Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Carpenter and builder, of Dublin. Arthur Darley, a younger son of ARTHUR DARLEY [1] ARTHUR DARLEY [1] , was born in 1740. He married Elizabeth Mason in 1766 and had several children, the eldest of whom was ROBERT DARLEY. ROBERT DARLEY. (1) The young couple was living in Marlborough Street in 1769 when their second son Henry was baptised in St Thomas's Church, Dublin, and in Mecklenburg Street in 1771 when their second daughter Elizabeth was also baptised in the same church.(2) Arthur Darley, carpenter, leased a house in Dorset Street to Margaret Reed on 20 June 1782.(3) He appears in Wilson's Dublin Directory from 1783 to 1786 at 42 Dorset Street and from 1787 to 1794 at 53 Dorset Street. Bryan Bolger records measuring works of various kinds by Arthur Darley between 1790 and 1793, including houses built as speculative developments in Temple Street and Gardiner Street in 1791.(4) Some of the drawings in a collection of late-eighteenth century designs for chimneypieces by GEORGE DARLEY GEORGE DARLEY , HILL DARLEY  HILL DARLEY and JOHN KEANE  JOHN KEANE in the Royal Irish Academy are endorsed 'Arthur Darley, 46 Dorset Street'.(5) He died in 1818.(6)

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(1) Information from manuscript 'Pedigree charts of the Darley family in Ireland 1700-1926' in the possession of Mrs R.C Lewis-Crosby (1998).
(2) R. Refaussé, ed. Register of the Parish of St Thomas, Dublin, 1750-1791 (1994), 44,51.
(3) E. Ellis and P.B. Eustace, eds., Registry of Deeds, Dublin: Abstracts of Wills: Vol. III 1785-1832 (1984), 8.
(4) Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/124,125,126,127.
(5) Irish Architectural Drawings (1965), 18 (no. 108).
(6) See note 1, above.


6 work entries listed in chronological order for DARLEY, ARTHUR [2]*


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GARDINER'S PLACE, COACH HOUSES (002)
Date: 1790-91
Nature: Built by Darley for Daniel Crosby
Refs: Bolger MSS, 1A 58 126

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, TEMPLE STREET, NEW BUILDINGS
Date: 1790-91
Nature: Development by Arthur Darley
Refs: Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A 58 124,126

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GARDINER STREET, HOUSES (004)
Date: 1791
Nature: Development by Arthur Darley
Refs: Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A 58 126

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, RUTLAND FOUNTAIN
Date: 1792
Nature: Stone-cutter's work by Arthur Darley.
Refs: Bryan Bolger MSS, 1A 58 127

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, TEMPLE STREET, NEW BUILDINGS
Date: 1792
Nature: Stonework for William Norton Barry.
Refs: Bryan Bolger MSS., NA/PRO 1A/58/124

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GARDINER STREET, NEW BUILDINGS
Date: 1793
Nature: Sundry works (all trades) by AD for Richard Goodin's new buildings measured by Bryan Bolger.
Refs: Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/125