Person
Foxall, Henry George (Harry) (1884 - 1966)
HonFIS
- Born
- 7 October 1884
St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 22 April 1966
Mona Vale District Hospital, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Consulting engineer, Engineer and Surveyor
Summary
Harry Foxall, BE HonFIS AMIEAust, was a consulting engineer and a prominent member of the surveying profession. He was the editor of "The Australian Surveyor", contributing many articles, and wrote the book "Handbook for practising land and engineering surveyors" (1957. 2nd ed, 1970).
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Chronology
- 1904
- Award - Deas Thompson Scholarship for Geology, University of Sydney [Studied under Sir Douglas Mawson and Prof T. G. Taylor]
- 1905
- Education - Bachelor of Engineering (Mining and Metallurgy) (BE), University of Sydney
- 1906 - 1920
- Career position - Mining and metallurgical work, Queensland and Port Kembla
- 1910 - 1914
- Career position - Surveyor, working for his uncle Stuart Randolph Dobbie
- 1911
- Research - Report on the prospects of oil in Timor
- 1912
- Career event - Licensed Surveyor (LS), New South Wales
- 1914 - 1936
- Career position - Partner with Stuart Randolph Dobbie, in Dobbie and Foxall, Land, engineering and mining surveyors
- 1916 - 1945
- Career position - Part-time lecturer n Surveying, Sydney Technical College
- 1919
- Career event - Foundation Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia
- 1919 - 1949
- Career position - Member of Council, Institute of Surveyors, Sydney Division
- 1919 - 1966
- Career event - Member, Institute of Surveyors, Sydney Division
- 1924 - 1925
- Career position - President, Institute of Surveyors
- 1925
- Research - Report on the possibilities of oil in Papua
- 1929
- Career position - Member, New South Wales Board of Surveyors
- 1934 -
- Career event - First Vice-president, Town and Country Planning Institute
- 1935
- Research - Investigation of hydro-electric resources on Viti Levu, Fiji
- 1936 - 1959
- Career position - Partner with Alfred John Lines, in Foxall and Lines, Land, engineering and mining surveyors
- 11 May 1937
- Award - King George VI Coronation Medal
- 1945 - 1947
- Career position - President, Institute of Surveyors, Sydney Division
- 1949
- Award - Honorary Fellow (HonFIS), Institute of Surveyors
- 1949
- Life event - Retired
- 1957
- Publication - Book: "Handbook for practising land and engineering surveyors"
Published resources
Books
- Foxall, H. G., Handbook for practising land and engineering surveyors (Sydney: Institution of Surveyors, Australia, 1957), 230 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Atchison, John, 'Foxall, Henry George (1884-1966), engineer and surveyor' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 14: 1940 - 1980 Di-Kel, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1996), p. 211. https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/foxall-henry-george-harry-10233. Details
Journal Articles
- Anon, 'Obituary - Henry George Foxall', The Australian Surveyor (1966), 821-2. Details
- Foxall, H. G., 'The estimation of volumes', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 4 (1) (1932), 32-. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24088277. Details
- 'Foxall, Henry George (1884-19661231)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1469417. Details
Ailie Smith; Ken McInnes
Created: 6 April 2016, Last modified: 2 September 2025