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Cullen, Edward Alexander Ernest (1861 - 1950)

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Engineer

Born: 21 December 1861 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Died: 13 April 1950 South Brisbane, Quebec, Australia.

Edward Alexander E. Cullen worked as a surveyor and engineer for the Queensland Government for over 40 years. Many of his surveys were to areas never charted before and included the first ever survey of the Norman River (1884) and the discovery of Port Musgrave (1887). When working as chief engineer for the Department of Harbours and Rivers, he oversaw the expansion of the Brisbane River to a fourteen-mile useable shipping channel. His 1922 paper Improvement of the Brisbane River won the highly respected Telford Premium Award from Institution of Civil Engineers of UK. The same Institute which awarded Cullen full membership in 1902. In 1932 he was also appointed a Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO) for "for meritorious service in the clerical and administrative grades of the Civil Service throughout the British Empire".

Career Highlights

Chronology
1875 - c. 1880 Civil Assistant to the Royal Navy Survey of the Queensland Coast
c. 1880 - 1883 Assistant to the Government Hydraulic Engineer
1884 Norman River survey
1884 - 1893 Nautical Surveyor for the Department of Harbours and Rivers
1887 Port Musgrave survey
1890 - 1891 Moreton Bay survey
1893 - c. 1900 Principal Engineer at Department of Marine in Queensland
1895 - 1901 Associate member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, London
1900 Harbours and water power fact-finding trip to Europe and USA
c. 1901 - 1931 Chief Engineer at the Department of Harbours and Rivers in Queensland
1902 - Full member of the Institute of Civil Engineers, London
1931 Retired
1932 Companion of the Imperial Service Order

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Prepared by: Annette Alafaci
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 9 October 2006

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