Career
He was notable in being a prolific designer of utilitarian structures as a county surveyor, with many practical schemes proposed. His designs, however, were often flamboyant in practicing a Ruskinian Gothic blend of Victoian Italianate and Venetian Renaissance styles, heavily influenced by the writer John Ruskin (1819–1900). Brett"s first employment was for William Dargan on the railways, then he was appointed county surveyor for the western division of Company
Limerick (1863), Company
Kildare (1869), Company Antrim (1885). Brett retired February 1914 and was made a Justice of the Peace for Company