7 8 A HISTORY OF 



Several of these members have been already noticed, 

 and many of them are so well known as to require no 

 remark in this narrative. A few, however, deserve 

 especial mention, as having been regular attendants at 

 the meetings of the Society, and as working on various 

 committees. 



(i) Richard Pococke (who was at this time Arch- 

 deacon of Dublin) was a native of Hampshire. He was 

 chaplain to Lord Chesterfield, and Bishop of Ossory 1756 

 to 1765, when he was translated to Meath, a see which he 

 held for a very short time, dying almost immediately after 

 his translation. Pococke was a great traveller, and pub- 

 lished an account of his Travels in the East. His Tour in 

 Ireland in 1 752 was edited by the late Rev. Professor G. 

 T. Stokes. He collected fossils, stones, minerals, &c, and 

 bequeathed his collection, as well as one of coins and medals, 

 to the British Museum. Pococke was a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society. 



(2) Richard Castles, or Castle x (as he himself wished to 

 be called), whose real name was de Richardi, as appears 

 by his will, was a native of Saxony, and an architect by 

 profession, who settled in Ireland under the patronage of 

 Sir Gustavus Hume, bart., and was the first to introduce 

 here the Palladian style. He is said to have arrived in the 

 country about 1727, and his principal works include the 

 Printing House and Dining Hall, Trinity College; Leinster 

 House, Kildare street, and Tyrone House, Marlborough 

 street, all dating between 1734 and 1 745, as well as several 

 other mansions in Dublin. He designed Powerscourt 

 House, co. Wicklow ; Ballyhaise, co. Cavan (one of the 

 most remarkable of his works) ; Hazlewood, and Summer- 

 hill, " which in his own day was considered his master- 

 piece." In conjunction with Bindon, Castle erected Lord 

 Aldborough's mansion at Belan, co. Kildare, and Russ- 

 borough, co. Wicklow, for Lord Milltown. He published 



1 " Richard Castle, Architect," by T. U. SzdWer, Journal R. S. A. /., 

 xli. 241. 



