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Fowler, Thomas Walker (1859 - 1928)

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Civil engineer

Born: 23 November 1859 Blaris Lodge, Down, Ireland. Died: 23 November 1928 Kew, Victoria, Australia.

Thomas Walker Fowler initially worked as an engineer for the surveyor’s branch of the Victorian and New South Wales railways. In 1882 he was appointed engineer to the Shire of Huntley (Victoria) and oversaw the water-supply schemes and their associated conservation schemes for the areas of Broken River, Shepparton, Yarrawonga and Gisborne. Fowler spent the next twenty-seven years combining a private consulting practice with lecturing and demonstrating for the Engineering Department of the University of Melbourne. In 1913 he moved to Tasmania to head the Public Works Department. Thomas Fowler was a member of many professional bodies and committees including the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Secretary then President) and the Victorian Institute of Surveyors and was widely published.

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Chronology
1876 Migrated to Australia (Melbourne)
1879 Certificate in Civil Engineering (CS) completed at the University of Melbourne
1880 - 1881 Engineer at the Victorian Railways
1881 Engineer at the New South Wales Government Railways
1882 - 1885 Engineer at Huntley Shire, Victoria
1885 Master of Civil Engineering (MCE) completed at the University of Melbourne
1885 - 1891 Private practice as a Consulting Engineer in Melbourne
1891 - 1903 Lecturer in Surveying at the University of Melbourne
1892 President of the Victorian Institue of Surveyors
1896 - 1904 Demonstrator in Engineering at the University of Melbourne
1905 - 1909 Lecturer in Civil Engineering at the University of Melbourne
1908 - 1913 Chairman of the Municipal Surveyor's Board of Victoria
1909 Member of the special board of inquiry into Melbourne water supply
1909 Member of the Perth and Fremantle sewerage report for the Western Australian Government
1909 - 1912 Private practice as a Consulting Engineer in Melbourne
1912 - 1913 Engineer at the firm Fowler & Tuxen
1913 - 1918 Engineer-in-Chief and Head of the Public Works Department in Tasmania

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'Fowler, Thomas Walker', in Physics in Australia to 1945, R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham, Australian Science Archives Project, June 1995, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P001053p.htm. [ Details ]

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Prepared by: McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993
Modified: 31 July 2006

Published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre on ASAPWeb, 1994 - 2007
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