Coode, John (1816 - 1892)

Summary

(Sir) John Coode was a British engineer who visited Australia on a number of occasions to make recommendations on developing ports from Fremantle round the southern and eastern coasts to the Gulf of Carpentaria. His first visit was to report to the Melbourne Harbor Trust. His proposed river improvement and the dock site locations were the basis on which the modern Port of Melbourne has been developed.

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Chronology

6 Mar 1849

Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London

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Published resources

Books

• Cumming, D. A., Some Public Works Engineers in Victoria in the Nineteenth Century (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 1985), 59 pp. pp.7-8. Details

Book Sections

• Crawford, D.R., 'Coode, Sir John (1816-1892), civil engineer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 3: 1851 - 1890 A-C, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1969), pp. 447-448. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/coode-sir-john-3250. Details

Edited Books

• Bailey, M. R.; Chrimes, M. M.; Cox, R. C.; Cross-Rudkin, P. S. M.; Hurst, B. L.; McWilliam, R. C.; Rennison, R. W.; Ruddock, E. C.; Sutherland, R. J. M.; Swailes, T. ed., Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2: 1830-1890 (London, United Kingdom: Thomas Telford Publishing, 2008), 907 pp. 'Coode, Sir John, KCMG', pp.191-195. Details
• Cumming, D. A.; Moxham, G. C. ed., They built South Australia : engineers, technicians, manufacturers, contractors and their work (Adelaide: D.A. Cumming and G.C Moxham, 1986), 241 pp. "Coode, Sir John. MICE (1816-1892)" p.44. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6226989. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/121872370. Details
• 'Obituary. Sir John Coode, K.C.M.G., 1816-1892. (President 1889-1891).', Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/imotp.1893.20453. Details
• Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 952, 1849', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
• 'Coode, John (1816-1892)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1166356. 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, https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/2025-08/EA1_Wonders%20never%20cease.pdf. "Returning to port", pp.94-5. Details