Person
Smeaton, Stirling (1860 - 1909)
- Born
- 30 October 1860
Norwood, South Australia, Australia - Died
- 12 March 1909
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Civil engineer and Naturalist
Summary
Stirling Smeaton, having graduated in Arts from the University of Adelaide, worked for the South Australian Railways for seven years. In his subsequent career he was employed on railway contracts in South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia. He later became a surveyor and draughtsman for the South Australian public service. In the late 1890s Smeaton was Chairman of the Field Naturalists' Section of the Royal Society of South Australia.
His engineer, polymath father, Thomas Drury Smeaton, was the founder of the Adelaide Philosophical Society, the forerunner of the Royal Society of South Australia.
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Chronology
- 1880
- Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Adelaide [One of four students awarded the BA in 1880, the second cohort of BA graduates at the University]
- 1880 - 1882
- Career position - Draftsman, Engineer-in-Chief's Office, South Australian Railways
- 1882
- Career position - Assistant Surveyor, South Australian Railways [Mt Barker to Strathalbyn line]
- 1882 - 1883
- Career position - Draftsman, Engineer-in-Chief's Office, South Australian Railways [Hills Railway]
- 1883 - 1887
- Career position - Assistant engineer construction, South Australian Railways [Nairne to Victorian border, Adelaide to Melbourne line]
- 1887 - 1888
- Career position - Resident engineer construction, Silverton Co. Railway, New South Wales
- 1889 - 1891
- Career position - Contractor's engineer, Ararat to Avoca railway line, Victoria [A Baxter contractor]
- 1892
- Career position - Draftsman, Engineer-in-Chief's Office, South Australian Railways
- 5 Dec 1893
- Career event - Associate Member (AssocMInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
- 1894 - 1896
- Career position - Contractor, Eastern railway deviation, Western Australia [Contract under Stirling Smeaton and Hedges]
- 1897 - c. 1899
- Career position - Superintending engineer, English Ore-reduction and Tramway Company, Norseman, Western Australia
- c. 1900 - c. 1908
- Career position - Engineer, Engineer-in-Chief's Office, South Australian Railways
- c. 1900 - 1909
- Career event - Member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Smeaton, S., 'Parabolagraph: An instrument for drawing parabolic curves', Report of the eleventh meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 11 (1907), 650, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14540336. Details
Newspaper Articles
- Anon, 'Obituaries of the week [Mr Stirling Smeaton BA AMICE]', Observer (Adelaide, SA) (1909), 38, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article164676622. Details
Resources
- 'Obituary: Stirling Smeaton, 1860-1909', Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/imotp.1910.16939. Details
- Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 8665, 1893', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 17 October 2024