Edited sentence: 1820 – 17 October 1904) was an Irish Architect noted for his design work on a number of large public buildings in Dublin, including the Natural History Museum and Arbour Hill Prison.Arbour Hill Prison was redesigned in 1845 by Sir.Architecture of Ireland.Clarendon died in Mountjoy Square, Dublin in 1904.Clarendon oversaw the renovation and extension of the Royal Irish Academy's premises on Dawson Street between 1852 and 1854, as their existing Grafton Street location had become overcrowded.Clarendon provided his services free of charge to design the Mariners Hall, Howth in 1867.Clarendon's earliest major works focussed on Dublin's prison system.Clarendon's most remembered work is Ireland's Natural History Museum on Merrion Street adjacent to Leinster House, known as the "Dead Zoo".Directly after graduation he was employed by the Office of Public Works, where he would remain until his retirement in 1887.Frederick Clarendon was born in Dublin around 1820 and received a Bachelor of Arts at Dublin University in 1839.Frederick Villiers Clarendon (c.Joshua Jebb with Clarendon acting as executive architect, and Clarendon was also co-designer of the "Criminal Lunatic Asylum" in Dundrum two years later.The Royal Dublin Society had been obliged to use a public architect in order to obtain treasury funding, and the building was taken over by the State in 1877.This then served as a Presbyterian Meeting House for over thirty years, services being conducted through the medium of Scottish Gaelic, the language of the immigrant seasonal fishermen of the village.Today the Museum forms part of the National Museum of Ireland