Person

Wainwright, William Edward (1873 - 1959)

Born
3 January 1873
Upper Holloway, England
Died
3 May 1959
Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Mining engineer

Summary

William Wainwright was a mine manager and engineer with Broken Hill South Ltd from 1898 to 1941. He was also involved in many organisations including Chairman of the Victorian Committee of the Standards Association of Australia and twice president of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.

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Chronology

1892
Education - Diploma in Metallurgy, South Australian School of Mines and Industries
1894
Education - Diploma in Mining, South Australian School of Mines and Industries
1895
Career position - Battery Manager, Ivanhoe Gold Mines in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
1896 - 1898
Career position - Mill-manager at Queen Margaret Gold Mine, near Kalgoorlie
1898 - 1903
Career position - Engineer, South Mine of Broken Hill South Ltd
1903 - 1918
Career position - Manager, South Mine of Broken Hill South Ltd
1918 - 1937
Career position - General Manager, Broken Hill South Ltd
1919
Career position - President, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
1921 -
Career position - Foundation Councillor (Mining and Metallurgy), Australian National Research Council
1926
Career position - Chairman of the technical committee to report on the gold-mining industry at Kalgoorlie and at the Sons of Gwalia mine, Leonora, Western Australia
1930
Career position - President, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
1930
Career position - Leader of Australian delegation to the third Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress in South Africa
1936
Award - Institute Medal, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
1937 -
Career event - Fellow, Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science (ANZAAS)
1937 - 1941
Career position - Consulting Engineer, Broken Hill South Ltd

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Books

  • Cumming, D. A.; Moxham, G. C., They built South Australia : engineers, technicians, manufacturers, contractors and their work (Adelaide: D.A. Cumming and G.C Moxham, 1986), 241 pp. p.191. Details

Book Sections

  • Fairweather, D.F., 'Wainwright, William Edward (1873-1959), mining and metallurgical engineer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), p. 348. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120388b.htm. Details

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See also

Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes

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