Shellshear, Walter (1856 - 1939)

Summary

Walter Shellshear MInstCE, was a civil engineer in the New South Wales Railways Department, from 1882, rising to Deputy Engineer-in-Chief 1905 - 1910 and Engineer-in-Chief 1910 - 1912. He was involved with many important works, including an additional generating plant for the Ultimo Tramway Power House; station yard re-arrangement for the new Sydney station 1906; the renewal of the steel in two miles of timber viaducts across the Murrumbidgee flats at Wagga Wagga; and the new Nepean bridge at Penrith 1907.

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Chronology

c. 1873

Education - Mathematics, King's College, London

1873 - 1876

Education - Apprenticeship, Robert Napier and Sons, Engineers and Shipbuilders, Glasgow

1877

Career position - Draftsman, Dukes and Co, Locomotive Builders, Glasgow

1877 - 1878

Education - Certificate of proficiency in Engineering Science, University of Glasgow

1878 - 1879

Career position - Engineering assistant, George Berkley, Vice-president, ICE [Design of bridges and the supply of materials and surveys for the Indian government railways. Berkley proposed Shellshear for AssocMInstCE 1882]

1879

Life event - Migrated to New South Wales

1880 - 1882

Career position - Draftsman, Department of Public Works, New South Wales [Bridge works under W. C. Bennett]

1881

Career event - Member, Engineering Association of New South Wales

1882 - 1886

Career position - Draftsman, Railways Department, New South Wales

5 Dec 1882

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

1885 - 1886

Career position - President, Engineering Association of New South Wales

1885 - 1887

Career position - Member of Council, Engineering Association of New South Wales

1886 - 1903

Career position - District engineer, Metropolitan District, Railways Department

1888

Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

3 May 1892

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

1903 - 1905

Career position - Inspecting engineer, Railways Department

1905 - 1910

Career position - Deputy Engineer-in-Chief, Railways Department [under James Fraser]

1910 - 1912

Career position - Engineer-in-Chief, Railways Department

1912 - 1921

Career position - Consulting and Inspecting Engineer, New South Wales, in London [Inspecting and supervising all materials ordered for New South Wales government works]

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Published resources

Book Sections

• Singleton, C. C., 'Shellshear, Walter (1856-1939)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 6: 1851 - 1890 R - Z, Bede Nairn, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1976), pp. 116-117. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A060130b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Shellshear, Walter, 'Presidential address. Engineering Association of New South Wales', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 1 (1885), 9-20, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/2622. Details
• Shellshear, Walter, 'On the construction of breakwaters and training jetties', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 1 (1886), 89-119, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/2628. Details
• Shellshear, Walter, 'On the application of the converging jetty system', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 2 (1887), 78-91, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/2711. Details
• Shellshear, Walter, 'On the modern tendency of railway practice', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 4 (1889), 54-67, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/2911. Details
• Shellshear, Walter; Poole, W. T.; Laing, J., 'Discussion on the construction of breakwaters and training jetties', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 1 (1886), 120-134, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/2629. Details
• Shellshear, Walter; Wells, W. S.; Selfe, N.; Cruickshank, W. D., 'Discussion on Mr. W. Shellshear's paper, "On the modern tendency of railway practice"', Minutes of proceedings of the Engineering Association of New South Wales, 4 (1889), 68-69, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/EANSW/article/view/2912. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21539095. Details
• 'The Sydney Tramways (including appendix)', Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/imotp.1885.21517. Details
• Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 5189, 1882', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
• 'Shellshear, Walter (1856-1939)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1468622. Details

See also

• 'Port improvements at Newcastle, New South Wales', Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/imotp.1921.14838. Details