Person
Zeal, William Austin (1830 - 1912)
KCMG
- Born
- 5 December 1830
Westbury, Wiltshire, England - Died
- 11 March 1912
Toorak, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Businessman, Civil engineer and Politician
Details
Chronology
- 1845 - 1851
- Career position - Articled to Thomas Whitaker, County Surveyor for Devon and City Surveyor For Exeter, England
- 1853 - 1854
- Career position - Resident engineer, Mount Alexander and Murray River Railway Company, Victoria
- 1854 - 1859
- Career position - District engineer, Railway Department, Government of Victoria
- 1859 - 1865
- Career position - Chief engineer, Cornish & Bruce, contractors for the Melbourne to Sandhurst Railway line, length 100 miles
- 1864 - 1865
- Career position - Elected to Legislative Assembly, Victoria
- 1865 - 1887
- Career position - Consulting engineer, in general practice, Melbourne [Consulting engineer, Deniliquin and Moama Railway NSW]
- 1871 - 1874
- Career event - Elected to Legislative Assembly, Victoria
- 1879 - 1882
- Career position - City Councillor, Prahran
- 1882 - 1901
- Career position - Elected to Legislative Council, Victoria
- 1886
- Career position - Chairman, Royal Commission on Railways and Public Works, Tasmania
- 24 May 1887
- Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London
- 1892
- Career position - Minister, Postmaster-general, Victoria
- 1892 - 1901
- Career position - President, Legislative Council, Victoria
- 1895
- Award - Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG)
- 1897 - 1911
- Career position - Trustee, Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria
- 1901 - 1907
- Career position - Senator, Commonwealth Parliament
Related entries
Published resources
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. p.33. Details
- Harper, Brian C. S., Engineering challenges in nineteenth century Victoria (Port Melbourne: the author, 2016), 256 pp. Book section: 'The Melbourne, Mount Alexander and Murray River Railway' pp.18, 21, 23. Details
Book Sections
- Browne, Geoff, 'Zeal, Sir William Austin (1830-1912), Engineer, Businessman and Politician' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, John Ritchie, ed., vol. 12 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1990), pp. 605-606. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A120679b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8020702. Details
- 'Obituary. Sir William Austin Zeal, KCMG, 1830-1912.', Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Civil Engineers, https://doi.org/10.1680/imotp.1912.16569. Details
- Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 'Application: 6575, 1887', Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930, ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com.au/search/collections/3585/. Details
- 'Zeal, Sir William Austin (1830-1912)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1772648. Details
See also
- Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details
- Smith, James, ed., The Cyclopedia of Victoria: an historical and commercial review: descriptive and biographical, facts, figures and illustrations: an epitome of progress (Melbourne: Cyclopedia Co, 1903-1905), vol.1: 618 pp, vol.2: 563 pp, vol.3: 643 pp. 'Sir William Austin Zeal' Vol.1 p.152-3. Details
Ailie Smith; Ken McInnes
Created: 6 April 2016, Last modified: 3 August 2023