Person

Hargreaves, William Arthur (1866 - 1959)

Born: 29 October 1866
Ipswich, Queensland, Australia
Died: 31 March 1959
St Peters, South Australia, Australia
Occupation: Chemist

Summary

William Hargreaves was Director of the Gordon Technical College, Victoria 1891-1897 when he became Assistant Government Analyst, Queensland Mines Department. From 1899 he was the South Australian Government Analyst and Director of the new Department of Chemistry from 1916.

Related Corporate Bodies

State Committee South Australia, Advisory Council of Science and Industry (1916 - 1920)
Member 1916 - 1920

Archival resources

State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana

William Arthur Hargreaves - Records, 1902 - 1955, PRG 64; State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details

Book Sections

Farrall, Lyndsay, 'Hargreaves, William Arthur (1866-1959), Chemist and Government Analyst' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 9 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1983), pp. 198-199. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090195b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

Hargreaves, W.A., 'On a Method of Shortening Certain Chemical Calculations', Report of the sixth meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, 6 (1895), 306-308, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52884180. Details

Resources

Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21539177. Details
VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/93727553. Details
'Hargreaves, W A (1866-1959)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-581119. Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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