Background
Fitzmaurice was born at Clogher, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland in 1861.
Fitzmaurice was born at Clogher, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland in 1861.
He graduated in 1882 and was articled (a form of apprenticeship) to Benjamin Baker where his first project was the construction of the south pier and railway approaches to the Forth Railway Bridge. This work finished in 1888 and he spent the next three years working on the aborted construction of the Chignecto Ship Railway in Canada.
Following this Fitzmaurice was Chief Engineer to the and was responsible for the Blackwall, Rotherhithe and Woolwich tunnels. In later life his consultancy advised on docks and harbours across the British Commonwealth as well as the Sennar Dam in Sudan and he was recognised with the prestigious honour of the presidency of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the 1916-17 session. He received an education at The Royal School, Armagh prior to studying civil engineering at Trinity College, Dublin from 1878.
Fitzmaurice left Baker in 1892 and joined as a resident engineer where his first project was the Blackwall Tunnel. He worked with David Hay and the two authored a paper on the project published by the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1897.Watt Medals and Telford Premiums were awarded to David Hay, M. Inst. C.E., and Maurice Fitzmaurice, B.E., M. Inst.
C.E., for their joint Paper on " The Blackwall Tunnel."
He was then appointed chief resident engineer in 1898 by the Egyptian government for the construction of the Old Aswan Dam. Upon his retirement from the council in 1912 he received a knighthood. Fitzmaurice first became involved with the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1883 as a student member, becoming an associate in 1887 and a full member in 1893.
He served on the institution's council from 1905 and was elected president for the 1916-7 session. He received an honorary doctorate of law from the University of Birmingham in 1909.
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In 1919 he was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society and was an honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Royal Engineers Institution and an honorary fellow of the Society of Engineers.