Editing Percy Ludgate (section)

== Life ==
Ludgate was born on 2 August 1883 in [[Skibbereen]], [[County Cork]], to Michael Ludgate and Mary McMahon.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Randell|first=Brian|date=2009|title=Ludgate, Percy|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/ludgate-percy-a4912|access-date=2021-10-13|website=Dictionary of Irish Biography}}</ref><ref name="itimes" /> In the 1901 census, he is listed as [[Civil Servant]] National Education (Boy Copyist) in [[Dublin]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Glasnevin/Dargle_Road/1273904/ | work=Census Years 1901 | title=Residents of a house 30 in Dargle Road (Glasnevin, Dublin) | publisher=[[The National Archives of Ireland]] | date=1901 }}</ref> In the 1911 census, he is also in Dublin, as a Commercial Clerk (Corn Merchant).<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Glasnevin/Dargle_Road__Drumcondra/16792 | work=Census Years 1911 | title=Residents of a house 30 in Dargle Road, Drumcondra (Glasnevin, Dublin) | publisher=[[The National Archives of Ireland]] | date=1911 }}</ref> He studied accountancy at [[Rathmines College of Commerce]], earning a gold medal based on the results of his final examinations in 1917.<ref name="LudgateBook">{{cite book | first1=Brian | last1=Coghlan| first2=Brian | last2=Randell |year=2022 |title=Percy Ludgate (1883-1922): Ireland's First Computer Designer |pages=1–240 |publisher=The John Gabriel Byrne Computer Science Collection |isbn=978-1-911566-29-8 }}</ref> At some date before or after then, he joined Kevans & Son, accountants.<ref name=":0" />