Person

Murray, Stuart (1837 - 1919)

Born
9 October 1837
Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland
Died
12 April 1919
Kyneton, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Civil engineer, Public servant and Administrator

Summary

Stuart Murray was engineer-in-chief, Water Supply Department, Victoria 1886-1906. He was responsible for a number of major water conservance works, his greatest being the Goulburn Weir, of which he was co-designer, with the Waranga storage and its channels (Stuart Murray Canal).

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Educated St Andrews (land and mining surveyor, architect and civil engineer). Arrived Victoria 1855; practised his professions at Kyneton; government mining surveyor, Daylesford for six years; engineer, United Echuca and Waranga Waterworks Trust 1882-84; secretary, royal commission on water supply 1884-86; engineer-in-chief, Water Supply Department 1886-1906; chairman, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission 1906-08.

Chronology

1849 - 1852
Education - Madras College, St.Andrews, Scotland
1853 - 1854
Career position - Working in a foundry, chiefly learning mechanical work and pattern making
1855
Life event - Arrived Melbourne, Victoria
1864
Education - Diploma as Surveyor, Melbourne
1867
Career event - Granted Certificate of competency as a Mining Surveyor
1870
Career event - Granted Certificate of Competency as Engineer and Surveyor (CE), (2nd Class Cert B2), Shires Statute and Boroughs Statute 1869 VIC
1883 - 1884
Career position - Engineer, Echuca and Waranga United Waterworks Trust
1883 - 1886
Career position - Engineer, Kyneton Shire Waterworks Trust
1884 - 1886
Career position - Secretary, Royal Commission on Water Supply
1886 - 1906
Career position - Engineer-in-chief, Victorian Water Supply Department
1902
Career position - Commissioner of the "Interstate Royal Commission on the River Murray"
6 Dec 1904
Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
1906 - 1908
Career position - Chairman, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission

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Books

  • Cumming, D. A., Some Public Works Engineers in Victoria in the Nineteenth Century (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 1985), 59 pp. pp.23-24. Details

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Journal Articles

  • Churchyard, J. N., 'Pioneers of Irrigation in Australia, Number 3. Stuart Murray. Engineer and Administrator', Aqua: Official Journal of the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Victoria (1956), 68-70. Details

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See also

  • Directory for cities, towns, boroughs, shires and districts in the colony of Victoria for 1875 (Melbourne: Evans Brothers, 1875), 184 pp, http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-393176554. Granted Certicate of Competency as Engineer and Surveyor under the Shires and Boroughs Statutes: p.v. Details
  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_m.html. Details

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