Whitmore, Raymond Leslie (1920 - 2008)

Summary

Ray Whitmore AM BSc PhD DSc HonFIEAust CEng FIMM FIMinE MAusIMM FInstP SFInstE, was Professor of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering, University of Queensland, 1967-1985. He made notable contributions in a wide range of disciplines: in radar development; medical research into the properties of blood and the circulation system; mining and metallurgical engineering and he was a noted Queensland historian. His contributions to professional and community organisations included important roles with Engineers Australia, Engineering Heritage Australia, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Australian Coal Preparation Society, Brisbane and Ipswich City Council Heritage Committees, the Queensland Museum, and the Royal Historical Society of Queensland.

Details

Through his strong interest in history, the history of engineering and engineering heritage, Ray became a driving force in forming Engineering Heritage committees, at Division, State and National level, of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. He was chair of the first committee in Queensland from 1976, and was the Chairman of the National Committee when it was formed in 1979, and remained a corresponding member until 1995.
He was a prolific researcher and produced many books and a large number of research papers.

Chronology

1945 - 1948

Career position - Engineer, Simon-Carves Ltd, England

1948 - 1957

Career position - Research Fellow, Mining and Chemical Departments, Nottingham University, England

1951 - 1953

Career position - Research Manager, Ferodo Ltd, England

1953 - 1967

Career position - Senior Lecturer and Reader, Department of Mining Engineering, Nottingham University

1959

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Birmingham [Diss.S1.B59 W]

1968

Career event - Book Rheology of the Circulation published

1970 - 1973

Career position - Member, Australian Research Grants Committee

1974 - 1976

Career position - Dean of Engineering, University of Queensland

1979 - c. 1981

Career position - First Chairman, National Panel for Engineering Heritage, General College of Engineering, Institution of Engineers Australia

1980

Award - Overseas Award of Institution of Mining Engineers, London

1984 - c. 1986

Career position - First Chairman, National Committee on Engineering in Mining, Institution of Engineers Australia

1986 - 1990

Career position - Councillor, Royal Historical Society of Queensland

1988

Award - Honorary Fellow (Hon.FIEAust), Institution of Engineers, Australia - for conspicuous service to the profession, and for unequalled knowledge of engineering heritage in Australia

1992 - 1995

Career position - Member, Queensland Heritage Council

10 June 1994

Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for service to mining and metallurgical engineering and to engineering history, heritage and industrial archaeology.

2003

Award - Fellow, Royal Historical Society of Queensland

2005

Award - John Monash medal for Engineering Heritage, Engineers Australia.

Related entries

Published resources

Books

• Whitmore, R. L., Coal in Queensland : Federation to the twenties, 1900 to 1925 (University of Queensland Press, 1981), 185 pp, https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:207543. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., Coal in Queensland, the first fifty years : a history of early coal mining in Queensland (St. Lucia, Qld.: Queensland University Press, 1981), 185 pp, https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:205115. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., Coal in Queensland : the late nineteenth century 1875 to 1900 (St. Lucia, Qld.: University of Queensland Press, 1985), 338 pp, https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:199315. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., Queensland's early waterworks (Brisbane: Department of Natural Resources, 1997), 190 pp. Details
• Whitmore, Raymond, Hydraulic Henderson: water resources pioneer (Brisbane: Engineers Australia, 2009), 188 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Whitmore, Raymond L., 'Hornibrook, Sir Manuel Richard (1893-1970), master builder, industrialist and company director' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), pp. 497-498. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140563b.htm. Details
• Whitmore, Raymond L.; Richard, E., 'Nimmo, William Hogarth Robertson (1885-1970), Hydraulic Engineer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 15: 1940 - 1980 Kem-Pie, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 482-483. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150560b.htm. Details

Conference Papers

• Knobel, T.; Hallam, G.; Whitmore, R. L., 'A Junction with the Future: The Revitalising of Wallangarra Interchange Railway Station', in Eleventh National Conference on Engineering Heritage: Federation Engineering a Nation; Proceedings (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2001), pp. 85-92., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.520530092282240. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., 'The Evaluation of Engineering Heritage', in Engineering Conference 1980: Engineering in the 80's; Conference Papers (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1980), pp. 1-6., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.740771812088503. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., 'Recording the Engineering Heritage', in Engineering Conference 1981: Engineering in 1981 (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1981), pp. 317-321.. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.645054239200791. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., 'The Nature of the Engineering Heritage', in Conference on The Protection of the Engineering Heritage, 1982, Brisbane, 9-12 May. Preprints of Papers (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1982), pp. 1-3.. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., 'The First Sydney/Brisbane Steamship Service', in Second National Conference on Engineering Heritage ‘The Value of Engineering Heritage': Preprints of Papers (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1985), pp. 57-62.. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.724617026007644. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., 'Heritage - the Engineer's Nightmare', in Third National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1986: Practices and Responsibilities of Engineering Heritage; Preprints of Papers (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1986), pp. 1-4.. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.679674299798527. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., 'Misinterpreting Engineering Heritage', in Fifth National Conference on Engineering Heritage 1990: Interpreting Engineering Heritage; Preprints of Papers (Perth, Western Australia: Institution of Engineers, Australia, Western Australian Division, 1990), pp. 25-28.. https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.622694673690951. Details
• Whitmore, R. L.; Billing, G., 'Coke Oven Technology in the Ipswich Area', in Engineering Conference 1984: Conference Papers (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1984), pp. 1-6., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.610657774258154. Details
• Whitmore, Ray, 'Water for Ipswich', in First Australasian Conference on Engineering Heritage 1994: Old Ways in a New Land; Preprints of Papers (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1994), pp. 71-75., https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.625415087494648. Details

Conference Proceedings

• The protection of the engineering heritage: Brisbane 9-12 May 1982: preprints of papers edited by Whitmore, R. L. (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 1982), 102 pp. Details

Edited Books

• Whitmore, R. L. ed., Eminent Queensland Engineers [volume 1] (Brisbane, Queensland: The Institution of Engineers, Australia, Queensland Division, 1984), 75 pp. https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/default/files/resource-files/2017-01/eqe_vol_i.compressed.pdf. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Award to Ray Whitmore', Newsletter of Engineering Heritage Australia, 15 (Aug.2004) (2004), 6. Details
• Cole, Bruce, 'John Monash Medal 2005', Engineering Heritage Australia : newsletter of the National Committee on Engineering Heritage, the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 18 (July 2006) (2006), 8. Details
• Institution of Engineers Australia, 'Annual Report of the Colleges 1984', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 57 (1984), 44-49. 'College of Civil Engineers: formation of National Committee on Engineering in Mining, was approved. First chairman is Professor Ray Whitmore', p.45. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., 'Rescuing our Engineering Heritage', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers Australia: General Engineering, 4 (1980), 16-19. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., 'The nature of the engineering heritage', Transactions of The Institution of Engineers, Australia: General Engineering, 6 (1) (1982), 66-68. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., 'Heritage - the Engineer's Nightmare. Retiring Chairman's Address', Technical Papers (Institution of Engineers Australia, Queensland Division), 24 (1) (1983), 1-4. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., 'Mining and the professional engineer', Civil College Technical Report (1986), 1-4. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., 'The first Sydney/Brisbane steamship service', Transactions of The Institution of Engineers, Australia: Multi-Disciplinary Engineering, GE10 (1) (1986), 1-6. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., 'The first Sydney/Brisbane steamship service', Technical Papers (Institution of Engineers Australia, Queensland Division), 27 (16) (1986), 1-6. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., 'Industrial archaeology of the tower mill', Technical Papers (Institution of Engineers Australia, Queensland Division), 30 (5) (1989), 23-32. Details
• Whitmore, R. L., 'The Brisbane coal wharf', Technical Papers (Institution of Engineers Australia, Queensland Division), 31 (8) (1990), 16-20. Details
• Whitmore, R. L.; Billing, G., 'Coke oven technology in the Ipswich area', Transactions of The Institution of Engineers, Australia: Multi-Disciplinary Engineering, GE10 (1) (1986), 7-12. Details
• Whitmore, Ray, 'Queensland's industrial heritage', Heritage Australia : the journal of the Australian Council of National Trusts, 9 (4) (1990), 6-11. Details
• Whitmore, Ray, 'Old King Coal in Queensland: the Geographical Perspective', Queensland Geographical Perspective, 6 (1991), 35-46. Details
• Whitmore, Raymond, 'A tribute to old king coal: South east Queensland coal mines', Heritage Australia : the journal of the Australian Council of National Trusts, 1 (1) (1982), 46-49. Details
• Whitmore, Raymond, 'Southeast Queensland Coal Mines', Queensland Government Mining Journal (1985), 502-505. Details

Reports

• Institution of Engineers Australia, Annual Report 1988 (1989), 32 pp. 'Honorary Fellows - Council elected Emeritus Professor Raymond Whitmore, FIEAust as Honorary Fellow', p.26. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q64757580. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/111100659. Details
• 'Whitmore, R L (1920-20081220)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-543257. Details

See also

• 'Annual Report of the Colleges [1979]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 52 (4) (1980), 40-45. 'General College of Engineering - National Panel for Engineering Heritage. Prof Ray Whitmore, Chairman 1979-1980'. p.45. Details
• 'Annual Report of the Colleges [1980]', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 53 (3) (1981), 38-43. 'General College of Engineering - National Panel for Engineering Heritage - Prof Ray Whitmore elected for 2nd term as Chairman', p.43. Details
• Donovan & Associates [Donovan, Peter] ed., A mining history of Australia (Blackwood, South Australia: 1995), 335 pp. Member of study steering committee. Details