Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Architect, of Dublin and Melbourne, Australia.  Thomas Anthony Kelly, who appears to have been the son of Thomas Hawkesworth Kelly, of Dublin, an assistant clerk in the Insolvent Debtors Court,(1) was appointed superintending architect for the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, by the directors on 10 July 1863.(2) JOHN MCCURDY  JOHN MCCURDY was appointed chief architect at the same meeting  which may indicate that Kelly had been his pupil or assistant. Kelly had been an entrant in the Carlisle Bridge competition of 1862(3) and was also to enter the O'Connell monument competition of 1864-1865.(4) 

Thomas Hawkesworth Kelly died in Paris in December 1869.   By 1870 Thomas Anthony  Kelly was living in Melbourne, Australia, where he designed the Good Shepherd chapel at Abbotsford (1870-1871). He married Catherine Bullen in Melbourne on 20 February 1873.(5)  Later the same year he became insolvent, having acted as guarantee for a contractor whose business failed.(6)  At around the same time he designed a gothic chapel for the Sacred Heart College, Geelong, Victoria (1871-1874).

RIAI: elected associate, 17 December 1863;(7) ceased membership 1867 or 1868.

Address: 20 Lower Ormond Quay, 1864-67.

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References



(1) Irish Times, 6 May 1873.
(2) DB 5, 15 Jul 1863, 122.
(3) DB 4, 15 Sep 1862, 237.
(4) Freeman's Journal, 18 Feb 1865.

(5) See note 1, above.
(6) The Argus (Melbourne), 14 Oct 1873.
(7) RIAI council meeting minutes, 26 Nov 1863, 8; general meeting minutes, 17 Dec 1863, 134. 


3 work entries listed in chronological order for KELLY, THOMAS ANTHONY


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1862
Nature: Competition entrant.
Refs: DB 4, 15 Sep 1862, 237

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUN LAOGHAIRE, GRESHAM TERRACE, ROYAL MARINE HOTEL
Date: 1862
Nature: TAK appointed superintending architect.
Refs: DB 4, 15 Sep 1862, 237

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, O'CONNELL STREET LOWER, O'CONNELL MONUMENT
Date: 1864-1865
Nature: Entrant in 1st competition.
Refs: Freeman's Journal, 18 Feb 1865 (design described).