Person
Woodward, Henry Page (1858 - 1917)
- Born
- 16 May 1858
Norwich, England - Died
- 8 February 1917
West Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Geologist
Summary
Henry Woodward was government geologist for Western Australia 1888-1895, a government consultant for some years and finally assistant government geologist from April 1905. His annual report for 1890, republished as "Mining handbook to the colony of Western Australia" (1894), was essential reading for miners and prospectors. He persuaded the government to sink its first artesian bore at Guildford in 1894. Woodward was also a local partner and manager of mining and consulting business on the eastern goldfields for Bewick, Moreing & Co. of London and Coolgardie. He worked as a mining engineer in his own business from 1897.
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Chronology
- 1883 - 1886
- Career position - Geological Survey of England and Wales
- 1887
- Career position - Royal College of Science
- 1888 - 1895
- Career position - Government Geologist for Western Australia
- 1896
- Career position - President, Western Australian Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers
- 1897 -
- Career position - Private mining engineer practise
- 1905
- Career position - Assistant Government Geologist for Western Australia
Published resources
Books
- Glover, John; with Bevan, Jenny, The Forgotten Explorers: Pioneer geologists of Western Australia, 1826-1926 (Victoria Park, W.A.: Hesperian Press, 2010), 246 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Crawford, Ian M., 'Woodward, Henry Page (1858-1917), geologist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 568-569. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120637b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Woodward, H., 'Eminent Living Geologists', Geological Magazine, 6 (1899). Details
- Zylstra, Baige, '"Those riches of which we are so proud": Western Australian geological collecting for international and intercolonial exhibitions 1850 - 1890', Studies in Western Australian history, 35 (2020), 59-74. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5726646. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/274336238. Details
- 'Woodward, Henry Page (1858-1917)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469288. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 2 March 2018