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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2019-06-04 human Ken McInnes updated 2026-03-25 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006417b.htm person Coates John AACR2 7 July 1844 10 February 1914 Place of Birth Newcastle-on-Tyne, Durham, England Place of Death St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, England Civil engineer Hydraulic engineer Gas engineer John Coates was a prominent gas and hydraulic engineer, founder of the Melbourne and Sydney Hydraulic Power Companies, and of many gasworks and other businesses in Australia. As head of the firm John Coates and Company Ltd., he was in partnership with his nephews George Swinburne, William Swinburne and Matthew Clavering Coates. John was also responsible for gasworks and hydraulic power installations at many towns in Europe, South America and Canada, and was a consulting and inspecting engineer to the Victorian State Railways, the Commonwealth Government and to other public authorities and private corporations.

Works by John Coates between 1885 and 1891 include: Gasworks for the towns of Benalla, Ararat, Lilydale, Central Brighton, Box Hill and Surrey Hills, in Victoria; lighting of Charlers Towers (Queensland), North Suburban Melbourne, Wangaratta, Shepparton, Warraga, Maldon (Victoria), Latrobe (Tasmania) and Palmerston North (New Zealand); consulting engineer to the Parliament of Victoria Bill for high pressure power to Melbourne and its wharves, and was engineer-in-chief for the scheme; New Australasian Gas Association; Sydney and Suburban Hydraulic Power Company Limited;

[7 July 1844] [10 February 1914] Education - Newcastle-on-Tyne, Durham England 1858 1863 Career position - Pupilage, W B Lead mines, Northumberland 1863 1865 Career position - Assistant engineer, W B Lead mines, Northumberland [under T Sopwith MInstCE, T J Bewick MInstCE] 1865 1868 Career position - Lord Armstrong's Elswick Works, Newcastle [under Sir W G Armstrong] 1868 1878 Career position - Assistant engineer, Thomas and Charles Hawksley, Westminster [under T & C Hawksley MInstCE] 7 Dec 1875 7 Dec 1875 Career event - Associate Member (AssocMInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London 1878 1885 Career position - Engineer, Messrs J Abbott and Company, Hydraulic Engineers, Gateshead. 1885 1885 Life event - Migrated to Australia 1885 c. 1890 Career position - Consulting engineer, John Coates and Company, Melbourne 1886 1900 Career position - Director, Melbourne Hydraulic Power Company 1887 1888 Career position - Consulting engineer, report on goods handling of railways of Great Britain, for the Victorian Railways Commission 1888 1890? Career position - Director, Johns' Hydraulic and General Engineering Company Ltd, Melbourne 13 Mar 1888 13 Mar 1888 Career event - Member (MInstCE), Institution of Civil Engineers, London 1893 1902 Career position - Secured contract for lighting of Montreal, Canada. 1902 1904 Career position - President, Chamber of Commerce, Ottawa, Canada. 1904 Career position - Chairman, Associated Boards of the Dominion, Canada. 1904 1904 Life event - Return to Australia from Canada.. Swinburne, George (1861 - 1928)

John Coates was an Uncle of George Swinburne, and a partner in John Coates and Company Ltd.

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 'Coates, John', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Coates, John Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource: Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930 Institution of Civil Engineers, London Civil Engineer Membership Forms, 1818-1930 ancestry.com Edited Book: Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 3: 1890-1920 Chrimes, M. M.; Cox, R. C.; Cross-Rudkin, P. S. M.; Elton, J. M. H.; Hurst, B. L.; McWilliam, R. C.; Rennison, R. W.; Sutherland, R. J. M.; Thomas, R. E. Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 3: 1890-1920 London, United Kingdom Thomas Telford Publishing 2014 Resource: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers Institution of Civil Engineers Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers Institution of Civil Engineers