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DARLEY, FREDERICK [1]*
- Born: 1764 Died: 1841
Stonecutter and builder, of Lower Abbey Street, Dublin. Frederick Darley, a younger son of HENRY DARLEY [2] , was born in Dublin and baptised in St Thomas's Church on 6 July 1764. He was a pupil at Sisson Darling's school in Mabbott Street.(1) Although he is referred to in 1802 as being 'among the most eminent architects of the kingdom',(2) he would probably be more properly described as a builder and developer. The frequent references to him in BRYAN BOLGER' s papers indicate that he was involved in development in Mountjoy Square and elsewhere on the north side of the city.(3) He was employed by Trinity College, Dublin, as a stonecutter on a regular basis from 1816 until 1824 or later, initially with a George Darley (probably his uncle GEORGE DARLEY [1] who died in 1817).(4)
Frederick Darley was admitted a freeman of the City of Dublin at Christmas, 1795; unlike many of the other members of the family who were members of the Guild of Carpenters, he belonged to the Guild of Merchants.(5) He was active in the affairs of Dublin Corporation for many years; he became a sheriff in 1798,(6) master of the city works and alderman in 1800(7) and was Lord Mayor in 1808-9.(8) He was also chief magistrate of police from 1806 or earlier.(9)
Darley married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Arthur Guinness of Beaumont, Drumcondra, in 1785.(10) The couple had twenty children, FREDERICK DARLEY [2] being the second surviving son.(11) The latter was styled Frederick Darley, junior, until his father's death on 29 June 1841.(12)
Darley was a subscriber to Richard Elsam's Gentleman and Builder's Assistant (Derry, 1808) and to William Stitt's The Practical Architect's Ready Assistant; or Builder's Complete Companion (Dublin, 1819).
Addresses:(13) 88 Lower Abbey Street, 1786; 43 Bachelor's Walk, 1787-88; 88 Lower Abbey Street, 1789-1811; 60 William Street, 1814-1833; Mabbot Street, 1834;(14) Swanbrook, Donnybrook Road, 1835-1841.(15)
See WORKS.
References
Information in this entry not otherwise attributed is from the entry on Darley by C.J. Woods in DIB.
(1) Journal of the House of Lords, 25 Mar 1794 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44); R. Refaussé, ed. Register of the Parish of St Thomas, Dublin, 1750-1791 (1994), 30.
(2) Board of Works minutes Book 1, 2 July 1802 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44).
(3) See WORKS; Darley also refers to work in Mountjoy Sq in a letter to Bolger, 4 Dec 1799, in NLI MS 10,711. According to his fellow-tradesmen, writing in 1834, he 'built a great part [of] Mountjoy Square' (Royal Irish Academy, Haliday MS 4B 31; this manuscript is a copy of a report presented to Daniel O'Connell in 1834 to support the argument for repealing the Act of Union by describing the catastrophic impact the Act had had on the tradesmen of Dublin.)
(4) Trinity College muniments, MUN/P/2/204, 206, 217, 219, 221, 223, 231, 235, 238, 242, 244, 247, 250, 253, 255. There is a gap in the tradesmen's bills between 1824 and 1836.
(5) 'An alphabetical list of the Freemen of the City of Dublin, 1774-1824', The Irish Ancestor XV (1983), Nos. 1 & 2.
(6) CARD XV, 46.
(7) CARD XV, 129,140-41.
(8) CARD XVI, 94.
(9) On 16 Dec 1806 he was thanked by the Mayor and Alderman 'for his very active exertions in quelling the disgraceful riot' in the Theatre Royal two days previously (CARD XV, 514).
(10) Information from manuscript 'Pedigree charts of the Darley family in Ireland 1700-1926' in the possession of Mrs R.C Lewis-Crosby (1998).
(11) See note 9, above.
(12) CARD XIX, 439.
(13) Wilson's and Post Office Directories.
(14) Royal Irish Academy, Haliday MS 4B 31 (see note 3, above.)
(15) In the entry on his son Frederick William Darley in Walpole's County Families(1887) he is described as 'of Fernhill', Co. Dublin, but there is no evidence in the directories for this.
25 work entries listed in chronological order for DARLEY, FREDERICK [1]*
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Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (OLD) |
Date: | 1791-94 |
Nature: | FD and Thomas Baker contractors for stonework. |
Refs: | E. McParland, James Gandon (1981), 194n16 |
Building: | CO. WICKLOW, HOLLYWOOD HOUSE (GLENEALY) |
Date: | 1796 |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures sundry works by FD (connected with small alteration?) for Marquess of Waterford. (House burnt down, 31 May 1901.) |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/127 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE |
Date: | 1796 |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures stonework at Armory by FD. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MOUNTJOY SQUARE, HOUSE (JOSEPH GOFF, NO. 3?) |
Date: | 1797 |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures stone-cutting by FD at Joseph Goff's house. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/125 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MOUNTJOY SQUARE, HOUSE |
Date: | 1797 |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures carpentry done for (& by?) FD 'at his new built house'. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/124 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY, BOARD OF ORDNANCE STORES |
Date: | 179? |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures stonework by FD |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BERESFORD PLACE, WAREHOUSE (FOLLIOT MAGRATH) |
Date: | 1800 |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures carpentry work for FD at Magraths warehouse, 1800, and sundry works by FD behind house, n.d. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/126 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MOUNTJOY SQUARE, NO. 025-27 |
Date: | 1800 |
Nature: | 3 houses for Mrs Preston (Casey). Bryan Bolger measures sundry works by FD for Mrs Preston, 1800. |
Refs: |
Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/126; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 201-2. |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MOUNTJOY SQUARE, HOUSE (JEREMIAH D'OLIER) |
Date: | 1800 |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures sundry works by FD (all trades) for Jeremiah d'Olier. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/124 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BERESFORD PLACE, WAREHOUSE (JOHN MASON) |
Date: | 1800 |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures carpentry work done for FD at Mason's new warehouse and sundry work behind house. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/124,126 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, BOOTERSTOWN, BOOTERSTOWN AVENUE, SANS SOUCI |
Date: | 1802 |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures stonework (doorcases &c.) by FD for Wm. Digges La Touche (architect Richard Morrison). |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/125 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RAHENY, SYBIL HILL |
Date: | 1802 |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures sundry works for FD connected with alts. to house of James Barlow, Esq. |
Refs: |
Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/124; see also Claire Gogarty, From Village to Suburb: The Building of Clontarf since 1760 (2013), 27-28(illus.). |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HARDWICKE PLACE, ST GEORGE'S CHURCH (CI) |
Date: | 1802;1808-1809 |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures excavations and sundry works by FD by order of F. Johnston, 1802; also stonework for steeple, 1808. FD paid over £5,500 for stonecutter's work, 1808-1809 |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/124,126; Papers relating to St George's Church, Dublin…Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 29 April 1825, 7,19 (copy in IAA, RP.D.130.10) |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HENRIETTA STREET, KING'S INNS |
Date: | 1804 |
Nature: | FD employed as stonecutter. |
Refs: | E. McParland, James Gandon (1981), 199n59. |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HENRY STREET, BERESFORD'S BANK |
Date: | 1808 |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures sundry works by FD for John Claudius Beresford. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/124 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PRICE'S LANE, STORES (EDWARD & SAMUEL STEPHENS) |
Date: | 1808 |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures sundry works by FD for Ed. & Sam. Stephens. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/127 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CASTLE STREET, DUBLIN CASTLE |
Date: | 1810 |
Nature: | FD's stonework measured by Stitt. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET SOUTH, NO. 059 (POWERSCOURT HOUSE) |
Date: | 1810 |
Nature: | Stonework for conversion of Powerscourt House into Stamp Office to designs by Francis Johnston. Measured by Stitt, 1810. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WILLIAM STREET SOUTH, CITY ASSEMBLY HOUSE |
Date: | 1810 |
Nature: | FD submits bill of £23.5s.9d. for stonecutting work executed in process of converting former Exhibition House into City Assembly House. |
Refs: | CARD XVI, 191 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, GENERAL POST OFFICE |
Date: | 1814 |
Nature: | FD tenders for cut stone work of portico. |
Refs: | Specification, signed by Francis Johnston, & list of tenders for stone and brickwork, 1814, &c. in An Post archives (photocopy in IAA, RP.L.72 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHOENIX PARK, VICE-REGAL LODGE |
Date: | 1816 |
Nature: | Bolger notes work by Darley & Baker on 'Portico in the Park' for Board of Works. £2100. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/128 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MOUNTJOY SQUARE, HOUSE (- JOHNSTON) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures slating, plastering & stonework by FD for - Johnston's house. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/125 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GREEN STREET, COURT HOUSE |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Stonework by FD. |
Refs: | NLI MS 16,233 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, HOUSE (NO. 16?, ARCHDEACON? FOWLER) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures sundry works by FD (all trades), for Archdeacon[sic, ?Archbishop] Fowler. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/125 |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, STRAND STREET, WAREHOUSE (FRANCIS KIRKPATRICK) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Bryan Bolger measures sundry works by FD for Francis Kirkpatrick. |
Refs: | Bryan Bolger MSS, NA/PRO 1A/58/125 |