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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-05-25 human Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes updated 2026-02-02 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003692b.htm person Knox Edward William AACR2 1 April 1847 26 June 1933 Place of Birth Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Place of Death Bellevue Hill, New South Wales, Australia Industrialist Edward William Knox joined the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, which had been founded by his father, Edward Knox (qv) as a junior clerk in April 1864, becoming chairman and managing director in 1920. He resigned as managing director in December 1932 and from the board in February 1933. 1877 1933 Career position - Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales 1888 Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science Knox, Edward (1819 - 1901) Conference convened by the Prime Minister, W.M Hughes, to consider the question of the establishment of a National Laboratory, 5 January 1916 Colonial Sugar Refining Company (1855 - 1974)

Chairman and Managing Director 1920 -1932; Board member to 1933.

 Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science (1888 - 1930)

Original [founding] member 1888 -

 Royal Society of New South Wales (1866 - )

Fellow 1877 - 1933

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 Knox, Edward William (18470401-19330626)

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 'Knox, Edward William', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Knox, Edward William Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: On an Application of Chemical Control to a Manufacturing Business Knox, Edward W. On an Application of Chemical Control to a Manufacturing Business Melbourne Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1890 Report of the second meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 2 372-379 Book Section: Knox, Edward William (1847-1933), industrialist Rutledge, Martha Knox, Edward William (1847-1933), industrialist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1983 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 9: 1891 - 1939 Gil-Las Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 626-628 Journal Article: Presidential address Challinor, R. W. Presidential address 1934 Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 68 1-35 Book: The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 Currie, George; Graham, John The Origins of CSIRO: Science and the Commonwealth Government, 1901-1926 Melbourne CSIRO 1966 Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Online Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2000