time in the late seventeenth century, son of John Johnston of Scotland, who left his native soil soon after the Glencoe massacre (1692). Little is known of Johnston's…

Kettle, Laurence J.

Kettle, Laurence J. (1878–1960), political activist and electrical engineer, was born 27 February 1878 at Kilmore, Artane, north Co. Dublin, second son among five sons and six daughters of Andrew J. Kettle (qv), ‘progressive’…

Killaly, Hamilton Hartley

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Killaly, John A.

Killaly, John A. (1766–1832), surveyor and canal engineer, was born in England. He may have worked for some time on several English canals before settling in Ireland as a surveyor. He initially did some freelance work for the Grand Canal Company, but his work sufficiently impressed…

Kyan, John Howard

Kyan, John Howard (1774–1850), brewer and inventor, was born 27 November 1774 in Dublin, son of John Howard Kyan (d. 1804), mining engineer, of Mount Howard and Ballymurtagh, Co. Wicklow. The United Irishman Esmond Kyan (qv) who was hanged…

Langley, John

Langley, John (1863–1945), civil engineer, was born 28 September 1863 at Tay Lodge, Co. Waterford, youngest of three sons of Charles Langley and Margaret Langley (née Welsby), whose family came from Liverpool. Although their home had only been acquired in 1850 the Langleys had a…

Langrishe, Richard

Langrishe, Richard (1834–1922), architect and engineer, was born 6 November 1834 in Knocktopher Abbey, Kilkenny, younger son among two sons and one daughter of Rev. Sir Hercules Langrishe, politician and clergyman, and Maria Langrishe (née Cottingham) of Somerville, Co. Cavan.…

Lanyon, Sir Charles

Lanyon, Sir Charles (1813–89), civil engineer and architect, was born 6 January 1813 at Eastbourne, Sussex, third son of John Jenkinson Lanyon, purser in the Royal Navy, and Catherine Lanyon (née Mortimer). Privately educated locally, he was articled under Jacob Owen (from 1832 of…

Lartigue, Charles François Marie Thérèse

Lartigue, Charles François Marie Thérèse (1834–1907), civil engineer and business entrepreneur, was born on 14 June 1834 in Toulouse, France, of possible Spanish ancestry; his parents’ names are unknown. As a young man Lartigue shared the infectious optimism of contemporary British and…

Lecky, Robert John

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Le Fanu, William Richard

Le Fanu, William Richard (1816–94), civil engineer and commissioner of public works, was born 24 February 1816 in the Royal Hibernian Military School, Phoenix Park, Dublin, youngest child among two sons and a daughter of the Very Rev. Thomas Philip Le Fanu (1784–1845), dean of…

Logier, Johann Bernhard

Logier, Johann Bernhard (1777–1846), pedagogue, composer, arranger, inventor, concert promoter, and music publisher and seller, was born 9 February 1777 in Kassel, Germany, the son of Johann Jacob Logier (1736–84), an organist and violinist, and Christina Elizabeth Gotze (1742–87…

Ludgate, Percy

Ludgate, Percy Edwin (1883–1922), pioneer in digital computing, was born 2 August 1883 at the house of his parents, Michael Ludgate and Mary (née McMahon), in Townsend Street, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, the youngest of at least eight children. His father taught shorthand, later joined by…

Lynam, James Perry O'Flaherty ('Joss')

Lynam, James Perry O'Flaherty ('Joss') (1924–2011), mountaineer and engineer, was born on 29 June 1924 in London, one of two children (a boy and a girl) of Edward Lynam, an authority on map-making and keeper of maps in the British Museum, and his wife Martha (née Perry), both of…

Lynch, Arthur Alfred

Lynch, Arthur Alfred (1861–1934), polymath and politician, was born 16 October 1861 at Smythesdale, Victoria, Australia, fourth among fourteen children of John Lynch, surveyor and civil engineer, and Isabella Lynch (née MacGregor), a native of Perth, Scotland. His father, originally…

Lyster, George Fosbery

Lyster, George Fosbery (1822–99), civil engineer, was born 7 September 1822 at Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon, third son of Lt-col. Anthony Lyster (23rd Light Dragoons), high sheriff of the county and member of an old propertied family of Yorkshire descent, and his wife, Jane, second…

MacEntee, Sean (John) Francis

MacEntee, Sean (John) Francis (1889–1984), revolutionary, politician, and engineer, was born 1 January 1889 at Mill St., Belfast, eldest among seven children of James MacEntee, publican, and Mary MacEntee (née Owens), who both came from Co. Monaghan. James MacEntee owned three public…

MacIlwaine, John Bedell Stanford

MacIlwaine, John Bedell Stanford (1857–1945), landscape painter and inventor, was born 21 April 1857 in Dublin, the son of John S. MacIlwaine, a banker. He was educated at the High School, Harcourt St., before studying architecture under

Mackie, James

Mackie, James (1864–1943), engineer, was the elder son among two sons and a daughter of James Mackie (1821/3–1887) engineer, born in Dumfries, Scotland, and Mary Mackie (née Miller; m. 1860) from Broughshane, Co. Antrim. James Mackie senior came to Ireland in 1843; though only just…

Mackie, James

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Macneill, Sir John Benjamin

Macneill, Sir John Benjamin (1793–1880), civil engineer, was born 5 May 1793 at Mount Pleasant, Ballymascanlan, Dundalk, Co. Louth, the only son of Torquil Parks Macneill, a captain in the Louth militia, and his wife, Suzanna Macneill (née Thomson) of Ravensdale. He had two sisters…