The Beckett family, of Huguenot origin, were prominent Dublin builders in the 19th-20th centuries, constructing cottages in South Lotts and Ringsend, and elsewhere. William Beckett’s son, Samuel Beckett, became a celebrated writer, commemorated by the Samuel Beckett Bridge in Dublin’s docklands.
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