Sir George Moyers (11 May 1836 – 4 November 1916) was an

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architect, engineer and politician. Moyers was the son of William Moyers. He was educated at Bellevue House, Bristol and

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, graduating in 1856. He did a five-year architectural apprenticeship with his brother-in-law, Edward Henry Carson (father of

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), and worked in

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for the engineers George Legg and William Dempsey. By 1863, he had taken over his father's building contractor business in South Richmond Street,

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. In 1891 he opened a new architecture and civil engineering business with his son, Lambert Moyers, in Foster Place. From 1875 he was a

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for Dublin and was later made a Deputy Lieutenant for the city. He was elected an alderman for the

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in 1880 and was elected

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as a

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in 1881. He was

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in the

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