Person
Hoadley, Charles Archibald Brookes (1887 - 1947)
CBE
- Born
- 1 March 1887
Burwood, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 27 February 1947
Footscray, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Antarctic explorer, Geologist and Educator
Summary
Charles Hoadley was a geologist who joined the Australasian Antarctic Expedition in 1911. As a member of the Western Base party (Queen Mary Land) he participated in a 480 km trip into Kaiser Wilhelm II Land, exploring Haswell Island and Gaussberg, and collecting specimens. Hoadley left Antarctica with most Expedition members in February 1913. After returning from Antarctica he was for several years Senior Lecturer in Engineering at the Ballarat School of Mines and Industry. From 1916 to 1947 he was Principal of the Footscray Technical School. He was a committed advocate for technical education. Hoadley also made a significant contribution to the scouting movement in Victoria. Cape Hoadley in Eastern Antarctica is named in his honour.
Details
Chronology
- 1911
- Education - Bachelor of Mining Engineering (BME), University of Melbourne
- 1911 - February 1913
- Career position - Geologist, Western Base, Australasian Antarctic Exploration Expedition
- 1913
- Award - Caroline Kay Scholarship and Government Research Scholarship in geology
- 1913
- Education - Master of Science (MSc), University of Melbourne
- 1914 - 1916
- Career position - Senior Lecturer in Engineering at the School of Mines and Industry in Ballarat, Victoria
- 1915
- Award - Polar Medal (Silver)
- 1916 - 1947
- Career position - Principal of the Footscray Technical School (later Footscray Institute of Technology)
- 1919
- Career position - Joined the Boy Scout Association
- 1928 - 1937
- Career position - Chief Commissioner of the Victorian Boy Scout Association
- 1929
- Career position - Commissioner in charge of the Australian Contingent to the 21st Birthday Jamboree in England
- 1931
- Award - Order of the Silver Wolf
- 1936
- Award - Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Related entries
Parent
Published resources
Books
- Hoadley, Jack A., Antarctica to Footscray: Arch Hoadley, a Man of Inspiration and Courage (Melbourne: Sid Harta Publications, 2010), 460 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Lack, John, 'Hoadley, Charles Archibald Brookes (1887-1947), explorer, educationalist and scout leader' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 313-314. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090320b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, '150 Years, 150 Stories: Charles Archibald Brookes Hoadley', Uni News, 12 (6) (2003), 4. Details
- Quilty, Patrick G., 'Early Australian Earth Scientists in the Antarctic, Part 3: the Foundation Laid - Mawson's Men', TAG: Geological Society of Australia Newsletter, 162 (2012), 19-24. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1064857. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/254898462. Details
- 'Hoadley, Charles Archibald Brookes (1887-1947)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469582. Details
Reviews
- Hoadley, Jack A., Antarctica to Footscray: Arch Hoadley, a Man of Inspiration and Courage (2010)
Hince, Bernadette, Historical Records of Australian Science, 22 (2), (2011), 311-2, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR11013. Details
See also
- Flesch, Juliet and McPhee, Peter, 150 years, 150 stories: brief biographies of one hundred and fifty remarkable people associated with the University of Melbourne (Melbourne: Department of History, University of Melbourne, 2003), 168 pp. Details
- Jensen, David, Mawson's remarkable men: the personal stories of the epic 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expediton (Sydeny: Allen and Unwin, 2015), 183 pp. Details
Ailie Smith and Helen Cohn
Created: 28 November 2003, Last modified: 24 March 2022