Robert Denny
Robert Denny (1843-1888)
1889 Obituary [1]
ROBERT DENNY, the fifth son of the late Rev. Henry Denny, Rector of Churchill, Diocese of ardport, of Churchill, in the County of Kerry, was born on the 5th of June, 1843.
He was educated at Beaumont College, Co. Cork, and in 1862 was articled for three years to Mr. W. R. Le Fanu, by whom he was employed on part of the Nenagh extension of the Great Southern and Western Railway, as assistant in charge of the works, and afterwards on the same line, under Messrs. Cotton and Flemyng, when Mr. Le Fanu had retired from the engineering profession. From these gentlemen he received the most flattering testimonials.
He subsequently worked with Mr. J. C. Burke, of Westminster, and in the year 1870 started engineering business independently in Tralee. Thenceforward, until a short time previous to his death, he was associated in all the principal works carried out in Kerry, his native county. These works were of a varied nature, and comprised: The Castleisland Railway (a branch of the Great Southern and Western); the Tralee Waterworks; the Limerick and Kerry Railway (in which work he was associated with Mr. W. Barrington; the Fenit Railway, and the Tralee and Fenit Pier and Harbour works, of which Mr. Benjamin Baker was Engineer-in-Chief. The last work which Mr. Denny carried out was a scheme for providing a water-supply to the town of Killarney. All these works were successfully completed, and their success was in a great measure due to the local supervision exercised by Mr. Denny.
His genial and sociable manner caused him to be a universal favourite, while his attention to business and his integrity gained him the respect and esteem of his professional brethren. He died on the 25th of July, 1888, regretted by all who knew him.
Mr. Denny was elected a Member of the Institution on the 4th of December, 1883.