Person
Kenyon, Alfred Stephen (1867 - 1943)
- Born
- 7 December 1867
Homebush, near Maryborough, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 14 May 1943
Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Civil engineer, Historian and Ethnologist
Summary
Alfred Kenyon was a Victorian public servant from 1887. Positions he held included Engineer in Charge of Town Water Supplies, Engineer for Agriculture and Engineer in Charge of Water Supply, North-west Mallee. Kenyon was involved in opening up the northern and western Mallee and extending the districts irrigated from the Murray. From November 1932 to January 1935 Kenyon was Commissioner of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission. He is noted for his pioneer studies in ethnology of Victorian Aborigines and pastoral history.
Details
Chronology
- 1887 - 1888
- Career position - Engineering Assistant, Public Works Department, Victoria
- 1888 - 1891
- Career position - Draughtsman, Department of Water Supply, Victoria
- 1891 - 1899
- Career position - Acting Assistant Engineer, Department of Water Supply, Victoria
- 1896
- Career event - Member (MAusIME), Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers
- 1899 - 1906
- Career position - Assistant Engineer, Department of Mines and Water Supply, Victoria
- 1902
- Career event - Gave evidence to the "Interstate Royal Commission on the River Murray"
- 1906
- Career position - Engineer for Agriculture, Department of Agriculture, Victoria [under Dr. Thomas Cherry. Undertaking works of water supply, land drainage and setlement throughout Victoria.]
- 1906
- Career event - Certificate of competency as Hydraulic engineer (with merit)
- 1906
- Career event - Member, Royal Society of Victoria
- 1910 - c. 1920
- Career position - Engineer-in-charge, North-West Mallee, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission
- 1911
- Career event - Member, and Councillor, Historical Society of Victoria
- 1915
- Career event - Published "The Story of the Mallee"
- 1919
- Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Formerly member of Melbourne University Engineering Society]
- 1919
- Career event - Member, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy [Formerly member of Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers]
- 1921 - 1932
- Career position - Senior engineer, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission
- 1922
- Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1927 - 1928
- Career position - Chairman, Melbourne division, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1928
- Career position - President, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
- 1931 - 1935
- Career position - President, (Royal) Historical Society of Victoria
- 1932 - 1935
- Career position - Commissioner, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission
- 1935
- Life event - Retired
Related entries
Archival resources
Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc
- Alfred Stephen Kenyon - Records, 1907 - 1942; Royal Historical Society of Victoria Inc. Details
State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
- Alfred Stephen Kenyon - Records, 1905 - 1934, MS 12261; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details
- Records, ca. 1883-1980. [manuscript], c. 1883 - 1980, YMS 11170; Institution of Engineers, Australia. Victoria Division.; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- McNicoll, Ronald, 'Kenyon, Alfred Stephen (1867-1943), engineer, ethnologist and historian' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 9 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 572-573. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090572b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Obituary: Alfred Stephen Kenyon, MIE Aust', Australian Journal of Science, 6 (1) (1943), 28-29. Details
- Churchyard, J. N., 'Pioneers of Irrigation in Victoria, Number 9 - A. S. Kenyon', Aqua: Official Journal of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Victoria (1957), 259-, 44-. Details
- Daley, C, 'Death of Mr. A. S. Kenyon', The Victorian naturalist, 60 (2) (1943), 29-30, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40754557. Details
- East, L. R., 'Tribute to A. S. Kenyon', Aqua: Official Journal of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Victoria (1957), 44. Details
- Kenyon, A. S., 'Extracts From the Diary of Dr Neumayer, in His 'The Story of the Mallee'', Victorian Historical Magazine, 4 (1914), 64-70. Details
Parliamentary papers
- Interstate Royal Commission on the River Murray, Interstate Royal Commission on the River Murray, representing the states of New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia : Report of the Commissioners, with minutes of evidence, appendices and plans (Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide: 1902), 60, 359 pp. https://pov.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_GB/parl_paper/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:34095/one. Gave evidence. Minutes of Evidence pp.5, 125, 130, 190. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24082467. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/13779724. Details
- 'Kenyon, A S (1867-1943)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-631038. Details
McCarthy, G.J.; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 April 2023
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