Person
Walsh, Henry Deane (1853 - 1921)
- Born
- 16 September 1853
Dublin, Ireland - Died
- 29 August 1921
Roseville, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Engineer
Summary
Henry Walsh was engineer-in-chief for the Sydney Harbour Trust on its establishment in 1901 until his retirement in 1919, being commissioner of the trust from 1913. Previously he had been district engineer for public works programmes from Lake Macquarie to the Queensland border. He is commemorated by Walsh Island in Newcastle Harbour and Walsh Bay on Sydney's waterfront.
Details
Chronology
- 1874
- Education - Educated at Trinity College, Dublin (BA, BAI [Engineering]
- 1875 - 1876
- Career position - Engineering works in England
- 1876 - 1877
- Career position - Engineer, Great Southern and Western Railway Co., Ireland
- 1878 - 1901
- Career position - Engineer, Department of Public Works, New South Wales
- 1879 - 1891
- Career position - Resident Engineer, Newcastle, New South Wales
- 6 Feb 1883
- Career event - Associate Member (AssocMInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
- 5 Nov 1889
- Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
- 1891 - 1896
- Career position - Supervising Engineer (to 1895), then District Engineer in Newcastle
- 1896 - 1901
- Career position - President, Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board
- 1901 - 1913
- Career position - Engineer-in-Chief, Sydney Harbour Trust
- 1909
- Career position - President, Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1913 - 1919
- Career position - Commissioner, Sydney Harbour Trust
Related entries
Published resources
Books
- Rowe, Susan, Henry Deane Walsh: the Australian years 1879 to 1928 [sic]: his family, homes, his work (Epping, N.S.W.: Susan Rowe, 2016), 641 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Troy, P.N.; Lloyd, C.J., 'Walsh, Henry Deane (1853-1921), Engineer' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 12 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 370-371. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120415b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Walsh, H. D., 'Notes on harbour engineering', Journal and abstract of proceedings of the Sydney University Engineering Society, 16 (1911), 71-115, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/SUES/article/view/2179. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21565978. Details
- Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 5279, 1883', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
- 'Walsh, Henry Deane (1853-1921)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469315. Details
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
- Spooner, E. S. (Hon.), 'History and Development of Port Kembla', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 10 (1938), 279-293. [Walsh designed Port Kembla Harbour 1912.]. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 5 March 2018