Kernot, Maurice Edwin (1852 - 1934)

Summary

Maurice Kernot was a railway engineer who joined the Victorian Railways in 1874 and served as Chief Engineer from 1907 to 1923. He was noted for applying the principles of technical analysis to the location and building of railways in Victoria. In his management of the labour force and the letting of contracts he effected considerable savings in the departmental budget. Over 1,600 kilometres of railway tracks were built while he was Chief Engineer. In retirement Kernot was active in the Institution of Engineers of Australia.

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Chronology

1874 - 1907

Career position - Engineer, Victorian Railways

5 Feb 1895

Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London

1907 - 1923

Career position - Chief Engineer, Victorian Railways

1916

Career position - Vice-President, Victorian Institute of Engineers

1919

Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1920

Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia

1920 - 1921

Career position - President, Melbourne Division, Institution of Engineers, Australia.

1921

Career position - President, Section H (Engineering and Architecture) Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science

1928

Award - Kernot Memorial Medal, for distinguished engineering achievement in Australia. Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne

1932

Award - Life Member, Institution of Engineers Australia

1933

Award - Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal - Career Achievement Award in Engineering, Institution of Engineers Australia

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Published resources

Book Sections

• Murray-Smith, S., 'Kernot, Wilfred Noyce (1868-1945), engineer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 573-574. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090573b.htm. Details

Conference Papers

• Ferguson, Jim, 'The Kernot engineers', in Engineering Heritage Victoria, Speakers Programme (2003).. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Abstracts of proceedings of Divisions, 1920.', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1 (1920), 151-161, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.633491999041294. 'Chairman's Address 18 April 1920 - M.E. Kernot, M.Inst.C.E.', p.154. Details
• 'Award of Prizes [Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal 1933; Warren Memorial Prize -second; Edward Noyes Prize 1931]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 5 (1933), 430. Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal, 1933 Award, to Mr Maurice Edwin Kernot, MIEAust. Details
• 'Memoirs', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8 (1936), 277-280. Maurice Edwin Kernot MIEAust, p.277. Details
• Doring, Margret and Martin, Helen, 'Catching a train from Orbost: building the Bairnsdale to Orbost railway in Eastern Victoria - 1912 to 1916', Engineering Heritage Australia magazine, 1 (5) (2014), 15-9, https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/Learned%20Society/eha%20magazine%20vol%201%20no%205%20December%202014.pdf. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, '51st Council Meeting [25th July 1932, Sydney]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 4 (1932), 323. 'Under the powers conferred upon Council by Article 76 of the Articles of Association, it was decided that Mr M E Kernot, MIEAust, of Melbourne Division, be enrolled as a Life Member of The Institution'. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Fourteenth Annual Report [1933]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 6 (1934), 121-126. 'Prizes awarded during the 1933-34 session: Peter Nicol Russell Memorial Medal [1933] to the late Mr M E Kernot, Melbourne Division', p.122. Details
• Kernot, Maurice E., 'Impressions on railway construction abroad', Commonwealth Engineer, 2 (10) (1915), 355-356. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21536683. Details
• 'Obituary. Maurice Edwin Kernot, 1852-1934.', Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/imotp.1934.15310. Details
• Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 9083, 1874', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
• 'Kernot, Maurice E (18520610-19340113)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-544345. Details

See also

• Martin, Helen, 'Bairnsdale to Orbost Railway Line', in Engineering Heritage Victoria, Speakers Programme (2015)., https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/Event/ehv-guest-speaker-program-bairnsdale-orbost-railway-line. Details