Biographical entry Phillips, Leslie William (1893 - 1949)

Summary

Leslie William Phillips was Superintendent of Technical Education in Western Australia from 1941 until ill health forced him to retire in 1948. After holding teaching positions in his home State of Victoria, Phillips took up a post as Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry at Perth Technical School (1920). There he received a grant from the Australian Science and Industrial Endowment Fund to investigate toxic principles in common poison plants. Nine years later he was appointed Assistant Superintendent of Technical Education.

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Events

1915 - 1918

Career position - War service with the Australian Imperial Force in the medical units in England and with the 2nd Field Ambulance in France (1918)

1919

Career position - Teacher at Hamilton High School then Footscray Technical School in Victoria

1919

Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1920

Education - Diploma in Education (DipEd) completed at the University of Melbourne

1920 - c. 1929

Career position - Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry at Perth Technical School

1923

Education - Master of Science (MSc) completed at the University of Melbourne

1929 - 1940

Career position - Assistant Superintendent of Technical Education in Western Australia

1931 - 1932

Career position - President of the Royal Society of Western Australia

1935

Career position - Carnegie Foundation Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London

1938

Education - Master of Education completed at the University of Melbourne

1941 - 1948

Career position - Superintendent of Technical Education in Western Australia

1943

Career position - President of the (Royal) Australian Chemical Institute

Published resources

Book Sections

• Birman, Wendy, 'Phillips, Leslie William (1893-1949), Chemist and Educationist', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 15, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000, pp. 604-605. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150709b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• 'Obituary: Leslie William Phillips', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, vol. 16, July, 1949, pp. 238-239. Details
• 'Obituary: Leslie William Phillips', Australian Journal of Science, vol. 12, no. 2, 1949, p. 68. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Phillips, L W', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-564288. Details