Person
Chaffey, William Benjamin (1856 - 1926)
- Born
- 21 October 1856
Brockville, Ontario, Canada - Died
- 4 June 1926
Mildura, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Irrigation expert
Summary
William Chaffey established irrigation companies in both Mildura and Renmark with his brother, George, in 1887. The company, Chaffey Brothers Ltd, went into liquidation in 1894. He remained in Mildura, establishing an orchard and the Mildura (later Mildara) Winery Pty Ltd.
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Westcott, Peter, 'Chaffey, George (1848-1932), irrigation pioneer, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur, and Chaffey, William Benjamin (1856-1926), agriculturist and irrigation planner' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1979), pp. 599-601. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A070609b.htm. Details
Conference Papers
- Peake, Owen; and Venus, Richard, 'Chaffey brothers irrigation works in Australia', in 19th Australasian engineering heritage conference: putting water to work: steam power, river navigation and water supply edited by Engineers Australia and Engineering Heritage Australia (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineering Heritage Australia, 2017), pp. 401-430., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.385229438798747. Details
Journal Articles
- Churchyard, J. N., 'Pioneers of Irrigation in Victoria, Number 5. The Chaffey Brothers. Engineer and Horticulturist', Aqua: Official Journal of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Victoria (1957), 110-113. Details
- Miller, Glenn, 'The Chaffey Brothers: Irrigation Pioneers', Australian Heritage, 2010 (Autumn) (2010), 57-63. Details
- Peake, Owen; Venus, Richard, 'Chaffey Brothers Irrigation Works in Australia', Australasian Journal of Water Resources, 23 (2, October 2019) (2019), 116-128, https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2019.1606475. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8006669. Details
- 'Chaffey, William Benjamin (1856-1926)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469306. Details
See also
- Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_c.html. Details
- Engineers Australia ed., Wonders never cease: 100 Australian engineering achievements (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2019), 236 pp. pp.144-145. Details
- McCann, Joy; Churchward, Matthew, Victorian steampower : an illustrated social history (Melbourne, Vic.: Victoria Press, 1994), 179 pp. pp.15,68-69,70. Details
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
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Created: 25 May 2001, Last modified: 9 March 2018
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