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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-04-24 human Ken McInnes updated 2025-09-18 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007673b.htm person Walters Frederick John OBE AACR2 2 December 1889 9 December 1962 Place of Birth Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Victoria, Australia Surveyor Civil engineer Consulting engineer Frederick John Walters, OBE CE LS AMIEAust FISAust, was a well-known and highly regarded practicing surveyor and consulting engineer in Melbourne. He partnered with Lieut. E. L. G. Creswell in the firm of Walters and Creswell, consulting municipal engineers. They were consultants to many towns and municipalities throughout Victoria. These included Broadmeadows, Keilor, Upper Yarra, Healesville, Bulla, Mulgrave, Doncaster and Templestowe and the City of Williamstown; many Waterworks Trusts including Yarra Junction, Wesburn, St.Arnaud, Beaufort, Healesville, Marysville, Keilor, and St. Albans; many Sewerage Authorities; as well as conducting an extensive urban and rural survey practice. Partnering with Scott & Furphy, from 1935 to 1954, Walters was involved with whole of town surveys to enable the design of sewerage systems and related house connection designs. During the Second World War, he was Construction Manager for Victoria of the Allied Works Council, and as Chairman of the Melbourne Division of The Institution of Engineers Australia, he acted as Liaison Officer between The Institution of Engineers and the Departments of Supply and Development, Munitions, Army and Interior, and was Chairman of the Technical Manpower Advisory Committee. During this period he was associated with the construction of aerodromes and major defence installations. After the war, he formed a partnership with Major M. J. Lea, in the firm Walters and Lea, and they acted as consultants and engineers to many authorities. From 1948, Walters acted as the Engineer Member of the National Capital Planning and Development Committee, advising the Government on the planning and development of Canberra. His service was recognised when he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1959, and was elected a Fellow of the Institution of Surveyors Australia in 1960. 1908 1908 Career position - Training as a Civil Engineer and Surveyor, Muntz and Muntz, Consulting engineers and surveyors 1911 1911 Career event - Licensed Surveyor (LS), Registered under the Land Surveyors Act 1895 1911 1916 Career position - Senior assistant, A. K. T. Sambell, Consulting Engineer 1916 1916 Career event - Granted Certificate as Engineer of Water Supply, under Irrigation Act 1886 VIC 1916 1916 Career position - Engineer to the Shire of Healesville 1919 1919 Career position - Engineer to the Shire of Upper Yarra 1919 1919 Career event - Member, Victorian Institute of Surveyors 1920 Career position - Partnership, with Lieut. E. L. G. Creswell, in the firm of Walters and Creswell, consulting municipal engineers 1921 Life event - Toured Europe and America 1932 1932 Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia 1935 1954 Career position - Partnered with Scott and Furphy, trading as Scott Furphy and Walters, consulting engineers and surveyors 1939 Career position - Chairman, Municipal Branch, Melbourne Division, Institution of Engineers Australia 1941 1945 Career position - Construction Manager for Victoria of the Allied Works Council c. 1941 c. 1945 Career position - Chairman, Technical Manpower Advisory Committee 1942 1942 Career position - Chairman, Melbourne Division, Institution of Engineers Australia 1945 Career position - Partnership, with Major M. J. Lea, in the firm of Walters and Lea, Consulting engineers 1948 Career position - Engineer member, National Capital Planning and Development Committee 1959 1959 Award - Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) - 1960 1960 Career event - Fellow, Institute of Surveyors Australia Victoria Division, Institution of Engineers, Australia (1919 - )

Chairman, Melbourne Division 1942

 Sambell, Albert Keaston Trenavin (1879 - 1936)

Senior assistant Surveyor, 1911 - 1916

 Institution of Engineers, Australia (1919 - )

Chairman, Melbourne Division 1942

 Scott and Furphy (1933 - 1991)

Partnered with Scott & Furphy, trading as Scott, Furphy & Walters, 1935 - 1954

 'Walters, Frederick John', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Walters, Frederick John Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Obituary: Frederick John Walters Obituary: Frederick John Walters 1963 Australian Surveyor 504-505