Person
Hoskins, Charles Henry (1851 - 1926)
- Born
- 26 March 1851
London, Middlesex, England - Died
- 14 February 1926
Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
Charles Hoskins, with his brother George Hoskins,were successful iron and steel manufacturers at Lithgow in New South Wales, from 1876 until 1924. They took over William Sandford's ironworks in 1907, and acquired a blast furnace, iron and steel works, colliery and iron ore leases at Cadia and Carcoar, and land at Lithow, Eskroy Park and Bowenfels.
His son Cecil Harold Hoskins became chairman from 1925 and built an integrated steelworks at Port Kembla and formed a new company, Australian Iron and Steel Limited.
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Parsons, George, 'Hoskins, Charles Henry (1851-1926) and Sir Cecil Harold (1889-1971), iron and steel manufacturers' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 371-373. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090372b.htm. Details
See also
- Engineers Australia ed., Wonders never cease: 100 Australian engineering achievements (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Institution of Engineers, Australia, 2019), 236 pp. pp.138-139. Details
Ken McInnes
Created: 25 February 2020, Last modified: 3 March 2020