for the wealthy and aristocratic of Dublin; two examples of his work survive in Henrietta Street (illustrated above right). His design at No.9 was for his first cousin Mrs Thomas Carter. Tragically it was to be a short period, within weeks of receiving the freedom of Dublin, he was struck down with an abscess and died of septicaemia 16 November 1733 at his home, The Grove, Stillorgan, aged just 34. His remains were buried on 10 December 1733 in St Mary's Graveyard, Donnybrook. His widow and four children survived him. Ann died at her house in St Stephen's Green Dublin on 15 July 1749 and was buried at Donnybrook on 17 July 1749. Edward Lovett Pearce's rise had been meteoric; in just six years of architectural practice he had scaled the greatest heights of both private and civic architectural practice. He had introduced Palladianism to a country which was to adopt it with a gusto unlike any other European country. At the time of his death he presided over an entire community of Palladian architects perpetuating his interpretations of Palladio's work throughout Ireland. See also Georgian Dublin Architecture of Ireland References External links Cashel Palace Castletown Bellamont House Stillorgan Obelisk Henrietta Street, Dublin 1699 births 1733 deaths Deaths from sepsis Infectious disease deaths in Ireland Irish architects Irish knights Irish MPs 1727–1760 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Meath constituencies People from County Meath Surveyors General of Ireland Lovett, Edward Lovett Burials at Donnybrook Cemetery Georgian architecture in Ireland 18th-century Irish architects