Francis Goold Morony Stoney

Francis Goold Morony Stoney (5 April 1837 – 7 August 1897) was a Victorian era Irish engineer, noted for his work on sluice design.

Early life and education Francis Goold Morony Stoney was born on 5 April 1837 at Arran Hill (sometimes Arranhill), County Tipperary, the son of Thomas George Stoney, a Justice of the peace and his wife, Anna Henrietta Waller. He had 7 siblings including the engineer, Edward Waller Stoney, through whom Stoney was a granduncle of Alan Turing. He was educated at Queen's College in Belfast before being articled to John Macneill, a railway engineer.

Career Stoney later became manager of the Dundalk Ironworks. In May 1865 he was employed by a Clyde-based shipbuilding company, John Elder & Co.

Family He married Annie Elizabeth Duncan (1843-1923) only daughter of Alexander Duncan on the 10 August 1865 at Dundalk. They had one son Edward Duncan Stoney (1868-1898) a civil engineer who also worked for Ransomes & Rapier in Ipswich. Stoney died at Neuenahr in Germany, on 7 August 1897, aged 61.