Person
Hunt, Philip Charles Holmes (1874 - 1941)
- Born
- 19 July 1874
Aston, Warwickshire, England - Died
- 6 May 1941
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Industrial chemist
Summary
Holmes Hunt came to Australia in 1903 and worked as Assistant Engineer and later Chief engineer of the Metropolitan Gas Company, Melbourne. He was Chairman of the local Board of the Colonial Gas Association Ltd from 1914 and Managing Director from 1919. He was the most prominent person in the gas industry in Australia for many years.
Details
Born Birmingham, England, 19 July 1874. Died 1941. Educated Worcestershire & Mason University (Later Birmingham University). Manager, Adderley Street Gasworks, Birmingham 1900-03, Assistant Engineer, Metropolitan Gas Company, Melbourne 1903-05, Acting Engineer 1906, Engineer 1907-13, Director, Crankless Engines Ltd, Johns & Waygood Ltd, Wallaroo Mt Lyell Fertilisers Ltd, South Australia, Commonwealth Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd, Consulting Engineer to Australian Gas Light Company, Sydney, South Australian Gas Company, City of Newcastle Gas & Coke Company and other companies, chairman, Mr Lyell Mining & Railway Company Ltd, Chairman, Colonial Gas Association Ltd, deputy chairman, Metropolitan Gas Company. Founder and first President, Australian Gas Institution, Chairman, Gas Companies Association of Australia.
Chronology
- 1896
- Career event - Associate, Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland
- c. 1902
- Career event - Member, Institution of Gas Engineers, London
- 1902 - 1914
- Career position - Chief engineer, Metropolitan Gas Company, Melbourne
- 7 Mar 1911
- Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
- 1920
- Career event - Fellow, Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland
- 1922 - 1941
- Career position - Director, Metropolitan Gas Company, Melbourne
- 1940 - 1941
- Career position - Director of Substitute Fuels, Common
Related entries
Archival resources
The University of Melbourne Archives
Published resources
Book Sections
- Richmond, Merle, 'Hunt, Philip Charles Holmes (1874-1941), gas engineer and company director' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 406-407. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hunt-philip-charles-holmes-6769. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537134. Details
- Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 13385, 1911', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
- 'Hunt, Philip Charles Holmes (1874-1941)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469913. Details
Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes
Created: 4 September 1997, Last modified: 23 July 2025