Biographical entry Lukin, Gresley (1840 - 1916)

Summary

Gresley Lukin co-patented a process for the manufacture of sugar from juice without lime in 1877. He had a varied life which involved two years study as an engineer, acting, several clerk positions, and editor of several newspapers including the Brisbane Courierand the Queenslander.

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Events

1865 - 1868

Career position - Recording Clerk at Maranoa Land Office at Roma, Queensland

1868 - 1871

Career position - Chief Clerk at the Lands Department in Brisbane

1871 - 1873

Career position - Chief clerk of the Supreme Court of Queensland

1873 - 1880

Career position - Editor of the Brisbane Courier and the Queenslander

1881 - 1884

Life event - Moved to Melbourne

1884 - 1890

Career position - Manager of a New South Wales tin-mining company

1890 - 1892

Career position - Bought and ran the Boomerang paper

1893 - 1896

Career position - Parliamentary Reporter on the Evening Post in Wellington, New Zealand

1896 -

Career position - Editor of the Evening Post

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science Exhibitions

• Collins, David, Chemistry in Australia Bibliography, eScholarship Research Centre, 2009, http://www.eoas.info/ciab.html. Details

Book Sections

• Eastes, Charles; Lukin, Gresley; Boyd, Alexander Jenyns William, 'An Invention for the Better Clarificatioin of Cane-juice and Improvements in Making Sugar, also for Extracting Crystallizable Sugar from Molasses, and its Adaption to the Refinement of Sugar (Patent No. 567, 6 February 1877)', in Index to New South Wales Letters of Registration of Inventions, 1854 to July 1887, Government Printer, Sydney, 1891. Details
• Gibbney, H. J., 'Lukin, Gresley (1840-1916)', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1974, pp. 108-109. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050129b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Eastes, Charles, Lukin, Gresley and Boyd, William Alexander Jenyn, 'Manufacture of sugar from juice without lime, &c. (Patent, 6 April, 1877)', Specifications of Letters of Registration of Patents for Inventions - South Australia, 1874-8, vol. 3, no. 285, 1877, p. 3. Details

Online Resources

• 'Lukin, Gresley', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-570590. Details