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Newbigin, William Johnstone (1874 - 1927)

Born
12 June 1874
Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Died
20 April 1927
Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Mechanical engineer and Company director

Summary

William Newbigin was Chief of the engineering staff of William Adams & Co. Ltd 1906-1920 and Managing Director from 1922. He was on the CSIR Executive from 1926 and played a leading role in the formation of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. He died in office and was replaced on the CSIR Executive Committee by Dr A.E.V. Richardson.

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Quote from his ADB entry (1988):

"Recognizing the weakness of a fragmented profession, further subdivided by State boundaries, he played an important part with R. W. H. Hawken and D. F. J. Harricks in the conferences which led to the foundation of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, and was a foundation council-member until his death. He served as vice-president in 1919-20 and as second president in 1921. In his presidential address he stressed the value of individual effort based on reason rather than on emotion. Moving to Sydney in 1922 as managing director of William Adams & Co., Newbigin was a council-member of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce and represented the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Australia on the main committee of the Australian Commonwealth Standards Association and supported standardization at an early stage. In 1926 he was appointed to the executive of the Commonwealth Council for Scientific and Industrial Research under (Sir) George Julius."

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Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

  • William Johnstone Newbigin - Records, 1922 - 1927, MS 041; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

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Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

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See also

  • Beale, Bob, Engineering a Legacy: Memories of the journey of CSIRO Chemical Engineering (Clayton, Victoria: CSIRO Minerals, 2005), 124 pp. pages 6. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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