Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Engineer and architect, of Portadown, Co. Armagh. Henry Dorman was born on 20 March 1886, the fourth son of JOHN WILLIAM DORMAN JOHN WILLIAM DORMAN , of Raffeen, Kinsale, Co. Cork, by his second wife, Marion Isabella (née Lewis).  He is recorded in the 1901 English census as being at school in St Leonards, Sussex, and in the census of 1911 as living in Manchester .  An engineering graduate, he was architect for the Church of Ireland dioceses of Armagh and Clogher from 1927 or earlier(1) until 1951 or later(2) and was practising from Bridge Street, Portadown in the early 1930s. By the 1970s he was living in Nether Stowey, Somerset. He married Alice Mary Alcock (d. 1965) in 1919 and had one son.(3)

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References

All information in this entry not otherwise attributed is from Burke's Irish Family Records (1976), 377.

(1) Irish Church Directory and Year Book (1927), 48,59.
(2) Irish Church Directory (1951), 54,65.
(3) According to www.familysearch.org (last visited Feb 2014) he had been married previously in Cork in 1913.


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Building: CO. ARMAGH, NEWMILLS (PORTADOWN), PRESBYTERIAN? CHURCH
Date: 1931
Nature: Repairs.
Refs: IB 73, 25 Apr 1931, 372

Building: CO. ARMAGH, AHOREY (PORTADOWN), CHURCH (PR)
Date: 1932
Nature: Repairs.
Refs: IB 74, 4 Jun 1932, 526

Building: CO. ARMAGH, LOUGHGALL, RECTORY
Date: 1933
Nature: New rectory being built to replace 18th cent. rectory destroyed by fire in 1926 (entrance gate piers and outbuildings remain).  Contractors: Thomas Hyde & Sons, Portadown.
Refs: IB 75, 25 Mar 1933, 248;  Kevin V. Mulligan, The Buildings of Ireland: South Ulster (2013), 419.