Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Engineer. Herbert Day, a son of the Rt. Rev. Maurice Day, Bishop of Clogher, and his wife Charlotte, daughter of H.T. Ottley,(1) was born at Delgany, Co. Wicklow, on 27 May 1875.(2) He obtained the BAI degree from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1897.(3) During the First World War he was engineer for the aerodromes constructed at Aldergrove, Collinstown and Baldonnell. He was later engineer to the Grand Canal Company of Ireland. He died at Farnborough, Hampshire, at the age of eighty, in 1956.

ICEI: elected member, 5 Nov 1923,(4) but had ceased to be one by 1927.(5)

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References

All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from the obituary in IB 98, 7 Apr 1956, 322.

(1) Who was who 1929-1940, 343 (sub John Godfrey Fitzmaurice Day); H.T. Ottley was presumably Herbert Taylor Ottley of Ballyness, Coleraine, who was an associate of the ICEI in 1849.
(2) www.familysearch.org.
(3) R.C. Cox, compiler, Trinity College School of Engineering: 'Graduates' in Engineering 1843-1992 (1993), unpaginated.
(4) TICEI 50 (1923-1924), 1.
(5) TICEI 53 (1926-27), list of members.


3 work entries listed in chronological order for DAY, HERBERT TAYLOR OTTLEY


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, BALDONNEL, AERODROME
Date: 1916ca
Nature: HTOD engineer.
Refs: IB 98, 7 Apr 1956, 322

Building: CO. DUBLIN, COLLINSTOWN, AERODROME
Date: 1916ca
Nature: HTOD engineer.
Refs: IB 98, 7 Apr 1956, 322

Building: CO. ANTRIM, ALDERGROVE, AERODROME
Date: 1916ca
Nature: HTOD engineer.
Refs: IB 98, 7 Apr 1956, 322