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HENRY, GEORGE AUSTYN
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Architect, of Portadown and Armagh. According to the Irish census of 1911, George Austyn Henry was born in Belfast in 1908 or 1909, the son of George Adams Henry, master grocer,and his wife Isabella. He was active as an architect from the 1930s to the 1950s. During the Second World War he held the rank of major. By 1950 he appears to have been working in London; if so, he was back in Belfast in the mid-1950s.
RIBA: elected associate, 1934; elected fellow, February 1943.(1)
RSUA: associate by 1937; member by 1950.
Addresses: Glen Lodge, Belmont, Belfast, 1937; 48A High Street, Portadown, 1937;(2); 16 Russell Street, Armagh, 1938;(3) The Mall Armagh, 1940;(4) 5 St Mark's Place, The Mall, Armagh, 1943;(6) c/o Gallaher, Ltd, Granite House, 97/101 Cannon Street, London, EC4, 1950-1952;(7) 25 Gresham Street, Belfast, 1954-1956.
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References
All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from RSUA lists of members in Thom's directories, 1937-1956.
(1) RIBAJ 50 (1942-43), 71; IB 85, 27 Feb 1943, 76.
(2) IB 79, 26 Jun 1937, 489.
(3) IB 80, 9 Jul 1938, 581.
(4) IB 82, 6 Jul 1940, 446.
(5) RIBAJ 50 (1942-43), 71.
(7) This is again given as his address in the RIBA Kalendar for 1964-65 and 1965-66.
7 work entries listed in chronological order for HENRY, GEORGE AUSTYN
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Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM |
Date: | 1914 |
Nature: | Administration block. |
Refs: |
Plans, 1914, in PRONI, LA/2/8/JA/22 (see PRONI e-catalogue). |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, PORTADOWN, TECHNICAL SCHOOL |
Date: | 1937 |
Nature: | Addition. £5,500. |
Refs: | IB 79, 6 Feb,3 Apr,26 Jun 1937, 129,314,589 |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, BESSBROOK, TECHNICAL SCHOOL |
Date: | 1937-38 |
Nature: | New. |
Refs: | IB 79, 27 Nov 1937, 1057; Bessbrook (1945), 47 ff. |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, ARMAGH, DISTRICT LUNATIC ASYLUM |
Date: | 1937-38 |
Nature: | Renovation and modernizing. £30,000. |
Refs: |
IB 79, 23 Jan,20 Mar,1 May,30 Oct 1937, 82,262,402,962; 80, 9 Jul 1938, 581; Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 433. |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN, BROWNLOW TERRACE, MINOR MODEL NATIONAL SCHOOLS |
Date: | 1938 |
Nature: | Extension. £6,761. |
Refs: | IB 80, 16 Apr 1938, 322 |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, CABRA (TANDRAGEE), PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL |
Date: | 1940 |
Nature: | Improvement and general reconstruction, for Armagh Education Committee. |
Refs: | IB 82, 17 Aug 1940, 522 |
Building: | CO. ARMAGH, LURGAN DISTRICT, PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS |
Date: | 1940 |
Nature: | Repairs. |
Refs: | IB 82, 6 Jul 1940, 446 |