Person
Knight, Rupert Grenville (Grenville) (1893 - 1989)
MC
- Born
- 14 January 1893
Echuca, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 18 April 1989
Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Civil engineer
Summary
Grenville Knight MC MCE FIEAust was Chief Designing Engineer, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Victoria, and in that role was responsible in 1948 for the design of the enlarged Eildon Dam, constructed on the Goulburn River, Victoria.
Earlier, he was the resident engineer for the construction of the innovative Torrumbarry Weir and Lock of the River Murray Works in 1923. This weir used 14 removable steel trestles that could be winched out of the river to allow the passage of floods.
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Chronology
- 1914 - 1918
- Military service - First World War. Captain, 2nd Field Company, Engineers [Served and wounded in Gallipoli and France]
- 1918
- Award - Military Cross
- 1919 -
- Career position - Engineer, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Victoria
- 1919
- Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1924
- Education - Master of Civil Engineering (MCE), University of Melbourne
- 1927
- Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1936 -
- Career position - Chief Designing Engineer, Investigations and Designs Branch, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Victoria
- 1941 - 1944
- Military service - Second World War. Lt Colonel, 6th Australian CRE HQ CE Southern Command, RAE NT Force
- 1946
- Career event - Overseas visit to the U.S.A., Canada and Mexico, to study the design of large dams for irrigation works
- 1953
- Award - Warren Memorial Prize, Institution of Engineers Australia
- 13 Sep 1968
- Career event - Fellow (FIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia [Former Members were designated Fellows on this date.]
- 1989
- Buried - Cremated, Springvale Botanical Cemetery
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Published resources
Conference Papers
- Knight, R. G., 'Dams and reservoirs - Some aspects of investigation and design', in Proceedings of the Engineering Conference, 1953, Melbourne (Sydney: Institution of Engineers Australia, 1953), pp. 146-169.. Details
Journal Articles
- Knight, R. G., 'Eildon Weir enlargement project, Victoria', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 20 (7-8) (1948), 73-80. Details
- Knight, R. G.; Rosenthal, C. C., 'Eildon Weir enlargement project , Victoria (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 20 (12) (1948), 201-202. Details
- Shaw, E. D.; Knight, R. G., 'Torrumbarry Weir and Lock of the River Murray Works', Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 8 (1929), 34-70, https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.263707737641191. Details
Reports
- Institution of Engineers Australia, Thirty-fifth Annual Report [1954] (1955), 14 pp. 'Prizes - Warren Memorial Prize (1953 Award), to Mr R G Knight, MC MCE MIEAust, Melbourne Division, for his paper "Dams and Reservoirs - Some Aspects of Investigation and Design"', p.3. Details
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Created: 23 July 2025, Last modified: 6 August 2025