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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker updated 2025-02-25 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002775b.htm person Woodward Henry Page AACR2 16 May 1858 8 February 1917 Place of Birth Norwich, England Place of Death West Perth, Western Australia, Australia Geologist Henry Woodward was government geologist for Western Australia 1888-1895, a government consultant for some years and finally assistant government geologist from April 1905. His annual report for 1890, republished as "Mining handbook to the colony of Western Australia" (1894), was essential reading for miners and prospectors. He persuaded the government to sink its first artesian bore at Guildford in 1894. Woodward was also a local partner and manager of mining and consulting business on the eastern goldfields for Bewick, Moreing & Co. of London and Coolgardie. He worked as a mining engineer in his own business from 1897. 1883 1886 Career position - Geological Survey of England and Wales 1887 1887 Career position - Royal College of Science 1888 1895 Career position - Government Geologist for Western Australia 1896 1896 Career position - President, Western Australian Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers 1897 Career position - Private mining engineer practise 1905 1905 Career position - Assistant Government Geologist for Western Australia Woodward, Bernard Henry (1846 - 1916)

Bernard was Henry's father

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 'Woodward, Henry Page', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Woodward, Henry Page Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Woodward, Henry Page (1858-1917), geologist Crawford, Ian M. Woodward, Henry Page (1858-1917), geologist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1990 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 12: 1891 - 1939 Smy-Z John Ritchie 568-569 Journal Article: Eminent Living Geologists Woodward, H. Eminent Living Geologists 1899 Geological Magazine 6 Journal Article: "Those riches of which we are so proud": Western Australian geological collecting for international and intercolonial exhibitions 1850 - 1890 Zylstra, Baige "Those riches of which we are so proud": Western Australian geological collecting for international and intercolonial exhibitions 1850 - 1890 2020 Studies in Western Australian history 35 59-74 Book: The Forgotten Explorers: Pioneer geologists of Western Australia, 1826-1926 Glover, John; with Bevan, Jenny The Forgotten Explorers: Pioneer geologists of Western Australia, 1826-1926 Victoria Park, W.A. Hesperian Press 2010