Thom's Irish Who's Who/Fletcher, George

FLETCHER, George, Fellow of the Geological Society; Member, Royal Irish Academy: Member of Council, Royal Dublin Society, and Chairman of Committee of Science and its Industrial Applications. Chairman of Committee, Irish Geographical Association. Assistant Secretary in respect of Technical Instruction, Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland. Engaged in Electrical Engineering and teaching Science and Technology, 1882-1894; Inspector of Science and Art Schools, Department of Science and Art and Board of Education (1894-1901); Lecturer in Agriculture, etc., for Derbyshire County Council (1891-1894); Lecturer for National Association of Colliery Managers; Lecturer, Oxford University Extension (1899). Senior Inspector of Technical Instruction, Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (1901-1904); Assistant Secretary in respect of Technical Instruction from 1904. Member of Committee on Intermediate Education in Ireland of the Drafting Committee for Irish Education Bill (1919); of Irish Peat Inquiry Committee (Fuel Research Board) 1917-18; of Water Power Resources of Ireland Sub-Committee; of Board of Trade (1918-1920); Assessor, Advisory Council of Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and Member of Ford Investigation Board; b. June 8th, 1862; m. Jan. 20th, 1886; six children, 5 sons, 1 dau. (4 living). Pubns.: Technical Education in Ireland; Journal of Royal Society of Arts (1912); Education in Ireland; The Teachers' Encyclopaedia (1912); Reconstruction and Development—Some Irish Problems (D.A.T.I., 1918), and numerous articles in Journal of Department and elsewhere; The Provinces of Ireland (5 volumes), Editor and Contributor (1921-22). Recns.: travelling, sketching. Res.: Mona, Shankill, Co. Dublin. Clubs: Automobile, London; United Services: United Arts, Dublin.