Barraclough, Samuel Henry Egerton (Henry) (1871 - 1958)

Summary

Sir Henry Egerton Barraclough was Professor of Mechanical Engineering and later Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Sydney 1915-1941. During the 1914-1918 war he administered the Australian Munition Workers Scheme in London.

Details

CBE (military division) 1919, KBE 1920, Volunteer Officers' Decoration. Educated University of Sydney (BE 1892) and Sibley College of Engineering, Cornell University (MME 1894). Lecturer-in-charge, department of (applied) physics, Sydney Technical College and teacher of physics at Sydney High 1895-96; assistant lecturer in mechanical engineering, Peter Nicol Russell school of engineering, University of Sydney 1897-1907, also lectured in military engineering in the department of military science; assistant professor 1908-14; professor of mechanical engineering 1915-41; dean, faculty of engineering 1924-33, 1936-41; Fellow, senate 1925-33, 1938-56. War service as censor with Intelligence and in charge of the Australian munitions workers in England and France.

President, engineering section, Royal Society of New South Wales,

Chronology

1892

Education - Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) (BE), University of Sydney

1 Mar 1898

Career event - Associate Member (AssocMInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London

1901 - 1902

Career position - Founding President, Sydney University Engineering Society

1914 - 1915

Career position - President, Engineering Association of New South Wales

1919

Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1919

Award - Order of the British Empire - Commander (Military) (OBE) - Army Staff Corps AIF

1920

Award - Order of the British Empire - Knights Commander (KBE)

1920

Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1920

Award - Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration (VD), for long and meritorious service as a part-time commissioned officer.

2 Mar 1920

Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London

1935

Career position - President, Institution of Engineers Australia

1937

Career position - President, Section H, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science

1939

Award - Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal - Career Achievement Award in Engineering. Institution of Engineers Australia

1943

Award - Honorary Member (HonMIEAust), Institution of Engineers, Australia

Related entries

Archival resources

University of Sydney, Archives

• Samuel Henry Egerton Barraclough - Records, 1847 - 1948, P 10; University of Sydney, Archives. Details

Published resources

Book Sections

• Antill, J. M., 'Barraclough, Sir Samuel Henry Egerton (1871-1958)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 7 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 184-185, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barraclough-sir-samuel-henry-egerton-5141. Details

Conference Papers

• Dwyer, M. R., 'Engineers' Papers: An Undervalued Historical Source', in Fifth National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1990: Interpreting Engineering Heritage; Preprints of Papers (Perth, Western Australia: Institution of Engineers, Australia, Western Australian Division, 1990), pp. 29-34.. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.623644955225119. Details

Journal Articles

• Barraclough, S. H. E.; Strickland, T. P., 'Experimental investigation of the flow of water in uniform channels', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 31 (1897), 356-376, http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41845106. Details
• Barraclough, Samuel Henry Egerton, 'Sir John Monash - Engineer', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 3 (1931), 363-364. Details
• Barraclough, Sir Henry; Gibson, W. H. H., 'The new Dalby Straining Machine with characteristic applications', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 10 (1938), 107-. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Twenty-third Annual Report [1942]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 15 (1943), 35-51. 'Engineering Standardisation - The Institution [of Engineers Australia] has been represented on the Council of the Standards Association during 1942 by: Sir Henry Barraclough, Mr R J Boyd, Mr H G Carter, Colonel W D Chapman, Mr A J Gibson and Mr T H Upton', p.38. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Twenty-third Annual Report [1942]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 15 (1943), 35-51. 'Honorary Membership - Sir Henry Barraclough, KBE VD ME, Emeritus Professor of Engineering, University of Sydney, awarded Honorary Membership', p.38. Details
• James, Brian, 'A huge lightning strike, and the discovery of the pinch effect', Australian physics, 44 (1) (2007), 9-10,30. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5717824. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/310693131. Details
• Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 9914, 1898', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
• 'Barraclough, Henry (1871-1958)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-560692. Details

Resource Sections

• 'Barraclough, Samuel Henry Egerton', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P000199p.htm. Details
• 'Primary description of person CP 260; Samuel Henry Egerton Barraclough', in RecordSearch, National Archives of Australia, 2000, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?Number=CP%20260. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_b.html. Details
• Ludlow, Christa; Bowie, Ian; Neville, Pamela, 'Chapter 15: Engineering education in Sydney' in Sydney: from settlement to city: an engineering history of Sydney, Don Fraser, ed. (Crows Nest, New South Wales: Engineers Australia, 1989), pp. 285-298. Details
• Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia (Melbourne: Defence Science and Technology Organisation, 1995), 267 pp. Details