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John McCurdy (1824 – 12 September 1855) was an Irish architect. He received his professional training in the office of Frederick Darley, architect to Trinity College, Dublin. He succeeded Benjamin Holebrook as clerk of works at Trinity College in 1850. Shortly afterwards he became the official college architect, a post which he retained until his death.〔C.H. Holland (editor): ''Trinity College Dublin and the idea of a university''. Dublin, 1991, pp. 153-184.〕 In 1872 he formed an architectural partnership with William Mansfield Mitchell, which was dissolved in 1882.〔''Irish Builder'', 8 September 1956〕 He was a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and was president for the last ten years of his life of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. He was a member of the Grand Lodge of Ireland (Freemasons) and designed the Masonic Female Orphan School of Ireland (now Bewley's Hotel) which opened in 1882. ==Bibliography== * M. Daly, M. Hearn & P. Pearson, ''Dublin's Victorian Houses'' (1998), pp. 160–161. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John McCurdy (architect)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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