Person
Hudson, William (1896 - 1978)
KBE FRS FTS HonFIEAust
- Born
- 27 April 1896
East Nelson, New Zealand - Died
- 12 September 1978
Red Hill, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Occupation
- Civil engineer
Summary
Sir William Hudson was Commissioner of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority 1949-1967 and previously was responsible for the construction of many other dams. Hudson's other roles included Chairman of the Road Safety Council of New South Wales and President of the National Safety Council of Australia. He is commemorated by the Sir William Hudson Memorial Home for aged persons in Cooma.
Details
Chronology
- 1920
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of London
- 1920 - 1922
- Career position - Assistant Engineer, Hydro-Electric Section, Armstrong Whitworth & Co. London
- 1922 - 1924
- Career position - Assistant Engineer, railway construction, New Zealand Public Works Department and on the Mangahao hydro-electric scheme
- 1924 - 1927
- Career position - Engineer in charge of construction, Arapuni Dam, New Zealand
- 1927
- Career position - Engineer, Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board of Sydney
- 1928 - 1931
- Career position - Assistant Research Engineer, Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board, working on the construction of Nepean Dam, New South Wales
- 1931 - 1937
- Career position - Engineer in charge of construction, Gallaway Hydro-Electrical Scheme in Scotland [working for Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners (London)]
- 1937 - 1943
- Career position - Research Engineer, Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board, working on the construction of the Woronora Dam in Sydney
- 1943 - 1948
- Career position - Chief Construction Engineer, Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board
- 1948 - 1949
- Career position - Engineer-in-Chief, Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board
- 1949 - 1967
- Career position - Commissioner, Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority
- 1955
- Award - Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) - In recognition of service as Chairman of the Snowy Mountains Authority
- 1957
- Award - Australian Engineering Award
- 1958
- Award - Kernot Memorial Medal, for distinguished engineering achievement in Australia. Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1962
- Award - Honorary Member (HonMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1964
- Award - Fellow, The Royal Society, London (FRS)
- 1966
- Award - James Cook Medal, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1968
- Award - Honorary Fellow (HonFIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Honorary Members were designated Honorary Fellows on this date.]
- 1975
- Award - W D Chapman Medal, for outstanding contribution to the field of welding in Australia. Australian Welding Institute
- 1975
- Award - Order of the White Cross, Annual Award for services to Australia
- 1975 - 1978
- Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
Related entries
Archival resources
National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
Published resources
Books
- Wickham, Alan; Fitzpatrick, Mike, The ANCOLD story : 1937-1995 (Australian National Committee on Large Dams, 1998), 55 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Sparke, Eric, 'Hudson, Sir William (1896-1978), civil engineer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 510-512. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140579b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Hudson, W., 'Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric project', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 34 (6) (1962), 107-113. Details
- Paton, Thomas Angus Lyall, 'William Hudson, 27 April 1896 - 12 September 1978', Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 25 (1979), 319-35. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.1979.0011. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8012625. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/92736312. Details
- 'Hudson, William (1896-1978)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-535561. Details
Resource Sections
- 'William Hudson - Commissioner of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority', in The 1997 Australian Science Festival, 1997, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/other/asf_scientists.htm#william. Details
- 'William Hudson', in Heroes, 2000, http://www.nzedge.com/heroes/hudson.html. Details
See also
- 'Dr Keith Thomas Henry Farrer OBE MA DSc FTSE - Biographical Note', Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=648. Details
- 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_h.html. Details
- Engineers Australia ed., Wonders never cease: 100 Australian engineering achievements (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2019), 236 pp. pp.36-37. Details
- Engineers Australia ed., Anything is possible: 100 Australian engineering leaders (Barton, A.C.T.: Institution of Engineers Australia, 2019), 136 pp. 'The Father of the Snowy - Sir William Hudson' p.76. Details
- Institution of Engineers Australia. Sydney Division. Engineering Heritage Committee, The Historic Engineering Plaques of Australia (Milsons Point, New South Wales: The Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1994), 38 pp. p.27. Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, Tumut 3 Power Station, N.S.W. Details
- Lister, Ken, 'The Snowy Mountains Scheme - More than Engineering Heritage', in Eleventh National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Federation Engineering a Nation; Proceedings (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2001), pp. 245-252., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.521126347362503. Details
- Thorpe, Noel, 'Chapter 2: Water supply and sewerage' in Sydney: from settlement to city: an engineering history of Sydney, Don Fraser, ed. (Crows Nest, New South Wales: Engineers Australia, 1989), pp. 17-40. Details
Gavan McCarthy [P004098]; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023
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