CROSS, RICHARD ERNEST

Engineer with the Office of Public Works. Richard Cross was born in Cork circa 1901 and went to school at the North Monastery. He took engineering degrees at University College, Cork, in 1922 and 1923. He was appointed an engineer in the Office of Public Works in 1925, becoming assistant chief engineer in 1954 and chief engineer in 1960. He retired in 1966 on reaching the age limit of sixty-five,(1) when he was succeeded by HUGH ALEXANDER DELAP.  HUGH ALEXANDER DELAP.

ICEI: associate member, 3 May 1926;(2) member, 6 November 1933;(3) council member, 1959-1964; vice-president, 1964-5; president, 1965-6.(4)
Inst.CE: associate member by 1959.(5)

See BIBLIOGRAPHY. BIBLIOGRAPHY.

All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from the brief biography of Delap in Oibre 3 (February, 1966), 4, which is illustrated with a portrait photograph. Another portrait photograph forms the frontispiece to TICEI 92 (1965-66).

(1) TICEI 92 (1965-66), 2.
(2) TICEI 52 (1927), 163.
(3) TICEI 60 (1933-1934), 28.
(4) TICEI 86-91, lists of officers.
(5) TICEI 86 (1959-60), list of officers.