Person
Nevill, William Frederick (1879 - 1951)
- Born
- 1879
Casterton, Victoria, Australia - Died
- 5 May 1951
East Malvern, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Civil engineer, Hydraulic engineer and Sanitary engineer
Summary
Fred Nevill, BCE CE, Divisional engineer, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission, took a leading role in the management of irrigation districts, the construction of rural water supply systems and the introduction of rural sewerage schemes. He served as a Commissioner of the Royal Commission on Sanitation in 1926, and presented at the First Commonwealth Conference on Public Health Engineering in 1927. In 1934 he wrote a descriptive and technical summary of the water supply and sewerage systems of country towns in Victoria.
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Chronology
- 1904
- Education - Bachelor of Civil engineering (BCE), University of Melbourne
- 1904 - 1906
- Career position - Mining engineer and surveyor, Ivanhoe Gold Mine, Western Australia
- 1906 - 1908
- Career position - Consulting engineer, Californian Irrigation Districts, USA
- c. 1909 - 1915
- Career position - Office-in-charge, Shepparton Irrigation District, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission
- 1911
- Career event - Granted Certificate of Qualification as Municipal Surveyor (CE), Local Government Act 1903 VIC
- 1915 - 1917
- Military service - First World War. Sapper, 5th Field Company Engineers, AIF [Injured in action, in France]
- 1917 - 1920
- Career position - Officer-in-charge, Cohuna and Gannawarra Irrigation District, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission
- 1921 - 1922
- Career position - Officer-in-charge, Red Cliffs Irrigation District, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission
- 1922 - 1926
- Career position - Engineer, Central office, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission
- 1925 - 1926
- Career position - Commissioner, Royal Commission on Sanitation
- 1927
- Lecture - Presented two lectures, First Commonwealth Conference on Public Health Engineering, Melbourne
- 1927 - c. 1937
- Career position - Engineer for Waterworks and Sewerage Trusts, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission
- 1938 - c. 1944
- Career position - Divisional engineer, Main Urban Water supplies, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission
- c. 1944
- Life event - Retired
Published resources
Conference Papers
- Nevill, William F., 'A brief outline of the legislation governing town water supplies in the State of Victoria', in Proceedings of the First Commonwealth Conference on Public Health Engineering, Melbourne, 19th - 27th September, 1927 (1928), pp. 22-24.. Details
- Nevill, William F., 'A brief outline of legislation governing public sewerage systems in the State of Victoria', in Proceedings of the First Commonwealth Conference on Public Health Engineering, Melbourne, 19th - 27th September, 1927 (1928), pp. 18-21.. Details
Journal Articles
- Nevill, W. F., 'The water supply and sewerage of country towns', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 6 (10) (1934), 385-388, https://drive.google.com/file/d/134vmlxzMTKmkocBRjHTHH5Oyo4BrqcUg/view. Details
Parliamentary papers
- Royal Commission on Sanitation, Interim report of the Royal Commission on Sanitation, 1926 (Melbourne: H. J. Green, Government Printer, 1926), 4 pp, https://pov.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_GB/parl_paper/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:22930/one. Details
- Royal Commission on Sanitation, Report of the Royal Commission on Sanitation, 1926 (Melbourne: H. J. Green, Government Printer, 1927), 8 pp, https://pov.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_GB/parl_paper/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:22931/one. Details
Resources
- CA 2001 Australian Imperial Force, Base Records Office, 'NAA: B2455, Nevill William Frederick', B2455 First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920, National Archives of Australia, RecordSearch, https://RecordSearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=I&Number=7996019. Details
Ken McInnes
Created: 8 May 2025, Last modified: 6 November 2025