Major bequest for museum

WATERFORD Museum of Treasures has secured a major bequest including letters from descendents of architect John Roberts’s family.

Felicity Binyon and Patricia Spence, two descendants of Roberts and relatives of Field Marshall Lord Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford, presented Mayor of Waterford Mary Roche with the materials yesterday morning.

Mr Roberts was born in Waterford in 1714 and died in1796. A Georgian architect, he was the only person to design both Protestant and Catholic cathedrals in the same city, namely Christchurch Cathedral and the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity in Waterford.