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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2025-05-08 human Ken McInnes updated 2026-03-25 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P007689b.htm person Sambell Albert Keaston Trenavin AACR2 1879 25 September 1936 Place of Birth Violet Town, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Toorak, Victoria, Australia Civil engineer Hydraulic engineer Albert Sambell CE AMIEAust was a consulting civil and hydraulic engineer, for the municipalities of Towong, Traralgon, Sale, Warburton, Frankston and Hastings, and Mornington, and was a pioneer in the improvement of roads. He designed the water supply for Sale, Traralgon, Morwell, Dandenong, Frankston, Cobden, Violet Town, Glenrowan, the Flinders Naval Depot, and the Mornington Peninsula. Sambell established the Phillip Island and Westernport Shipping Company ferry service between Phillip Island and the mainland, the Isle of Wight hotel at Cowes, developed a motor racing circuit, and helped make the island a leading holiday resort. He was President of the Shire of Phillip Island from its formation in 1929, until his death in 1936. From about 1918, engineer Charles W. A. A. Candy, was employed by Sambell, and from about 1921 they became partners in the consulting practice Sambell and Candy.

Associated Works:
* Hydro-electric scheme for Traralgon 1910;
* Nepean Highway, Oliver's Hill road re-alignment, 1913;
* Hydro-electric scheme for Warburton 1915;
* Lakes Entrance Water Supply 1920;
* Frankston Dandenong Road, 1920;

1900 1900 Career position - Assistant to Shire engineer Benalla [under W. H. White] 1901 1902 Career position - Assistant engineer and thistle inspector, Towong Shire Council 1902 1905 Career position - Shire engineer, Towong Shire 1905 1905 Career position - Shire engineer, Alberton Shire Council 1905 1905 Career event - Granted Certificate of Competency as Municipal Surveyor (CE), Local Government Act 1903 VIC 1905 1917 Career position - Secretary and consulting engineer, Traralgon Shire Council 1907 1907 Career event - Granted Certificate as Engineer of Water Supply, under Irrigation Act 1886 VIC 1907 1907 Career position - Engineer, Traralgon Water Trust 1908 1911 Career position - Engineer, Sale Borough Council [Sale waterworks] 1908 1914 Career position - Engineer, Upper Yarra Shire Council 1909 1909 Career event - Proposed Warburton hydro-electric scheme 1909 1921 Career position - Consulting engineer, Frankston and Hastings Shire Council 1910 1910 Career event - Proposed Hydro-electric scheme for Traralgon 1912 1912 Career event - Established the Phillip Island ferry service 1913 1916 Career position - Engineer, Mornington Shire 1914 1914 Career event - Cobden Water Supply scheme 1917 1917 Career position - Engineer, Rosedale Water Trust 1918 1918 Career position - Secretary, Road Users Association [Lobbied for construction of Great Ocean Road] 1920 1920 Career position - Mildura Sewerage and Drainage scheme 1926 1926 Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia (Admitted from Institution of Municipal Engineers of Victoria, following amalgamation) 1928 1936 Career position - First President, Phillip Island Shire Walters, Frederick John (1889 - 1962)

Senior assistant Surveyor, 1911 - 1916

 Candy, Charles William Albert Augustus (1894 - 1981)

Partnered in the consulting practice Sambell and Candy, c1921 - 1935

 'Sambell, Albert Keaston Trenavin', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Sambell, Albert Keaston Trenavin Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Seventh Annual General Meeting [March 1927] and Seventh Annual Report [1926] Institution of Engineers Australia Seventh Annual General Meeting [March 1927] and Seventh Annual Report [1926] 1927 Transactions of the Institution of Engineers, Australia 7 xvi-xli Journal Article: Memoirs Memoirs 1937 Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia 9 10 409-411