Person
Corbould, William Thomas Henry (1866 - 1949)
- Born
- 4 November 1866
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 16 March 1949
Monaco - Occupation
- Chemist and Mining engineer
- Alternative Names
- Corbould, Jimmy
Summary
William Corbould, MAusIMM, MIMM, MAIME, MRACI, was known generally in the mining industry as "Jimmy Corbould". He was educated at Ballarat College and Ballarat School of Mines. From 1885 he worked as an assayer and chemist in Broken Hill. He travelled to America but returned to work in Kalgoorlie, Coolgardie and Mount Morgan and was Managing Director of Mount Elliot Ltd, Cloncurry.
Archival resources
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- William Henry Corbould - Records, 1866 - 1949, A3190-2; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Kennedy, K. H., 'Corbould, William Henry (1866-1949), Mining engineer' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 8 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), p. 113. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/corbould-william-henry-5779. Details
Edited Books
- Corbould, W. H.; Hore-Lacy, Ian ed., Broken Hill to Mount Isa : the mining odyssey of W.H. Corbould (Melbourne: Hyland House, 1981), 238 pp. Details
- Whitmore, R. L. ed., Eminent Queensland Engineers [volume 1] (Brisbane, Queensland: The Institution of Engineers, Australia, Queensland Division, 1984), 75 pp. https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2017-01/eqe_vol_i.compressed.pdf. pp.18-19 'W.H. Corbould MAusIMM MIMM MAIME MRACI'. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21539375. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/50573659. Details
- 'Corbould, William Thomas Henry (18661104-19490316)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476944. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 21 August 2019
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