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…...
Larcom, Sir Thomas Aiskew
Larcom, Sir Thomas Aiskew (1801–79), surveyor, administrator, and under-secretary for Ireland (1853–68), was born 22 April 1801 in Hampshire, one of five children of Captain Joseph Larcom (d. 1817), RN, who administered a dockyard in Malta, and his wife…...
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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Lecky, Squire Thornton Stratford
Lecky, Squire Thornton Stratford (1838–1902), master mariner, cartographer, and writer on navigation, was born in Downpatrick, Co. Down, fifth son of Holland Lecky of Castle Lecky, Magilligan, Co. Londonderry, and Ballyholland House, Co. Down, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of the…...
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…...
Lythe, Robert
Lythe, Robert (d. c. 1574), cartographer, was first recorded in 1556 when he was employed by the auditor of Calais, John Challoner (qv), to map the surrounding English Pale. Chaloner, a client of Sir William…...
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
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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…...
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…...
Mallet, Robert
Mallet, Robert (1810–81), engineer and seismologist, was born 3 June 1810 in Ryder's Row, Dublin, eldest child and only son among three children of John Mallet (1780–1868), plumber, hydraulic-engine maker, and iron founder, and his wife and first cousin Thomasina Mallet (d. 1861).…...
Mallin, (Ó Mealláin), Séamus
Mallin, (Ó Mealláin), Séamus (1903–82), republican, engineer and civil servant, was born James Laurence Mallin on 21 February 1903 in 24 Upper Wellington Street, Dublin, the eldest of five children (three sons and two daughters) of …...