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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2024-04-24 human Ken McInnes updated 2026-03-17 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007371b.htm person Piesse Edmund Leolin AACR2 26 July 1880 16 May 1947 Place of Birth New Town, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Place of Death Kew, Victoria, Australia Lawyer Geographer Analyst Edmund Piesse BSc LLB was a prominent practicing solicitor in company law, and lectured in company taxation at the University of Melbourne. However, in his early career he helped prepare the first military survey maps of Tasmania, and during the First World War was a Major in, and Director of Military Intelligence, researching the geopraphy and nations of the Pacific, including Japan. In 1918 he established the first school of Oriental studies at the University of Sydney, headed by Professor James Murdoch. After the war he was a senior advisor to the Australian Government on the Pacific, visited Japan in 1919, attended the first meeting of the League of Nations in Geneva in 1920, and the Washington Conference on the limitation of armaments in 1921. Piesse was a member, Secretary and Treasurer of the Royal Society of Tasmania, and presented and published a history of the Society in 1913, and other papers including one on the theory of quotas in proportional representation. In 1923 he was elected a member of the geography section of the Australian National Research Council. c. 1900 c. 1900 Education - Bachelor of Law (LLB), University of Tasmania 1900 1900 Education - Bachelor of Science (BSc), University of Tasmania c. 1901 c. 1902 Education - Studied Mathematics, King's College, University of Cambridge [Abandoned when he returned to Tasmania on the death of his father Frederick William Piesse MHR] c. 1902 c. 1914 Career position - Practicing solicitor, in Tasmania 1909 1909 Career event - Lieutenant, Australian Intelligence Corps (Tasmanian District), Department of Defence [Helped prepare the first military survey map of Tasmania] 1910 Career position - Member, Commonwealth Meteorological Board - nominated by Tasmanian Government. [Helped co-ordinate the observation of the Solar eclipse in Tasmania] 1911 1911 Career event - Captain, Australian Intelligence Corps (Tasmanian District), Department of Defence 1912 1914 Career position - Secretary, Royal Society of Tasmania 1915 1919 Military service - Honorary Major, Australian Field Artillery, Australian Military Forces 1916 1919 Career position - Director of Military Intelligence, Defence Department, Melbourne 1918 1918 Career event - Established the first school of Oriental studies, University of Sydney 1919 c. 1922 Career position - Director, Pacific Branch, Prime Minister's Department 1920 1920 Career event - Attended the first meeting of the League of Nations, Geneva [with Senator Millen, Minister for Repatriation] 1921 1922 Career event - Attended Washington Conference on the limitation of armaments [As adviser to Sir George Pearce, Minister for Defence] 1921 1947 Career position - Member, Royal Society of Victoria c. 1922 c. 1923 Career position - Inaugural Secretary, Department of External Affairs 1923 Career event - Elected Member (Geography), Australian National Research Council 1923 1947 Career position - Practicing solicitor, in Victoria c. 1930 c. 1947 Career position - Conducted a course in company taxation, University of Melbourne 1932 1945 Career position - Editor, Victorian Law Institute Journal 1935 1935 Publication - Book: Japan and the Defence of Australia c. 1940 c. 1947 Career position - Senior partner, Company Solicitor, Davies, Campbell and Piesse 1942 1944 Career position - President, Law Institute of Victoria The University of Melbourne (1853 - )

Conducted courses in company taxation c1930 - c1947

 The University of Sydney (1850 - )

Piesse established the first school of Oriental Studies in 1918

 Royal Society of Tasmania (1843 - )

Treasurer, Secretary c1912 - 1914

 Australian National Research Council (ANRC) (1919 - 1955)

Member (Geography) 1923 -

 'Piesse, Edmund Leolin', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Piesse, Edmund Leolin Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: The Foundation and Early Work of the Society with Some Account of Other Institutions of Early Hobart Piesse, E. L. The Foundation and Early Work of the Society with Some Account of Other Institutions of Early Hobart 1913 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1913 117-166 Newspaper Article: Obituary: Mr. E. L. Piesse Obituary: Mr. E. L. Piesse 1947 The Age 2