Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of Dublin. Frederick Hicks was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on 16 May 1870. According to the English census of 1871, he was the fourth son of Joseph Hicks, linen draper of Banbury and his wife Mary. He was educated at Taunton School and received his architectural training at the London Architectural Association School and at Finsbury Technical College. In 1886 he became an articled pupil of John William Stevens of London. On completing his articles in 1890, at the age of twenty, he came to Dublin to take up a trial appointment in the office of JAMES RAWSON CARROLL JAMES RAWSON CARROLL , where FREDERICK BATCHELOR  FREDERICK BATCHELOR was then the chief assistant. He remained with Carroll for two and a half years. After a year in the office of WILLIAM HENRY BYRNE  WILLIAM HENRY BYRNE and three and a half years as chief assistant to THOMAS DREW THOMAS DREW , he set up in practice on his own in Dublin in 1895. He appears to have formed some sort of informal professional association with FREDERICK AUGUSTUS BUTLER FREDERICK AUGUSTUS BUTLER . He was working from the same premises as Butler at 5 St Stephen's Green in February 1898 and at 28 South Frederick Street and 35a Kildare Street from 1900 until Butler's death in 1903.(1)

In 1905 Hicks entered into partnership with Frederick Batchelor at 86 Merrion Square.(2) The seventeen-year partnership of BATCHELOR & BATCHELOR & amp; HICKS, which, as Hicks recalled, was temporarily clouded by only one serious disagreement,(3) lasted until 1922, when Batchelor retired.(4) Hicks continued to work from the same premises until his own retirement in 1945, when he sold the practice to his assistant ALAN HOPE. ALAN HOPE. (5) In 1929 he was elected president of the RIAI, holding the office until the end of 1931. As president he invited the RIBA to hold its annual conference in Dublin for the first time in the summer of 1931.(6)   During the 1920s or for longer, he was architect to the Association for the Housing of the Very Poor(7) and to the St Barnabas Public Utitllity Society.(8)

Hicks was an attractive draughtsman.  Between 1926 and 1963 he exhibited frequently at the Water Colour Society of Ireland's exhibitions,and in 1936 and between 1952 and 1960 he also exhibited at the RHA.  Several of his sketches were published in the Irish Builder and elsewhere,(9)  Four sketchbooks are in the Manuscript Department of Trinity College Library.(10) He had a good bass voice and at the AAI's 'smoking concerts' was often called upon to perform 'the Association's favourite old ditties - "Troll, troll, bonny brown bowl", "Merrion Square" and "Fuzzy wuzzy"'.(11) He was a member of the Strollers, a long-established men's amateur singing club.

Hicks died at at home at The Tower, Malahide, on 24 April 1965 shortly before his ninety-fifth birthday and was buried beside his wife and a daughter in a grave marked by a tombstone of his own design in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church of Ireland church, Malahide. His wife, Edith (nee Sykes), whom he had married in 1905 and who died in 1926(12) The couple had two daughters, Violet(13) and Patricia, and one son, George Herbert Bawtree Hicks, who became chief engineer in the brewery of Walker,Tetley at Warrington, Lancashire. His pupils and assistants included LORENZO BAKER  LORENZO BAKER and FINIAN H. TALLON. FINIAN H. TALLON.

The Irish Architectural Archive holds a number of drawings by Hicks in the Alan Hope Collection (Acc. 86/127).

AAI:(14) founder member of revived association, 1896; hon. treasurer, 1896-1899; hon. secretary, 1899-1902; president, 1902-1903; lectures on various topics.(15)
RIAI: elected member, 1898;(16) hon. treasurer, 1907-1909; council member, 1910-12, 1916-20, 1922-28; hon. secretary, 1913-15; vice-president, 1921; president 1929-1931;(17) jury member for award of Kerner Greenwood studentship, 1929,1931;(18) awarded first Triennial Gold Medal for for St Thomas's Church, Dublin, 1932.(19)
RIBA: elected fellow, 29 May 1906, proposed by Thomas Drew, WILLIAM MANSFIELD MITCHELL  WILLIAM MANSFIELD MITCHELL and Frederick Batchelor.(20)
RHA:(21) elected associate member, 1930;  member, 1944; hon treasurer, 1950-54.

Addresses:(22) Work: 5 St Stephen's Green, 1898; (23)  28 Frederick Street South, <=1900-1901; 35A Kildare Street, 1901(24)-1904; 86 Merrion Square South, 1905-1945.
Home: Warren Cottage, Sutton, 1898; Ceanchor Cottage, Howth, <=1905->=1907; 17 Wellington Place, Clyde Road, Dublin, 1908;(25)  The Tower, Malahide, Co. Dublin, 1910 until death.

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References

All information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from the biographies of Hicks in JRIAI (1933), 18-19, and IB 107, 27 Feb 1965, 151-2, from the obituary in RIAI Year Book (1956), 52 and from Directory of British Architects 1834-1914 (RIBA 2001), I, 902. Hicks is also the subject of an article in the 'Our Interviews' series in IB 44, 6 Nov 1902, 1461.  Details of Hicks's early career are in IAA, RIAI office archives (Acc. 93/136), membership forms 1878-1909 (extremely fragile).  Photographs of Hicks appear in IB 44, 6 Nov 1902, 1461; 69, 15 Oct 1927, 759. 71, 19 Jan 1929, 45; 73, 20 Jun 1931, 537; 74, 2 Jan,27 Feb,17 Dec 1932, 16,200,1121; 107, 27 Feb 1965m 151,152;  Irish Times, 22 Dec 1928;  JRIAI (1929), frontispiece; Architect & Building News126, 12,26 Jun 1931, 349,458; AJ 73, 17 Jun 1931, 843; Irish Times, 17 May 1960. A half-length portrait of Hicks belonging to The Friendly Brothers of St Patrick is in No. 17 St Stephen's Green.  Scanned copies of photographs of Hicks, his wife and The Tower in the possession of Hicks's eldest grandson, Simon macLachlan, Sissinghurst, Kent, are in Jones file H100.   


(1) According to IB 107, 27 Feb 1965, 151, he established an office 38 St Stephen's Green in 1898, but these premises were occupied by a bakery from 1896 or earlier until at least 1900.
(2) IB 47, 20 May 1905, 337.
(3) JRIAI (1932), 34.
(4) IB 64, 17 Jun 1922, 410.
(5) Memorandum of agreement, 12 November 1945, in IAA, Hope Collection, Acc. 86/127.
(6) JRIAI (1932), 23; RIBAJ 38 (1930-31), 619.
(7) Irish Times, 1 May 1925.
(8) Irish Times, 12 Jun 1925.  
(9) See IB 42, 1 Sep 1900, 478; 52, 5 Mar 1910, 146, and IB 93, 3 Mar,12 May 1951, 226,494; see also RIAI Year Book (1949), 1.
(10)   Photographs and negatives in IAA, Acc. 99/96.
(11) IB 88, 30 Nov 1946, 786; see also IB 41, 15 Nov 1899, 188 and IB 48, 17 Nov 1906, 934. 
(12) In the account of the wedding in the Irish Times, 4 Nov 1905, she is described as the daughter of F. Sykes of 28 Upper Merrion Street, Dublin, while E. Macdowel Cosgrave, ed., Dublin and County Dublin in the Twentieth Century (1908), 267, states that she was the youngest daughter of Daniel Sykes, of  Annerley, Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
(13)   Married Geoffrey MacLachlan at Westminster Cathedral, 23 Nov 1031 (Irish Times, 24 Nov 1931, and Weekly Irish Times, 28 Nov 1931).
(14)  Lists of past office holders in AAI Green Books.
(15) Hicks's lecture fixtures listed in AAI Green Books include: 'Rememinscences of York', 9 Feb 1904, 'A few days in Venice and Verona', 28 Feb 1905, 'Decorative treatment of Brickwork', 23 Feb 1909, 'Reminiscences', 12 Nov 1946 (for account of latter, see IB 88, 30 Nov 1946, 786).
(16) RIAI council meeting minutes, 7 Feb 1898, 354.
(17) From RIAI lists of office bearers.
(18) JRIAI (1930), 14; B 72, 22 Nov 1930; 73, 14 Feb 1931, 125.
(19) IB 74, 17 Dec 1932, 1117; JRIAI (1933), 11.
(20) RIBAJ 13 (1906), 414.
(21) Letter from Fernando Sanchez, Academy Co-ordinator, Royal Hibernian Academy, to Simon macLachlan, 25 Oct 2012.
(22) From RIAI lists of members and Thom's Directories unless otherwise stated.
(23) RIAI council meeting minutes, 7 Feb 1898, 354.
(24) Irish Times, 29,30 Nov 1901..
(25) E. Macdowel Cosgrave, ed., Dublin and County Dublin in the Twentieth Century (1908), 267.


83 work entries listed in chronological order for HICKS, FREDERICK GEORGE


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BURROW ROAD (SUTTON), ESKERAGH
Date: 1898
Nature: House for the artist Mary Kate Benson. Contractors: Sharpe & Emery.
Refs: Datestone on house; design exh. RHA 1902 (no. 364); IB 42, 1 Oct 1900, 490,492(illus.)

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GULISTAN COTTAGES (RATHMINES), HOUSES
Date: 1898-00
Nature: Artisans' dwellings for Rathmines & Rathgar UDC. Contractor for caretaker's lodge, John Pemberton, Dublin.
Refs: Signed contract design for caretaker's lodge, also signed by John Pemberton, contractor, 1 Feb 1899,   in Dublin City Archives, UDC/1/6/36 (repr. Dublin City Council, http://www.dublincity.ie/story/caretaker%E2%80%99s-lodge-gulistan-rathmines-dublin, last visited, Jan 2017);   IB 42, 15 Mar 1900, 309

Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, HOUSES (011)
Date: 1900
Nature: 11 labourers' cottages.
Refs: IB 42, 1 Sep,1 Oct 1900, 469,497

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, TALBOT STREET, NO. 086 (BELFAST BANK)
Date: 1900
Nature: Facing of Doulting limestone. Completed Aug 1900. Contractor: McLaughlin & Harvey.
Refs: Design exh. RHA 1902 (no. 363); IB 42, 1 Sep 1900, 465,467; 44, 14 Aug 1902, 1358,1366(illus. )

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES, HOUSING
Date: 1900-1903
Nature: FGH winner of competition for artisans' dwellings. £30,000.  Tenders invited, Nov 1901. Scheme inaugurated November 1903.
Refs: IB 42, 15 Jun 1900, 387; 43, 30 Jan,13 Feb 1901, 607,637; 44, 30 Jan 1902, 1020; 45, 19 Nov 1903, 3000;  Irish Times, 7,14 Nov 1901.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, OXFORD ROAD, PLUNKETT'S AREA, HOUSING
Date: 1901
Nature: FGH wins competition to design artisans' dwellings.
Refs: IB 42, 15 Jun 1900, 387; 43, 30 Jan 1901, 607; 44, 30 Jan 1902, 1020

Building: CO. LAOIS, MOUNTMELLICK, UNION WORKHOUSE
Date: 1902
Nature: FJH reports on sanitary arrangements.
Refs: IB 44, 16 Jan 1902, 1012

Building: CO. DUBLIN, FOXROCK, BRIGHTON ROAD, COOLDRINAGH
Date: 1902
Nature: House for W.F. Beckett.
Refs: Design exh. RHA 1902 (no. 362); IB 44, 26 Feb 1903, 1614(illus.)

Building: CO. OFFALY, TULLAMORE, MALT STORES
Date: 1902-1903
Nature: New.
Refs: IB 44, 18 Dec 1902, 1524; 45, 1 Jan 1903, 1540; 47, 28 Jan 1905, 45; E. Macdowel Cosgrave, ed., Dublin and County Dublin in the Twentieth Century (1908), 267

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FRANCIS STREET, NO. 021-27 (IVEAGH MARKETS)
Date: 1902-1906
Nature: FGH winner of competition. Estimated cost about £45,000. Contractor: McLaughlin & Harvey. Actual cost about £60,000.
Refs: IB 44, 28 Aug 1902, 1371; 45, 29 Jan 1903, 1563; 48, 11 Aug 1906, 634; Irish Times, 26 Jul 1906; Belfast News Letter, 28 Jul 1906; Who's Who in Architecture 1923, 123

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MOUNTPLEASANT (RANELAGH), HOUSING SCHEME, MOUNTPLEASANT BUILDINGS
Date: 1903
Nature:  Designed by FGH (for Rathmines Township?).
Refs: Irish Times, 20 Aug 1931. 

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES, PUBLIC LAVATORY
Date: 1903
Nature: Tenders invited for erecting same.for Rathmines Urban Council.
Refs: Irish Times, 9 Mar 1903.

Building: UNITED STATES, ST LOUIS (MISSOURI), LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXHIBITION
Date: 1904
Nature: Irish section designed by FGH.
Refs: IB 46, 30 Jan,27 Feb 1904, 37,108(illus.),114(illus.)

Building: CO. DUBLIN, WOODBROOK (SHANKILL)
Date: 1905
Nature: Extensive adds., including new reception rooms, guest wing, & new glasshouses, for Stanley Cochrane.
Refs: IB 47, 25 Feb 1905, 134

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, NEWMARKET, MALT STORES
Date: 1905
Nature: To be begun soon.
Refs: IB 47, 28 Jan 1905, 45; E. Macdowel Cosgrave, ed., Dublin and County Dublin in the Twentieth Century (1908), 267

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, AILESBURY ROAD, ST MICHAEL'S
Date: 1905
Nature: Adds., for Sir Ernest Cochrane. (According to parish history Cochrane's alts. included billiard room, oak panelling in hall and dining room, decoration of ballroom and reception room ceilings, installation of Bossi fireplaces.)
Refs: IB 47, 27 Feb 1905, 134; Fr. Cyril Crean, ed., Parish of the Sacred Heart Donnybrook (1965), 115

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD LOWER (& LEINSTER ROAD), CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY & TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
Date: 1905-1913
Nature: New library. FGH winner of limited competition, 1905. (Partnership of Batchelor & Hicks (1905-1922), responsible for erection of building between 1910 and 1913.)
Refs: IB 47, 25 Feb,21 Oct 1905, 117,746; Brendan Grimes, Irish Carnegie Libraries: a catalogue and architectural history (1998), 224-227(illus.)

Building: CO. LOUTH, DUNDALK, DUNDALK BREWERY
Date: 1906
Nature: New malt house.
Refs: IB 48, 10 Mar 1906, 198; E. Macdowel Cosgrave, ed., Dublin and County Dublin in the Twentieth Century (1908), 267

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MOUNTPLEASANT (RANELAGH), HOUSING SCHEME
Date: 1907
Nature: Is this the same as Gulistan Cottages?
Refs: IB 49, 6 Apr 1907, 237

Building: CO. DUBLIN, MALAHIDE, THE TOWER
Date: 1910ca
Nature: Conversion of martello tower into house for himself.
Refs: IA & C 1, 11 Mar 1911, 93; Capuchin Annual 15 (1944), 136; Dublin Historical Record 10, no. 3 (Sep-Nov 1948), 68

Building: CO. DUBLIN, MALAHIDE, HOUSE
Date: 1911
Nature: New bungalow.
Refs: IA & C 1, 11 Mar 1911, 100

Building: WALES, HOLYHEAD, TREARDDUR BAY, CRAIG-Y-MOR
Date: 1911-1922
Nature: L-plan Neo-Georgian house overlooking sea, for William Smellie.
Refs: Who's Who in Architecture 1923, 123;  Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach & Adam Voelcker, Gwynedd (Buildings of Wales, 2009),223;  http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-20078-craig-y-mor-trearddur

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, LORD EDWARD STREET, NO. 021-25 (MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS) (PROPOSED)
Date: 1913
Nature: Placed second in competition.
Refs: IB 55, 12 Apr 1913, 258(illus.); Building News 104, 11 Apr 1913, 499

Building: ENGLAND, LONDON, WHITEHALL, PUBLIC OFFICES
Date: 1915
Nature: FGH exhibits design at RHA. ?Competition entry.
Refs: RHA 1915 (no. 474)

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARINO, HOUSING SCHEME
Date: 1919-25
Nature: Erection of 428 houses, for Dublin Corporation. With H.T. O'Rourke.. Clerk of Works: Robert Payne.  Tenders invited for erecting 'further sectiion' of scheme 'in accordance with the Plans, Specifications and Conditions of Contract prepared by Mr. Frederick G. Hicks', May 1924..
Refs: Perspective view by H.T. O'Rourke dated Jun 1919 repr. in David O'Connor, 'Housing in Dublin 1887-1987', Irish Architect 67 (Jun-Aug 1988), 30; IB 65, 27 Jan,2,30 Jun 1923, 53,426,498; 66, 17 May 1924, 446; 67, 30 May,11 Jul,17 Oct 1925, 440,557,852;  Irish Times, 3 May 1924,27 Jun 1925..

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PHIBSBOROUGH ROAD, CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS (CI, GRANGEGORMAN PARISH)
Date: 1920ca
Nature: World War I memorial: woodwork by 'Hicks' (?FGH)
Refs: Ernest H.F. Campbell, 100 Years of Life at Grangegorman, 1928.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ALEXANDRA ROAD, DUBLIN PORT MILLING CO.
Date: 1921
Nature: New reinforced concrete flour mill next to Merchants' Warehousing co. grain silo. With C.H. Ashworth, for Dublin Port Milling Co. Contractor: J. & W. Stewart. Foreman: Mr White.
Refs: Irish Times, 24 Apr 1924(illus.);  advertisement for J. & W. Stewart in JRIAI (1928);  Paul Larmour, Free State Architecture:  Modern Movement architecture in Ireland, 1922-1949, 9-10(illus.).

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD LOWER (& LEINSTER ROAD), CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY & TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
Date: 1923
Nature: Tenders invited for bookshelves & other fittings for proposed children's library.
Refs: IB 65, 13 Jan 1923, 28.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, NO. 139
Date: 1923
Nature: Structural alts., for George Brown.
Refs: IB 65, 8 Sep 1923, 692

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RICHMOND STREET SOUTH, NO. 061 (PROVINCIAL BANK)
Date: 1923
Nature: New bank premises on corner of Richmond Street South and Harrington Street.  Single storey over basement.  Exterior of Portland stone.  Contractor: G. & T. Crampton, Hammersmith Works.
Refs: IB 65, 21 Apr 1923, 301;  Irish Times, 14 Aug 1924.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, RATHMINES ROAD LOWER (& LEINSTER ROAD), CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY & TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
Date: 1923-1930
Nature: Alts., including annexe to Technical Institute. Tenders for erecting latter invited, Jul 1924.
Refs: IAA, PKS 0409, 0111, A09 ((Mar 1927); IB 65, 13 Jan 1923, 28; 70, 23 Jun 1928, 552; 72, 24 May 1930, 479;  Irish Times, 25 Jul 1924, 19 hYN 1928;  B 127, 8 Aug 1924, ?; Architect & Building News 117, 8 Apr 1927, 630;

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARROWBONE LANE, NO. 043-45 (WILLS TOBACCO FACTORY)
Date: 1923;1927
Nature: Conversion of Jameson's Distillery into tobacco factory for Mssrs. Wills. Plans approved by City Architect, Jul or Aug 1923. Contractor: S. Bolton, Rathmines Rd?. New offices, 1927.
Refs: IB 65, 16 Jun,14 Jul 1923, 466, 544; 69, 2 Apr 1927, 238;  Irish Times, 9 Aug 1923.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MARROWBONE LANE, POWER HOUSE
Date: 1924
Nature: New.
Refs: IB 66, 13 Dec 1924, 1057

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, BOW STREET, DISTILLERY (JOHN JAMESON & SON)
Date: 1924
Nature: Alts.
Refs: IB 66, 4 Oct 1924, 865

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, NO. 036-37 (ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY OF MUSIC)
Date: 1924
Nature: Proposed new concert hall.
Refs: Irish Times, 27 Sep 1924;  IB 66, 4 Oct 1924, 865

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CRESCENT GARDENS, HOUSES
Date: 1924-1925
Nature: Scheme of 62 houses for 'better class workmen' off West Road comprising Seaview Ave and Crescent Gdns. For St Barnabas Public Utility Society.
Refs: Ruth McManus, 'The ""Building Parson"" - the role of Reverend David Hall in the solution of Ireland's early twentieth-century housing problems', Irish Geography 32, Pt. II (1999), 95

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, JOHN STREET SOUTH, HOUSES (024)
Date: 1924-1925
Nature: FGH preparing plans for 26(?) 3-room cottages, Sep 1924, for Association for the Housing of the Very Poor.  Contract for erecting 12 3-rrom and 12 4-room cottages for £10,900, signed by May 1925;  scheme involves widening of street.  Subsidies for for houses from Government and Dublin Corporation amounting to £3,360. Plans approved by City Architect, May 1925.
Refs: IB 66, 6 Sep 1924, 778;  Irish Times, 1,2 Oct 1924, 1 May,4 Jun 1925.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SEAVIEW AVENUE (BALDOYLE), HOUSES
Date: 1924-1925
Nature: Scheme of 62 houses for 'better class workmen' off West Road comprising Seaview Ave and Crescent Gdns. For St Barnabas Public Utility Society.
Refs: Ruth McManus, 'The ""Building Parson"" - the role of Reverend David Hall in the solution of Ireland's early twentieth-century housing problems', Irish Geography 32, Pt. II (1999), 95

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, NORTHCOURT AVENUE (NORTH STRAND), HOUSES & SHOPS
Date: 1925
Nature: -
Refs: IB 67, 31 Oct 1925, 893

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARKGATE STREET, NO. 041
Date: 1925
Nature: New shop front.
Refs: IB 67, 18 Apr 1925, 314

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FLEET STREET, NO. 036 & 37
Date: 1925
Nature: Improvements.
Refs: IB 67, 21 Feb 1925, 147

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOPE AVENUE, HOUSES
Date: 1925-1926
Nature: Scheme of 73 houses on East Wall site comprising Leinster Ave, Faith Ave, Hope Ave, Stoney Rd and East Wall Rd, For St Barnabas Public Utility Society.
Refs: IB 67, 11 Jul 1925, 558; 68, 6 Feb 1926, 98; Ruth McManus, 'The "Building Parson" - the role of Reverend David Hall in the solution of Ireland's early twentieth-century housing problems', Irish Geography 32, Pt. II (1999), 95

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, EAST WALL ROAD, HOUSES
Date: 1925-1926
Nature: Scheme of 73 houses on East Wall site comprising Leinster Ave, Faith Ave, Hope Ave, Stoney Rd and East Wall Rd, For St Barnabas Public Utility Society.
Refs: IB 67, 11 Jul 1925, 558; 68, 6 Feb 1926, 98; Ruth McManus, 'The "Building Parson" - the role of Reverend David Hall in the solution of Ireland's early twentieth-century housing problems', Irish Geography 32, Pt. II (1999), 95

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, STONEY ROAD (EAST WALL), HOUSES
Date: 1925-1926
Nature: Scheme of 73 houses on East Wall site comprising Leinster Ave, Faith Ave, Hope Ave, Stoney Rd and East Wall Rd, For St Barnabas Public Utility Society.
Refs: IB 67, 11 Jul 1925, 558; 68, 6 Feb 1926, 98; Ruth McManus, 'The "Building Parson" - the role of Reverend David Hall in the solution of Ireland's early twentieth-century housing problems', Irish Geography 32, Pt. II (1999), 95

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, FAITH AVENUE, HOUSES
Date: 1925-1926
Nature: Scheme of 73 houses on East Wall site comprising Leinster Ave, Faith Ave, Hope Ave, Stoney Rd and East Wall Rd, For St Barnabas Public Utility Society.
Refs: IB 67, 11 Jul 1925, 558; 68, 6 Feb 1926, 98; Ruth McManus, 'The "Building Parson" - the role of Reverend David Hall in the solution of Ireland's early twentieth-century housing problems', Irish Geography 32, Pt. II (1999), 95

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, LEINSTER AVENUE (NORTH STRAND), HOUSES
Date: 1925-1926
Nature: Scheme of 73 houses on East Wall site comprising Leinster Ave, Faith Ave, Hope Rd, Stoney Ave and East Wall Rd, For St Barnabas Public Utility Society.
Refs: IB 67, 11 Jul 1925, 558; 68, 6 Feb 1926, 98; Ruth McManus, 'The "Building Parson" - the role of Reverend David Hall in the solution of Ireland's early twentieth-century housing problems', Irish Geography 32, Pt. II (1999), 95

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SANDFORD ROAD (RANELAGH), HOUSES (005)
Date: 1926
Nature: 5 2-storey houses. Contractor: A. Panton Watkinson, St Stephen's Gn.
Refs: IB 68, 20 Mar 1926, 221

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, LINENHALL STREET AREA, HOUSES (063)
Date: 1926
Nature: 63 2-storey houses (25 5-roomed and 38 4-roomed)  for Linenhall Public Utility Society.  Opening ceremony and laying of naming stone, 14 Oct 1926. Contractors: Collen Bros (£31,500)..
Refs: IB 68, 20 Feb 1926, 141;  Irish Times, 15 Oct 1926.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ?, HOUSING
Date: 1926
Nature: Housing scheme for Mssrs. Wills, tobacco manufacturers.
Refs: IB 68, 13 Nov 1926, 833

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WESTLAND ROW, NO. 036-37 (ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY OF MUSIC)
Date: 1926
Nature: FGH submits report on new roof to Governors, Oct 1926.
Refs: Irish Times, 9 Oct 1926.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CATHAL BRUGHA STREET, ST THOMAS'S CHURCH (CI, NEW)
Date: 1929-1932
Nature: New church in Lombardic Romanesque style built to replace one on Marlborough St destroyed in 1922, for which compensation of £22,000 was granted. On site of old parochial hall.  Dedicated, 21 Dec 1931. Builder: J. & P. Good. Building awarded 1st RIAI Triennial medal.
Refs: Designs exh. RHA 1931 (no. 344), 1933 (nos. 240-242); IB 71, 31 Aug 1929, 765,?784; 73, 9 May 1931, 413; 74, 16 Jan,17 Dec 1932, 64,66(illus.),1117,1121(illus.);  Irish Times, 22 Dec 1931;  Weekly Irish Times, 26 Dec 1931;  JRIAI (1933), 5(illus.),11; illus.(interior) in
The Bell 4, no. 1 (April 1942), 33 (copy in IAA, RPC.96.5); The Architects' Conference, Dublin…1947 (RIBA, 1947), pl. 25; RIAI Yearbook 1948, 11(illus.);  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 125,Pl.95;  exterior illus. in Claude Costegalde & Brian Walker, The Church of Ireland: an illustrated history (2013), 296.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL
Date: 1929;1931-32
Nature: Alts. & adds.
Refs: IB 71, 2 Mar 1929, 194; 73, 26 Sep 1931, 830; 74, 13 Feb 1932, 137; 77, 6 Apr 1935, 269

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOLLYFIELD BUILDINGS (RATHMINES)
Date: 1930
Nature: Blocks of 2-room dwellings, for Rathmines Urban District Council.
Refs: Irish Times, 11 Jun 1931,  IB 72, 1 Mar 1930, 203

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MOUNT PLEASANT BUILDINGS (RANELAGH)
Date: 1930
Nature: Blocks of 2-room flats, for Rathmines Urban District Council.. Contractors: P.J. Fearon & Co., Ranelagh.
Refs: Irish Times, 11 Jun 1931;   IB 72, 1 Mar,8 Nov 1930, 203,1011

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET (& CAVENDISH ROW), ROTUNDA (ROUND ROOM)
Date: 1931
Nature:  Replacement of roof.   Contractors: J. & P. Good, Ltd., Pearse St.  Steelwork by J. & C. McGloughlin, Pearse St.
Refs:  Irish Times, 20 Aug 1921 (illus.).

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MOUNTPLEASANT (RANELAGH), HOUSING SCHEME
Date: 1931
Nature:  3-storey blocks of flats for Dublin Corporation..  Contractor: P.F. Fearon, Ranelagh.
Refs:  Irish Times, 20 Aug 1931 (illus.).

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD, HOUSES (070)
Date: 1931
Nature: Builder: L.C. Ritchie, Glasnevin.
Refs: IB 73, 21 Nov 1931, 1016

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, AILESBURY PARK, HOUSES
Date: 1932
Nature: Houses designed for builder, L.C. Ritchie, Iona Cresc, Glasnevin.
Refs: IB 74, 18 Jun 1932, 568

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERLYN PARK, HOUSES
Date: 1932
Nature: Houses designed for builder, L.C. Ritchie, Merrion Rd
Refs: IB 74, 22 Oct 1932, 952

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION ROAD, HOUSES
Date: 1932
Nature: 2-storey semi-detached houses designed for builder, L.C. Ritchie, Iona Cresc, Glasnevin.
Refs: IB 74, 30 Jan 1932, 114

Building: CO. DUBLIN, MALAHIDE, HOUSE
Date: 1932
Nature: On Malahide Estate, for Lord Talbot de Malahide. Builder: Michael Markey, Malahide.
Refs: IB 74, 27 Aug 1932, 782

Building: CO. DUBLIN, MALAHIDE, HOUSES (002)
Date: 1932
Nature: On Malahide Estate, for Lord Talbot de Malahide. Builder: Michael Markey, Malahide.
Refs: IB 74, 7 May 1932, 436

Building: CO. DUBLIN, MALAHIDE, HOUSES (002)
Date: 1932
Nature: Pair of semi-detached houses, designed for builder, P. Bissett.
Refs: IB 74, 16 Jan 1932, 70

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HEYTESBURY STREET, MEATH HOSPITAL
Date: 1933
Nature: FGH appointed architect for extension.
Refs: IB 75, 25 Feb 1933, 144

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MERRION SQUARE, NO. 030 (ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BOARD)
Date: 1933
Nature: Alts., for Electricity Supply Board.
Refs: IB 75, 14 Jan 1933, 30

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ST STEPHEN'S GREEN, NO. 022 (FRIENDLY BROTHERS' CLUB)
Date: 1933
Nature: Alts. Contractor: McLaughlin & Harvey, Dartmouth Sq.
Refs: IB 75, 4 Jul 1933, 654

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SYDNEY PARADE, HOUSES (002)
Date: 1934
Nature: -
Refs: IB 76, 22 Sep 1934, 819

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, GLOUCESTER STREET LOWER, NO. 040 (ST THOMAS'S NATIONAL SCHOOLS, CI)
Date: 1934
Nature: Adds. & alts.
Refs: IB 76, 8 Sep 1934, 769; 77, 6 Apr 1935, 269

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL
Date: 1934-36
Nature: New nurses' home and out-patients' dept. Tenders invited for erection of nurses' home, Nov 1934. Plans for outpatients' dept. approved by Dublin Corporation, Dec 1934. Tenders invited for carrying out proposed alterations and additions to main building, Apr 1935.
Refs: Design for nurses' home exh. RHA 1936 (no. 292);  Irish Times, 6 Nov 1934, 8 Apr 1935; ; IB 76, 17 Nov 1934, 1003; 77, 12 Jan 1935, 29; 78, 2 May 1936, 358; AJ 89, 22 Jun 1939, 1086

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, ADELAIDE ROAD, ROYAL VICTORIA EYE & EAR HOSPITAL
Date: 1937
Nature: Adds. & alts., with Vincent Kelly.
Refs: Advertisement for tenders,14 Oct 1937, in IAA, Vincent Kelly scrapbook, Acc. 2009/100.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL STREET, ROTUNDA HOSPITAL
Date: 1937-1940
Nature: Rebuilding of students' quarters.
Refs: IB 79, 16 Oct 1937, 928; 80, 20 Aug 1938, 710; 82, 25 May 1940, 339(illus.). Contractor: E. Stone & Sons, Ringsend.

Building: CO. LIMERICK, KILMALLOCK, CHURCH OF SS PETER & PAUL (CI, NEW)
Date: 1938
Nature: New church in Irish Romanesque style. Red brick. Consecrated 29 Jun 1938. (Replacement for previous church, in chancel of ancient church, destroyed by arson 22 Jul 1935.) Builder: John Cleary, Charleville..
Refs: Design exh. RHA 1938 (no. 294); IB 80, 9 Jul 1938, 581; Adrian Hewson, ed., Inspiring Stones: a history of the Church of Ireland Dioceses of Limerick, Ardfert, Aghadoe, Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert, Kilmacduagh & Emly (1995), 55(illus.)

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, STEEVENS'S LANE, STEEVENS'S HOSPITAL
Date: 1938
Nature: Sanitary annexe, mortuary, porter's lodge and alts. to laundry.
Refs: IB 80, 3 Sep 1938, 754

Building: CO. DUBLIN, BLACKDITCH, FEVER HOSPITAL
Date: 1938-1943
Nature: Designed by FGH, with Alan Hope and G. P. Bell. Construction of roads & sewers commenced but work on buildings unlikely to be started until after war.
Refs: Memorandum of agreement between Dublin Fever Hospital and FGH, 10 Nov 1938, in IAA, Hope Collection, Acc. 86/127); designs exh. RHA 1942 (no. 248), 1944 (no. 349); IB 80, 26 Nov 1938, 997; 81, 2 Sep 1939, 76185, 24 Apr,3 Jul 1943, 168,257(illus.)

Building: CO. DUBLIN, MONKSTOWN, ?, DISPENSARY
Date: 1938-39
Nature: Adds.
Refs: IB 80, 5 Mar 1938, 198; 81, 29 Apr 1939, 370

Building: CO. DUBLIN, MALAHIDE, ST MARGARET'S ROAD, NO. 038
Date: 1939
Nature: New house for J.J. Kearns, The Diamond, Malahide.  Builder: P. Bissett & Sons, Malahide. Cost: £816.12s.9d.
Refs: Correspondence &c.between F.G. Hicks, P. Bissett and J.J. Kearns re building of house, Mar-Dec 1939, in possession of Kearns family..

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, COLLEGE GREEN, TRINITY COLLEGE, DIXON MEMORIAL HALL
Date: 1939a
Nature: Opened 1939. (Demolished 1998.)
Refs: Irish Times, 21 Jun 1939; E. McParland, 'The college buildings' in C.H. Holland, ed., Trinity College Dublin and the idea of a university' (1991), 163

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, PARNELL SQUARE, ROTUNDA NURSES' HOME
Date: 1940
Nature: New. Classical. Red brick with figurative keystones. Attic added later.
Refs: Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 164.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KEVIN STREET UPPER, NO. 040 (ST PATRICK'S DEANERY HOUSE)
Date: 1941
Nature: Proposed alterations to garage and stables to form living quarters.
Refs: Drawings, signed and dated May 1941, in Representative Church Body Library, see RCB Library - Architectural Drawings, https://archdrawing.ireland.anglican.org/items/show/4879-4880 (last visited, Mar 2017)

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CHRISTCHURCH PLACE, CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL (CI)
Date: 1946
Nature: Repairs to stonework.
Refs: IB 88, 18 May 1946, 294

Building: WALES, HOLYHEAD, TREARDDUR BAY, MARYLAND
Date: ?
Nature: New house for - Good, solicitor of London.
Refs: Information from Simon Maclachlan, Sissinghurst, Kent, grandson of F.G.Hicks, Jan 2012.

Building: WALES, HOLYHEAD, TREARDDUR BAY, CRAIGLE
Date: ?
Nature: New house, for himself.
Refs: Information from Simon Maclachlan, Sissinghurst, Kent, grandson of F.G.Hicks, Jan 2012.

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, KILLESTER HOUSE (NEW)
Date: ?
Nature: Arts & Crafts style house attributed to FGH by Patrick Farrell.
Refs: Notes on F.G. Hicks by Patrick Farrell, Nutley Lane, Dublin, in IAA, Jones file H100.

Author Title Date Details
E.h.a. 'A nonagenarian architect in Dublin'
1965 IB 107, 27 Feb 1965, 151-2.
Hicks, Frederick George [President's inaugural address to AAI] 1902;1904 IB 44, 9 Oct 1902, 1431-1432; AAI Green Book (1904), 9-34
Hicks, Frederick George 'The Architectural Association of Ireland'
1903 Letter published in Irish Times, 25 Apr 1903, clarifying remark made in his valedictory address to AAI.
Hicks, Frederick George 'Dublin Housing Schemes' 1925 IB 67, 11 Jul 1925, ?. (Paper read at Irish District Meeting of the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers, 15-16 May 1925.)
Hicks, Frederick George [President's Report to RIAI]] 1929 IB 72, 4 Jan 1930, 10. (Text or summary of report read at AGM of RIAI, 19 Dec 1929.)
Hicks, Frederick George [Inaugural address to RIAI] 1929;1930 IB 71, 23 Nov 1929, 1030-1034; JRIAI (1930), 5-9.