Person
Shaw, Ebenezer (1865 - 1943)
- Born
- 2 August 1865
Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 13 October 1943
Camberwell, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Civil engineer
Summary
Ebenezer Shaw was appointed supervising engineer for the Victorian State Rivers and Water Supply Commission when it was formed in 1906. In 1914 he was appointed a Commissioner and retained this position until he retired in 1932. He was partly responsible for enlargement of the Hume Reservoir to 2,000,000 acre feet capacity.
Details
Associated Major Works:
* Flinders Street Railway Viaduct (contractor);
* Gladstone Meat Works, Queensland (contractor);
* Wimmera-Mallee domestic and stock water supply;
* Glenmaggie Weir, on the Macalister River;
* Maffra-Sale irrigation areas;
* Mornington Peninsula water supply reticulation.
Chronology
- 1899 - 1906
- Career position - Mines and Engineer, Water Supply Department, Victoria
- 1906 - 1914
- Career position - Supervising engineer, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Victoria
- 1914 - 1932
- Career position - Commissioner, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Victoria
- 1926
- Career position - Victorian representative on the River Murray Commission
- 1932
- Life event - Retired
Related entries
Children
Published resources
Book Sections
- McNicoll, Ronald, 'Shaw, Ebenezer (1865-1943), engineer and public servant' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), p. 584, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/shaw-ebenezer-8405. Details
Journal Articles
- Churchyard, J. N., 'Pioneers of Irrigation in Victoria, Number 11 - Ebenezer Shaw', Aqua: Official Journal of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Victoria (1958), 21-. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536946. Details
- 'Shaw, Ebenezer (1865-1943)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1467390. Details
Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 22 July 2025
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