Maurice Fitzmaurice

Maurice Fitzmaurice

Born	11 May 1861 Clogher, County Kerry, Ireland
Died	17 November 1924(1924-11-17) (aged 63) London, United Kingdom
Resting place	Brookwood Cemetery
Nationality	Irish
Education	Trinity College, Dublin
Spouse(s)	Ida Dickinson
Engineering career
Discipline	Civil
Institutions	Institution of Civil Engineers (president), American Society of Civil Engineers (hon), Royal Society (fellow), Society of Engineers (hon fellow),
Projects	Aswan Dam, Forth Bridge, Sennar Dam,

Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice CMG (11 May 1861–17 November 1924) was an Irish civil engineer. He was apprenticed to Benjamin Baker and worked with him on the Forth Railway Bridge before going to Egypt to build the Aswan Dam for which he was appointed both a member of the Ottoman Order of the Mejidiye and a companion of the British Order of St Michael and St George. Following this Fitzmaurice was Chief Engineer to the London County Council and was responsible for the Blackwall, Rotherhithe and Woolwich tunnels. In later life his consultancy advised on docks and harbours across the British Commonwealth as well as the Sennar Dam in Sudan and he was recognised with the prestigious honour of the presidency of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the 1916-17 session.

Fitzmaurice was born at Clogher, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland in 1861. He received an education at The Royal School, Armagh prior to studying civil engineering at Trinity College, Dublin from 1878. He graduated in 1882 and was articled (a form of apprenticeship) to Benjamin Baker where his first project was the construction of the south pier and railway approaches to the Forth Railway Bridge. This work finished in 1888 and he spent the next three years working on the aborted construction of the Chignecto Ship Railway in Canada.