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Waxworks cork1/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() secretary, 1842-1849 (21) fellow before 1866 struck off for non-payment of dues 1866. HOUGHTON, JOSEPH GEORGE O'BRIEN JOSEPH GEORGE O'BRIEN and ARTHUR CREAGH TAYLOR. (20) Besides McCurdy, Darley's pupils and assistants included JOHN W. (19) Darley had married Penelope Andrews (1790-1886) daughter of Alderman Thomas Andrews, of Dublin, in 1824, but no children of the marriage are recorded. (18) Holbrook continued to practise from 187 Brunswick Street after Darley's death, which took place in 1872. (15) Darley appears to have been in partnership with a member of the Cranfield family as DARLEY & DARLEY & amp CRANFIELD CRANFIELD in the 1830s, (16) with NATHANIEL MONTGOMERY NATHANIEL MONTGOMERY as DARLEY & DARLEY & amp MONTGOMERY MONTGOMERY, 1845-1849, (17) and with THOMAS HOLBROOK THOMAS HOLBROOK, as DARLEY & DARLEY & amp HOLBROOK HOLBROOK in 1871-1872. (14) Soon afterwards he was appointed an Ecclesiastical Commissioner. (12) In 1860 he was one of four architects appointed to inspect and report on the restoration of St Patrick's Cathedral (13) and in 1863 he was appointed member of a commission to value the dilapidations at the Archbishop's Palace, Armagh. (10) In addition, Darley was patron of Aged and Infirm Carpenters Asylum from 1842 or earlier until 1872 (11) and advisory architect to the Dublin Exhibition Palace & Winter Gardens Company, 1863-1870. (8) He was architect to the Board of National Education from 1848 until the architects' department of the Board of Education was absorbed by the Board of Works, a process which was initiated in 1856 (9) as such he was responsible for the design of a series of model schools and model agricultural schools which were built throughout the country. (5) He is described as architect to the Royal Dublin Society in 1846 (6) and was a member of the Society's Fine Arts Committee between 18 (7) and its Committee of Fine Arts & Manufactures in 1869. (3) During the 1830s - from 1836 or earlier - he was also architect to Trinity College, Dublin, a position which he held until at least 1850 (4) and in which he was succeeded by his pupil JOHN MCCURDY. (2) From 1833 until 1843 he was the Ecclesiastical Commissioners' architect for the Archdiocese of Dublin. An application to succeed FRANCIS JOHNSTON FRANCIS JOHNSTON as architect to the Board of Works which was made by his father on his behalf in 1825 states that he had been Johnston's pupil. Frederick Darley was born in 1798, the second surviving son of FREDERICK DARLEY FREDERICK DARLEY (1) he was styled Frederick Darley, junior, until his father's death in 1841. ![]()
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