Person
Somerset, Henry Beaufort (1906 - 1995)
Kt CBE FTSE
- Born
- 21 May 1906
Mount Morgan, Queensland, Australia - Died
- 15 September 1995
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Industrial chemist, University Chancellor and Company director
Summary
Sir Henry Somerset was Director of Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd from 1945 to 1981. He was also a director and chairman of many other companies. He was Chancellor of the University of Tasmania 1964 - 1972
Details
Chronology
- 1920 - 1933
- Career position - Chemist, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd, Billingham, United Kingdom
- 1927
- Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Melbourne
- 1928
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
- 1933 - 1936
- Career position - Chemist at ICIANZ (Imperial Chemical Industries of Australia and New Zealand)
- 1937 - 1945
- Career position - Chemist with Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd
- 1945 - 1981
- Career position - Director of Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd
- 1947 - 1981
- Career position - Director of Goliath Cement Holdings Ltd
- 1949 - 1982
- Career position - Director of Tioxide Australia Pty Ltd
- 1953 - 1976
- Career position - Chairman of Tioxide Australia Pty Ltd
- 1953 - 1978
- Career position - Director of EZ Industries Ltd
- 1957 - 1982
- Career position - Director of Humes Ltd
- 1958
- Career position - President, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
- 1961 - 1978
- Career position - Director of Australian Fertilizers Ltd
- 1961 - 1981
- Career position - Chairman of Humes Ltd
- 10 June 1961
- Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) - Managing Director of Australian Paper Mills
- 1963 - 1971
- Career position - Director, Imperial Chemical Industry of Australia and New Zealand
- 1964 - 1972
- Career position - Chancellor of the University of Tasmania
- 1965 - 1973
- Career position - Member of the Executive of CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
- 1966
- Career position - President, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
- 11 June 1966
- Award - Knight Bachelor (Kt) - Chancellor of the University of Tasmania
- 1967 - 1982
- Career position - Chairman of Goliath Cement Holdings Ltd
- 1968 - 1977
- Career position - Trustee of the National Museum of Victoria
- 1970 - 1982
- Career position - Director of NKS (Holdings) Ltd
- 1970 - 1983
- Career position - Inaugural Chairman, Australian Mineral Foundation
- 1971 - 1976
- Career position - Director of ICI Australia Ltd
- 1971 - 1981
- Career position - Director of Perpetual Executors and Trustees Association of Australia Ltd
- 1973 - 1981
- Career position - Chairman of Perpetual Executors and Trustees Association of Australia Ltd
- 1975 - 1987
- Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
- 1976
- Award - Leighton Memorial Medal, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
- 1977 - 1982
- Career position - Chairman, Central Norseman Gold Corporation Ltd
- 1987
- Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Foundation Fellow AATS 1975]
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Carolan, Jane Mayo, No run-of-the-mill : a biography of Henry Beaufort Somerset (Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2006), 337 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Carolan, Jane, 'Somerset, Sir Henry Beaufort (Harry) (1906-1995), industrial chemist, company executive, and director' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 19: 1991 - 1995 A-Z, Melanie Nolan, ed. (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2021), pp. 776-777, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/somerset-sir-henry-beaufort-harry-22010. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q64792256. Details
- 'Somerset, Henry Beaufort (19060521-19950915)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473530. Details
Resource Sections
- Carolan, Jane, 'Somerset, Sir Henry Beaufort (Harry) (1906 - 1995) ,', in Australian dictionary of biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra, 2019, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/somerset-sir-henry-beaufort-harry-22010. Details
See also
- Who's who in Australia 1995 (Melbourne: Information Australia Group, 1995), 1622 pp. Details
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Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 9 November 2022