William Kaye Parry
William Kaye Parry (c1852-1932)
1932 Obituary[1]
"THE LATE MR. W. KAYE PARRY.
The death was announced on the 11th inst. of Mr. William Kaye Parry, formerly of Dublin, in his eightieth year. Mr. Kaye Parry enjoyed a very extensive civil engineering practice mainly in Ireland. He graduated in Arts at Dublin University in 1873 and took his degree of Bachelor of Engineering in 1875, taking first in Practical Engineering. He commenced practice in 1877, and in 1899 he entered into partnership with Mr. G. M. Ross. He was not only a civil engineer by profession but practised as an architect, being a Fellow of the Royal Institution of British Architects.
He was consultant to various drainage and sanitary authorities in Ireland including at one time and another the Ulster Sanitary Association; the Armagh Town Commissioners; Clontarf Urban District Council, Killarney District Council; Rathdown Union; New Ross District Council; and was chief engineer to the Blackrockand Kingstown Main Drainage Board, the Tul-lamore Urban Council, Abbeyleix District Council, &c. He carried out the Abbeyleix drainage works, Tullamore drainage and sewage works, Richmond main drainage, Malahide main drainage and Northallerton sewage works, and works connected with drainage or water supply, &c., at Mullingar Asylum, Maynooth, for the Duke of Leinster, Cornbury Park (Oxon.), for Mr. H. Du Cros, the Viceregal Lodge, Dublin, Dublin Castle, Ormiston Lodge for Lord Pirrie, Lismore Castle and others. He was also responsible for open sea baths, bridgework, and electric lighting schemes.
He was made an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1894, being transferred to full membership in 1899. He resigned in 1926. He contributed to the Proceedings in 1901, jointly with Dr. W. E. Adeney, a paper on “ The Discharge of Sewage into a Tidal Estuary.” He was also a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland, and was awarded by that body a Mullins gold medal and Mullins silver medal for contributions to its proceedings. Among his other contributions to the literature of the profession may be mentioned “ Sanitary Protection,” a course of lectures delivered before the Royal Dublin Society. He was Fellow and examiner of the Royal Sanitary Institute and was examiner in sanitary engineering for Dublin University, being a member of the Senate of that body."