McIlwraith, Thomas (1835 - 1900)

Summary

(Sir) Thomas McIlwraith provided some of the capital for the Strathleven experiment in shipping refrigerated meat and butter to Britain (in 1879-1880). The ship was chartered by his brother Andrew of McIlwraith McEacharn Ltd.

Published resources

Book Sections

• Dignan, Don, 'McIlwraith, Sir Thomas (1835-1900), premier and capitalist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), pp. 161-164. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcilwraith-sir-thomas-4099. Details

Conference Papers

• Waterson, Duncan B., 'The transformation of Engineering Entrepreneur to Multi-faceted Specialist: From Nation-building as depicted by the career of the Scots-Queensland Sir Thomas McIlwraith (1835-1900) to Global technical participant', in Third Australasian Engineering Heritage Conference. Dunedin 2009 (Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand, ), pp. 337-342., https://www.engineeringnz.org/documents/1274/Proceedings_of_the_Third_Australasian_Conference_on_Engineering_Heritage_Dunedin_2009.pdf. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3525408. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/95116811. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/299770626. Details
• 'McIlwraith, Thomas (1835-1900)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1454112. 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_m.html. Details
• Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details