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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon FOGERTY, John Frederick Born: 1863 Died: 1938 Architect Was probably born in Ireland. He was educated at Queen's College in Cork from where he matriculated in 1880. In 1883 he received a BA degree in English from the Royal University, Ireland. The following year he was articled to Thomas Drew, RHA, in Dublin (1884). By 1887 Fogerty became assistant general manager to the Lillenhall Co Ltd Mining & Mechanical, Shropshire in England. He began practice as an architect at Wrockwardine Wood, Shropshire, joining RG Pinder, FRIBA, in partnership in Bournemouth in 1893. In 1894 he sat the RIBA examination in London and was elected an Associate member of the RIBA the same year. While in Bournemouth he designed East Cliff Hall (1907) and the Russell Coates Art Gallery and Museum in Bournemouth. In 1914 he came to South Africa for his wife's health but it does not seems that he worked as an architect at all in South Africa. At the outbreak of the First World War he enlisted and fought under Smuts and Botha in South West Africa and had the dubious honour of being the first officer to be wounded in the operation. Fogerty was then sent to train recruits on the Isle of Wight, England and became assistant (?) to Lord Allenby in 1917 in Palestine. He was invalided out, wounded again, and sent on military duty to Poona, India. He later returned to South Africa and carried out engineering duties in the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT in Pretoria until 1926 when he was posted to Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) as Borough Surveyor. He died at Kilfinane in Lusaka. ARIBA 1894. (ARIBA nom papers (1894) 1038; RIBA biog file; RIBA Jnl 8 May 1939: 690 obit) All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.