Person

Adams, Walter Edward (1861 - 1939)

Born
4 September 1861
Albury, New South Wales, Australia
Died
9 June 1939
Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Civil engineer and Harbour engineer

Summary

Walter Adams, MInstCE MIEAust, Civil engineer was Engineer-in-Chief of the Sydney Harbour Trust from 1919 to 1926. He commenced with the Sydney Harbour Trust when it was formed in 1901, as assistant engineer in charge of Designing Branch, having transferred from the Harbours and Rivers Branch, Public Works Department. He was responsible for the planning of all wharves and other works.

After he retired, he was commisisoned to report on the outer harbour Mackay and the port facilities at Cairns, both in Queensland, and in May 1938 he reported on the harbour facilities at Devonport, Tasmania.

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Chronology

- 1885
Career position - Engineer, Lands Department, New South Wales
1881 - 1885
Career position - Engineer, Southern Pacific Railway Company, USA [under William Hood]
1887 - 1900
Career position - Engineer, Public Works Department, New South Wales [under W C Bennett MInstCE]
1901 - 1919
Career position - Designing engineer, Sydney Harbour Trust [under H D Walsh MInstCE]
1908
Career event - Associate Member (AssocMInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
1911
Career event - Member, Engineering Association of New South Wales
1916
Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
1919
Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1919 - 1926
Career position - Engineer-in-Chief, Sydney Harbour Trust
1920
Career event - Member (MIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
1926
Life event - Retired
c. 1930
Career position - Consultant engineer, Port Mackay outer harbour and Cairns Harbour Board,Queensland Government
1936
Career position - Consultant engineer, Marine Board of Mersey, Devonport, Tasmania

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Edited Books

  • Gibbney, H. J.; and Smith, Ann G. eds, A Biographical register 1788-1939 : notes from the name index of the Australian Dictionary of biography. (2 volumes) (Canberra: Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1987), 429 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • 'Memoirs', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 12 (Dec 1940) (1940), 332-335. 'Walter Edward Adams, MIEAust', p.332-3. Details

Resources

See also

  • Rich, Norman, 'Chapter 7: Harbour works' in Sydney: from settlement to city: an engineering history of Sydney, Don Fraser, ed. (Crows Nest, New South Wales: Engineers Australia, 1989), pp. 151-168. Details

Ken McInnes

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