Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Carpenter and builder, of Dublin.   William Haughton Beardwood, a Lancashire man and a convert to Catholicism, was active as a builder in Dublin from the 1820s until his death in April 1860.(1)  He married Catherine M. Teeling and had six children;  his three sons were WILLIAM HENRY BEARDWOOD WILLIAM HENRY BEARDWOOD , JOHN FRANCIS BEARDWOOD  JOHN FRANCIS BEARDWOOD and Joseph (Dom Camillus) Beardwood, who after completing an apprenticeship to Sir GEORGE MOYERS GEORGE MOYERS , became a Cistercian monk and eventually abbot of Mount St Joseph Abbey, Roscrea.(3)   After William Haughton Beardwood's death JAMES PATRICK BEARDWOOD JAMES PATRICK BEARDWOOD , who may have been his brother, moved into the Westland Row premises and appears to have taken over the firm.(2)

Addresses:(4) 127 Townsend Street, 1828-1830; Great Brunswick Street, 1831; 56 Great Brunswick Street, 1832-1834; 24 & 195 Great Brunswick Steet, 1835->=1841; 10 Westland Row, 1844; 11 Westland Row, 1847.




References

All information in this entry not otherwsie accounted for is from notes in archive of Mount St Joseph, Abbey Roscrea, compiled by Dom Camillus Claffey (1968) about Joseph (Dom Camillus) Beardwood and his family, including information from George Nesbitt, grandson of William Haughton Beardwood.

(1) DB 2, 1 May 1860, 251.
(2) DB 7, ref. not given; St Teresa's Church and Monastery, Clarendon Street: Historical Note (leaflet, 1993ca).
(3) IB 72, 22 Nov 1930, 1040.
(4) From Wilson's Dublin Directory, Post Office Dublin Directory, Pettigrew & Oulton's Dublin Almanac, andThom's Directory.


4 work entries listed in chronological order for BEARDWOOD, WILLIAM HAUGHTON *


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Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, MEATH STREET, CHURCH OF ST CATHERINE (RC)
Date: 1852
Nature: Contractor for same. (Original contract £6,300. Actual amount paid £6,200.)
Refs: B 10, 15 May 1852, 312;  Freeman's Journal, 22 Jan 1856.

Building: CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE
Date: 1852-1853
Nature: Work, including new belfry
Refs: Clonliffe College Archive, Maynoot documents, MS P125/2

Building: CO. KILDARE, MAYNOOTH, ST PATRICK'S COLLEGE
Date: 1859-1860
Nature: New gateway to college cemetery (which was opened in 1817)
Refs: Clonliffe College Archive, Maynoot documents, MS P125/2 (also p7/2 p15)

Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, EARLSFORT TERRACE, EXHIBITION PALACE & WINTER GARDEN
Date: 1863-64
Nature: Contractors for building designed by A.G. Jones.
Refs: DB 6, 1 Aug 1864, 148; IB 56, 31 Aug 1912, ?