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Addresses:(15) Work: 21 Marlborough Street (as John Semple & Son), 1824-1829; 20 Marlborough Street (as John Semple & Son), 1830-1833; City Assembly House, William Street, 1836; 40 Dame Street, 1838-39; 31 College Green, 1841; 12 College Green, 1841;(16) 13 College Green, 1843-1848.
Home: Lilliput, Donnybrook, 1836-1843; Eglinton House, Seaview Terrace, Donnybrook, 1844-47; Seaview Terrace, Donnybrook, 1849-1850; Merrion Lodge, Merrion, 1852-1853; Air Lodge, 50 Rathmines Upper, 1856; 21 Pleasant's Street, 1857-1869; 78 Heytesbury Street, 1870-1871; 5 Harrington Street, 1872-1873; 6 Ontario Terrace, Rathmines, 1876 until death.
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References
All biographical information in this entry not otherwise accounted for is from Étain Murphy, A Glorious Extravaganza: the history of Monkstown Parish Church(2003), 56-65. Semple's church architecture has been treated by M. Craig, 'John Semple and his churches', Irish Arts Review Year Book 1989-1990, 145-150, and Cormac Allen, 'The Semple Temples: the church architecture of John Semple & Son', unpublished architectural dissertation submitted to UCD. 1993. (Cormac Allen also wrote a more comprehensive account of the Semples' work in 'The Architecture of John Semple & Son', an unpublished M Arch Sc thesis submitted to UCD in 1995, Information from Colm O'Brien, Apr 2012.)
(1) Bolger MSS, NA PRO 1A 58,128.
(2) Allen (1993), p.5, suggests that the death of Archbishop William Magee in 1831 'may have deprived his architects of an influential sponsor in the 1834 reorganisation of the Church of Ireland's building activities'.
(3) CARD XVIII, 515; XIX, 3.
(4) CARD XIX, 113.
(5) CARD XIX, 65.
(6) CARD XIX, 113.
(7) CARD XIX, 128.
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CARD XIX, 142.
(9) IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44.
(10) NA, Pembroke Estate collection, 2011/2/3/3.
(12) Dublin Evening Post, 9 Jun 1849.
(12) Information from Frederick O'Dwyer.
(13) Craig, op. cit., above, 150.
(14) Appendix to the Thirtieth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland, 950.
(15) From Wilson's, Pettigrew & Oulton's, Post Office Thom's directories (and Jones's transcripts from latter), and Murphy, op.cit., above, 65.
(16) This is his address on the road survey in the National Archives, dated 9 Dec 1841 (see note 10, above).
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