Person

Zeal, William Austin (1830 - 1912)

KCMG

Born
5 December 1830
Westbury, Wiltshire, England
Died
11 March 1912
Toorak, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Businessman, Civil engineer and Politician

Details

Chronology

1845 - 1851
Career position - Articled to Thomas Whitaker, County Surveyor for Devon and City Surveyor For Exeter, England
1853 - 1854
Career position - Resident engineer, Mount Alexander and Murray River Railway Company, Victoria
1854 - 1859
Career position - District engineer, Railway Department, Government of Victoria
1859 - 1865
Career position - Chief engineer, Cornish & Bruce, contractors for the Melbourne to Sandhurst Railway line, length 100 miles
1864 - 1865
Career position - Elected to Legislative Assembly, Victoria
1865 - 1887
Career position - Consulting engineer, in general practice, Melbourne [Consulting engineer, Deniliquin and Moama Railway NSW]
1871 - 1874
Career event - Elected to Legislative Assembly, Victoria
1879 - 1882
Career position - City Councillor, Prahran
1882 - 1901
Career position - Elected to Legislative Council, Victoria
1886
Career position - Chairman, Royal Commission on Railways and Public Works, Tasmania
24 May 1887
Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
1892
Career position - Minister, Postmaster-general, Victoria
1892 - 1901
Career position - President, Legislative Council, Victoria
1895
Award - Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
1897 - 1911
Career position - Trustee, Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria
1901 - 1907
Career position - Senator, Commonwealth Parliament

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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. p.33. Details
  • Harper, Brian C. S., Engineering challenges in nineteenth century Victoria (Port Melbourne: the author, 2016), 256 pp. Book section: 'The Melbourne, Mount Alexander and Murray River Railway' pp.18, 21, 23. Details

Book Sections

  • Browne, Geoff, 'Zeal, Sir William Austin (1830-1912), engineer, businessman and politician' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 605-606. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120679b.htm. Details

Resources

See also

  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
  • Smith, James, ed., The Cyclopedia of Victoria: an historical and commercial review: descriptive and biographical, facts, figures and illustrations: an epitome of progress (Melbourne: Cyclopedia Co, 1903-1905), vol.1: 618 pp, vol.2: 563 pp, vol.3: 643 pp. 'Sir William Austin Zeal' Vol.1 p.152-3. Details

Ailie Smith; Ken McInnes

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