Frederick Darley was an Irish architect who designed and built a number of buildings in

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, including in Trinity College Dublin. He was also responsible for a number of civic and church buildings across Ireland. He was a son of the builder and architect Frederick Darley Senior, and his father served as Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1808–1809. His mother was Elizabeth (Guinness) Darley, eldest daughter of

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of Beaumont, Drumcondra. In 1833–1843, Darley was the Ecclesiastical Commissioners architect for the

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Diocese of Dublin. Frederick Darley junior was a pupil of Francis Johnston. Darley himself was succeeded by his pupil John McCurdy as architect to Trinity College Dublin. Darley was a founding member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) and lived on Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin.

Buildings designed by Darley

* New Square, Trinity College Dublin. * Carpenter's Asylum, 35

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(formerly Gloucester Street) (1832) *

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Library,

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* Trinity Church, Dublin, which became ''The Exchange'', on Gardiner Street. *

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, former

church on Dorset Street (1840 rebuild) (demolished). *

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(demolished 1866)

References

1798 births 1872 deaths Architects from Dublin (city) 19th-century Irish architects {{Ireland-architect-stub