Biographical entry Hargreaves, William Arthur (1866 - 1959)

Summary

William Arthur Hargreaves was Director of the Gordon Technical College, Victoria 1891-7 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.

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

Book Sections

• Farrall, Lyndsay, 'Hargreaves, William Arthur (1866-1959), Chemist and Government Analyst', in Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle (eds), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 9, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1983, pp. 198-199. Also available at 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, vol. 6, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, Sydney, 1895, pp. 306-308. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Hargreaves, W A', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-581119. Details