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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-09-04 human Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes updated 2025-08-12 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002935b.htm person Hunt Philip Charles Holmes AACR2 19 July 1874 6 May 1941 Place of Birth Aston, Warwickshire, England Place of Death Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Industrial chemist Holmes Hunt came to Australia in 1903 and worked as Assistant Engineer and later Chief engineer of the Metropolitan Gas Company, Melbourne. He was Chairman of the local Board of the Colonial Gas Association Ltd from 1914 and Managing Director from 1919. He was the most prominent person in the gas industry in Australia for many years.

Born Birmingham, England, 19 July 1874. Died 1941. Educated Worcestershire & Mason University (Later Birmingham University). Manager, Adderley Street Gasworks, Birmingham 1900-03, Assistant Engineer, Metropolitan Gas Company, Melbourne 1903-05, Acting Engineer 1906, Engineer 1907-13, Director, Crankless Engines Ltd, Johns & Waygood Ltd, Wallaroo Mt Lyell Fertilisers Ltd, South Australia, Commonwealth Fertilisers and Chemicals Ltd, Consulting Engineer to Australian Gas Light Company, Sydney, South Australian Gas Company, City of Newcastle Gas & Coke Company and other companies, chairman, Mr Lyell Mining & Railway Company Ltd, Chairman, Colonial Gas Association Ltd, deputy chairman, Metropolitan Gas Company. Founder and first President, Australian Gas Institution, Chairman, Gas Companies Association of Australia.

1896 1896 Career event - Associate, Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland c. 1902 c. 1902 Career event - Member, Institution of Gas Engineers, London 1902 1914 Career position - Chief engineer, Metropolitan Gas Company, Melbourne 7 Mar 1911 7 Mar 1911 Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London 1920 1920 Career event - Fellow, Institute of Chemistry of Great Britain and Ireland 1922 1941 Career position - Director, Metropolitan Gas Company, Melbourne 1940 1941 Career position - Director of Substitute Fuels, Common Conference convened by the Prime Minister, S.M. Bruce, to consider the reorganisation of the Commonwealth Institute of Science and Industry, 30 May and 1 June 1925

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 Metropolitan Gas Company (? - 1950)

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 Hunt, Philip Charles Holmes (1874-1941)

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 'Hunt, Philip Charles Holmes', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hunt, Philip Charles Holmes Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Hunt, Philip Charles Holmes (1874-1941), gas engineer and company director Richmond, Merle Hunt, Philip Charles Holmes (1874-1941), gas engineer and company director Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1983 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 406-407 Resource: Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930 Institution of Civil Engineers, London Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930 ancestry.com Phillip Charles Holmes Hunt - Records The University of Melbourne Archives Phillip Charles Holmes Hunt - Records 97/145 Letters Patent, Commonwealth of Australia. A "Means for receiving coke from gas retorts, and delivering or directing such coke into a furnace or alternatively to a conveyor or trucks for depositing it where required." Grant to P.C. Holmes Hunt, 10 March 1909, renewed 10 March 1916 and 1923. Printed specification of the invention bound in. "Apparatus for use in storing coal or coke". Granted 10 March 1909, renewed 10 March 1923. Letters Patent issued to Charles Frederick Broadhead, Queensland, Frederick Gordon Barker, Melbourne and P.C.H. Hunt, Melbourne, for "Improvements in and relating to the manufacture of combustible gases", 1 September 1923, together with printed specification of invention. Scrapbook containing newscuttings concerning chiefly social activities, including those of Hunt's daughters Phyllis (Mrs. Wilfrid Tennant Hunter) and Cara, from Australian and Indian papers, and friends e.g. Miss John Chirnside (Mrs. Alec Waugh). One item, undated, records that P.C. Homes Hunt has chaired the inaugural meeting of the English Public Schools' Association of Victoria. c. 1932-1934. Items interleaved include arrangements for Cara Holmes Hunt's wedding to A.M. Barne, 1937; 3 drawings by J. (?) on S.S. Cathay; diary note on polo match in India. Phillip Charles Holmes Hunt - Records The University of Melbourne Archives Phillip Charles Holmes Hunt - Records 61/15 1888 - 1923 Correspondence 1894-1923; diaries and note books 1888-1890, 1903- 1905, 1909, 1913-1922; personal accounts 1903-1923; technical reports, memoranda, notes etc. 1890-1918; printed matter 1898-1920; blueprints and drawings 1895-1909; memorabilia 1891-1920; photographs. Patent papers; Birmingham Gasworks correspondence, reports, working papers, Metropolitan Gas Co. appointment; engineering interests, directorships and business interests. 2.5 m