John Frederick Fogerty

Who was John Frederick Fogerty?

John Frederick Fogerty, ARIBA, was an Irish architect and engineer active in mid-to-late-nineteenth-century Limerick, London, Shropshire, Bournemouth, Pretoria, and Zambia. Born in Limerick, the son of architect William Fogerty, grandson of architect and engineer John Fogerty, and nephew of engineer and novelist Joseph Fogerty. He earned a bachelors in engineering from Queen's College, Cork in 1883, and attended the South Kensington Art School the year later. He was articled to Sir Thomas Drew. In 1889, he established his office at Wellington, Shropshire and entered into partnership with Reginald George Pinder in Bournemouth in 1893, later amalgamating Pearce & Parnell of Bournemouth in 1902. He emigrated to South Africa in 1914 and enlisted at the outbreak of the First World War, serving time in South Africa, the Isle of Wight, Palestine and Poona, India. During the Interwar period, he worked as an engineer in Pretoria's Public Works Department, before becoming borough surveyor in Lusaka, Zambia in 1926, where he died in 1938.