Payne, Henry (1871 - 1945)

Summary

Henry Payne, MInstCE MIMechE MIEAust, was Professor of Engineering at University of Melbourne 1910-1932. He was active in rebuilding and re-equipping the school and in 1913 succeeded in having his courses recognised by the English Institutions.

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Chronology

1888 - 1890

Education - Finsbury Technical College, Leonard Street, London

1890 - 1895

Career position - Employed at Merryweather and Sons Ltd, Greenwich [Drawing Office; In-charge fitting and erecting department; experimental and electrical works]

1896 - 1898

Career position - Assistant to Oscar Guttmann, Consulting Civil Engineer [design and supervising the erection of manufacturers plant]

1898 -

Career position - Evening teacher, Goldsmith's Institute, New Cross [Teaching electrical engineering]

1898 - 1903

Career position - Assistant to Prof. T Hudson Beare, University College, London [Instructor in mechanical drawing and machine design]

26 Jan 1900

Career event - Associate Member (AMIMechE), Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London

4 Dec 1900

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

1903 -

Career event - Member, South African Philosophical Society

1903 - 1909

Career position - Professor of Engineering, Lecturer, South African College, Cape Town, Cape Colony

15 Sep 1903

Career event - Member (MIMechE), Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London

1904 -

Career event - Member, Cape Society of Civil Engineers

1904

Career event - First President, South African College Engineering Society

1906 -

Career event - Member, South African Association for the Advancement of Science

1906 - 1909

Career position - Chair of Civil Engineering, South African College, Cape Town, Cape Colony

1909

Life event - Migrated to Australia from South Africa, to be Professor of Engineering, University of Melbourne

1909

Career event - Elected President for 1910, Cape Society of Civil Engineers [But resigned as he was leaving the colony]

1909 - 1932

Career position - Professor of Engineering, University of Melbourne [succeeded by Wilfrid Kernot]

6 Apr 1909

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

1910

Career position - President, Melbourne University Engineering Society

1910 - c. 1916

Career event - Member, Victorian Institute of Engineers

1913 - 1945

Award - Life member, South African Society of Civil Engineers

1914

Career position - President, Victorian Institute of Engineers

1914

Career position - Local Secretary for Melbourne, Section G (Engineering), British Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting

1919

Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1920

Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1924 - 1925

Career position - Chairman, Victoria local committee, Institution of Civil Engineers, London

1926 - 1931

Career position - Chairman, Air Accident Investigations Committee, Commonwealth of Australia

1928 - 1929

Career position - Chairman, Melbourne Division, Institution of Engineers, Australia

1930

Award - Honorary Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society

1931

Life event - Retired

1932

Award - Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne

Related entries

Published resources

Book Sections

• Moorhouse, C. E., 'Payne, Henry (1871-1945), engineer and educationist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 11: 1891 - 1939 Nes-Smi, Geoffrey Serle, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 169-170, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/payne-henry-7989. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Professor Payne [Photographic portrait]', The Varsity Engineer, 2 (1910), Frontispiece, https://hdl.handle.net/11343/91416. Details
• 'Professor Payne, MInstCE MInstMechE', The Varsity Engineer, 2 (1910), 7-8, https://hdl.handle.net/11343/91412. Details
• 'Abstracts of proceedings of Divisions, 1920.', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1 (1920), 151-161, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.628256134117739. 'Lecture 21 Jul 1920 - "James Watt," Prof. H. Payne, MlnstCE' , p.154. Details
• Payne, H., 'Forward - by the Chairman of the Melboure Division of the Institution', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1 (1) (1929), 5-6. Details
• Payne, H., 'Chairman's Address [Melbourne Division]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1 (7) (1929), 280-282. Details
• Payne, Henry, 'A triangular computation sheet', Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Surveyors, 6 (1910-1919), 1-8. Details
• Payne, Henry, 'Notes on a new lecture theatre - Melbourne University (Paper & Discussion)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. XIII (1913), 134-139, 143-144. https://hdl.handle.net/11343/24548. Details
• Payne, Henry, 'Note on wind pressure (Paper & Discussion)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. XIII (1913), 140-142. https://hdl.handle.net/11343/24549. Details
• Payne, Henry, 'Insulator for cold storage', Commonwealth Engineer, 1 (3) (1913), 97-99. Details
• Payne, Henry, 'Notes on insulation for cold storage (Paper & Discussion)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. XIV (1914), 65-73, 129-132. https://hdl.handle.net/11343/24565. Details
• Payne, Henry, 'The influence line (Paper & Discussion)', Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers vol. XVI (1917), 67-82, 136-137. https://hdl.handle.net/11343/24590. Details
• Payne, Henry, 'The record of our men', The Varsity Engineer (1919), 7-12, https://hdl.handle.net/11343/91314. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q17627005. Details
• 'Payne, Prof Henry (engineering)', S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science, 2002, https://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=2139. Details
• 'Obituary. Professor Henry Payne, 1871-1945.', Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/ijoti.1945.13939. Details
• Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 10477, 1900', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, 'Proposal 1903, register', Mechanical Engineer Records, 1847-1938, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3149/. Details
• 'Payne, Henry (1871-1945)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469468. Details