Person
McCormack, William Thomas Bartholomew (1879 - 1938)
- Born
- 1 January 1879
Heathcote, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 23 January 1938
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Civil engineer and Public servant
Summary
William McCormack was a member, and later Chairman of the Victorian Country Roads Board, from its commencement in 1913 until his death in 1938. By 1920, in conjunction with the inaugural Chairman William Calder, was responsible for survey, design and supervision of road construction, bridges on 6000 miles of main roads and 10,000 miles of subsidiary roads.
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Chronology
- 1893 - 1896
- Education - Bendigo School of Mines and Survey
- 1897 - 1901
- Career position - Pupilage under agreement, John Kelly CE and Licensed Surveyor
- 1902 - 1907
- Career position - Engineer, Shire of Mirboo, Victoria
- 1907
- Career event - Granted Certificate of Qualification as Engineer (CE), Local Government Act 1906 NSW [Certificate No.12]
- 1907 - 1908
- Career position - Engineer, Lockhart Shire, NSW
- 1908
- Career position - Engineer, Korumburra Shire, Victoria
- 1909 - 1913
- Career position - First Assistant Engineer, Roads Bridges and Harbours Branch, Public Works Department, Victoria
- c. 1913
- Career position - Honorary Lecturer, Engineering, University of Melbourne
- 1913 - 1928
- Career position - Member, Country Roads Board Commission, Victoria
- 1916 - 1917
- Military service - Major, 10th Field Company, Engineers, Australian Military Forces
- 1917 - 1918
- Military service - Acting Commanding Royal Engineer, 3rd Division. [Under Major General Sir John Monash]
- 1918
- Award - Croix de Guerre, Republic of France
- 1919
- Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1919 - 1922
- Career position - Supervising Engineer, Great Ocean Road, Country Roads Board, Victoria
- 1920
- Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 14 Dec 1920
- Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
- 1924
- Career position - Acting Chairman, Country Roads Board, Victoria
- 1928 - 1938
- Career position - Chairman, Country Roads Board, Victoria
Related entries
Published resources
Book Sections
- Langmore, Diane, 'McCormack, William Thomas Bartholomew (1879-1938), civil engineer and public servant' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 10: 1891 - 1939 Lat-Ner, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 235-236. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mccormack-william-thomas-bartholomew-7321. Details
Gazette Articles
- Lee, Charles A., 'Certicates under the Local Government Act 1906', New South Wales Government Gazette (1908), 1174-1176, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226590009. Granted Certificate of Qualification as Engineer [No.12]. Details
Journal Articles
- 'Memoirs', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 11 (12) (1939), 440-441. Major William Thomas Bartholomew McCormck, C. de G., MIEAust. p.440. Details
- Loder, L. F.; Tregoning, A. C.; McCormack, W. T. B.; Parkhurst, R. W.; Broadhead, C. F.; Short, J. G. W. C., 'Low cost road construction in Victoria (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 3 (11) (1931), 396-397. Details
- McCormack, W. T. B.; and Fricke, F. W., 'Country roads and bridges', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 6 (10) (1934), 361-363, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KYVyeykNbvfPHJ1MvbMO5A583n_porFx/view. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21539642. Details
- Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 16257, 1920', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
- 'McCormack, William Thomas Bartholomew (1879-19381231)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1466772. Details
Ailie Smith; Ken McInnes
Created: 6 April 2016, Last modified: 20 February 2025