Richard Morrison

Sir Richard Morrison (1767 – 31 October 1849 / 1844) was an Irish architect. Life He was born at Midleton, County Cork, the son of John Morrison, also an architect. Originally intended for the church, he was eventually placed as a pupil with James Gandon, the celebrated architect, in Dublin. He obtained through his godfather, Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Shannon, a post in the ordnance department at Dublin, but this he abandoned. when he entered into full-time practice as an architect. He married Elizabeth Ould, daughter of the Reverend William Ould, and granddaughter of the noted physician Sir Fielding Ould, and had at least four children. Having resided for some time at Clonmel, where his second son, William Vitruvius was born, he moved about 1800 to Dublin and settled at Bray, County Wicklow. He died at Bray on 31 October 1849, and was buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin. Other sources claim that his death was in 1844. He was a founder-member in 1839 and the first vice-president of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. In 1793 he published Useful and Ornamental Designs in Architecture.