Person

Walsh, Henry Deane (1853 - 1921)

Born
16 September 1853
Dublin, Ireland
Died
29 August 1921
Roseville, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Engineer

Summary

Henry Walsh was engineer-in-chief for the Sydney Harbour Trust on its establishment in 1901 until his retirement in 1919, being commissioner of the trust from 1913. Previously he had been district engineer for public works programmes from Lake Macquarie to the Queensland border. He is commemorated by Walsh Island in Newcastle Harbour and Walsh Bay on Sydney's waterfront.

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Chronology

1874
Education - Educated at Trinity College, Dublin (BA, BAI [Engineering]
1875 - 1876
Career position - Engineering works in England
1876 - 1877
Career position - Engineer, Great Southern and Western Railway Co., Ireland
1878 - 1901
Career position - Engineer, Department of Public Works, New South Wales
1879 - 1891
Career position - Resident Engineer, Newcastle, New South Wales
6 Feb 1883
Career event - Associate Member (AssocMInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
5 Nov 1889
Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
1891 - 1896
Career position - Supervising Engineer (to 1895), then District Engineer in Newcastle
1896 - 1901
Career position - President, Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board
1901 - 1913
Career position - Engineer-in-Chief, Sydney Harbour Trust
1909
Career position - President, Royal Society of New South Wales
1913 - 1919
Career position - Commissioner, Sydney Harbour Trust

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Published resources

Books

  • Rowe, Susan, Henry Deane Walsh: the Australian years 1879 to 1928 [sic]: his family, homes, his work (Epping, N.S.W.: Susan Rowe, 2016), 641 pp. Details

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Resources

See also

  • Rich, Norman, 'Chapter 7: Harbour works' in Sydney: from settlement to city: an engineering history of Sydney, Don Fraser, ed. (Crows Nest, New South Wales: Engineers Australia, 1989), pp. 151-168. Details
  • Spooner, E. S. (Hon.), 'History and Development of Port Kembla', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 10 (1938), 279-293. [Walsh designed Port Kembla Harbour 1912.]. Details

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