Person

Matheson, James Adam Louis (Louis) (1912 - 2002)

KBE CMG FTSE HonFIEAust

Born
11 February 1912
Yorkshire, England
Died
27 March 2002
Australia
Occupation
Vice-Chancellor and Civil engineer

Summary

Sir Louis Matheson was the first Vice-chancellor of Monash University, Victoria, 1960-1976. The Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University is named in his honour.

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Chronology

1933 - 1938
Career position - Civil Engineer
1938 - 1946
Career position - Lecturer, Birmingham University, UK
1944
Award - Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
1946 - 1950
Career position - Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Melbourne
1950 - 1959
Career position - Beyer Professor of Engineering, Manchester University, UK
1959
Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1960
Life event - Settled in Australia
1960 - 1976
Career position - Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, Victoria
1961 - 1963
Career position - Member of the Ramsay Committee on the Development of Tertiary Education in Victoria
1962 - 1963
Career position - Member of the Royal Commission into the Failure of Kings Bridge
1962 - 1967
Career position - Member of the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Advisory Council
1964 - 1983
Career position - Trustee of the Science Museum of Victoria
1965 - 1968
Career position - Member of the Interim Council, University of Papua New Guinea
1965 - 1981
Career position - Member of the Council of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
1966 - 1972
Career position - Chairman, Council of Papua New Guinea University of Technology
1967 - 1968
Career position - Chairman, Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee (AVCC)
1967 - 1968
Career position - Chairman, Association of Commonwealth Universities
1968
Career event - Fellow (FIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Members were designated Fellows on this date.]
1969 - 1973
Career position - President, Council of the Science Museum of Victoria
1970
Award - Kernot Memorial Medal, for distinguished engineering achievement in Australia. Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne
1972
Award - Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) - Vice Chancellor, Monash University
1973 - 1975
Career position - Chancellor of Papua New Guinea University of Technology
1975
Award - Doctor of Laws (LLD), honoris causa, University of Melbourne
1975
Career position - President, Institution of Engineers, Australia
1975
Career position - Member of the Post-Secondary Education Committee Victoria
1975 - 1976
Career position - Chairman, Australian Science and Technology Council
1975 - 1987
Award - Foundation Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences (FTS)
1976
Award - Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) - For services to education and to Victoria
1976
Award - Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal - Career Achievement Award in Engineering. Institution of Engineers Australia
1977
Career position - Chairman, Newport Review Panel
1977 - 1978
Career position - Member of the Australian Science and Technology Council
1977 - 1979
Career position - Director of the Nauru Phosphate Corporation
1978 - 1983
Career position - Chairman, Planning and Finance Committee of the Schools Commission in Victoria
1981
Award - Honorary Fellow (HonFIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1987
Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) [Foundation Fellow AATS 1975]

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Archival resources

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

  • Biographical cuttings on James Adam Louis Matheson, former Vice-Chancellor of Monash University, Cuttings files BIOG; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Matheson, Louis, Still learning: Louis Matheson (South Melbourne: Macmillan, 1980), 180 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • 'Annual Conference : Institution's highest award to Sir Louis Matheson [Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal : 1976 Award]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 49 (11) (1977), 28. Details
  • Smyth, Mike, 'Honorary Fellows : Improve contact with unions', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 53 (3) (1981), 15. Details

Newspaper Articles

  • Marginson, Simon, 'Obituary: Sir James Adam Louis Matheson, KBE, MBE, CMG, Founding Vice-Chancellor of Monash University', The Age (2002). Details

Reports

  • Institution of Engineers Australia, Annual Report 1980 [Sixty-first Annual Report] (1981), 16 pp. 'Institution Honours - Sir Louis Matheson, KBE CMG FIEAust elected Honorary Fellow during the current Council year', p.10. Details

Resources

See also

Ailie Smith; Ken McInnes

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