| Robert Sorley Lawrie | |
| Birth Date: | 27 June 1903 |
| Practice: | Dublin Corporation |
| Significant Buildings: | Inchicore Public Library Ringsend Public Library Phibsborough Public Library Drumcondra Public Library |
Robert Sorley Lawrie (27 June 190323 May 1977) was a Scottish architect who worked in the department of the Dublin City Architect Horace Tennyson O'Rourke.[1] [2]
He was probably a son of Robert Lawrie, a plumber, of 12 Claremont Street, Aberdeen and his wife Jennie Robb.[1] He studied architecture at Robert Gordon's College from September 1919 to June 1921 then was a pupil of George Bennett Mitchell in Aberdeen until September 1924.[1] He returned to Robert Gordon's College for the post-diploma course which he completed in June 1925.[1]
He and Herbert George Simms were appointed assistant architects to the Dublin City Commissioners in June 1929.[1] He was responsible for most of the work of converting Charlemont House to the Municipal Gallery in 1933.[1] He designed the Inchicore Public Library in 1937 and was responsible for ones in Ringsend, Phibsborough and Drumcondra all built the same year.[1] [3] [4]
He was living in Dublin in 1945 but had left by 1947, taking up the post of County Architect for Fife.[2] [1]
He married Anne Dempster McDowall on 1 June 1933.[2] [1] She survived him.[2] [1]