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.
Details
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
Related entries
Published resources
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
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21539296. Details
- 'Wainwright, William Edward (1873-1959)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1470987. Details
Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 11 September 2024