Person
Hunt, Ralph Alec (1891 - 1980)
- Born
- 3 March 1891
Brighton, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 26 April 1980
Mont Albert, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Administrator, Civil engineer and Public servant
Summary
From the ADB entry: "Hunt married Parisian-born Henriette Kaczka (d.1945) at the registry office, Melbourne, on 24 January 1920. That year he began his career with the State Electricity Commission. Although his early engineering posts were relatively minor, he was one of the pioneers under Sir John Monash who developed the generation of electricity from brown coal. In 1934 Hunt became an administrator, rising in 1938 to general superintendent, Yallourn. On 31 October 1949 at St Paul's Anglican Church, Warragul, he married Betty May Budge, a 27-year-old trained nurse."
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Langmore, Diane, 'Hunt, Ralph Alec (1891-1980), engineer and administrator' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), p. 522. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hunt-ralph-alec-10576. Details
Journal Articles
- Hunt, R. A., 'Profiles from the past: Sir John Monash', The Chartered Engineer Victoria, 8 (6) (1964), 5. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21537202. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/313296736. Details
- 'Hunt, Ralph Alec (1891-19801231)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469158. Details
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Created: 6 April 2016, Last modified: 20 January 2025