George Wright
WRIGHT, Ward George, (1868-1931)
GEORGE WARD WRIGHT was born at Liverpool, UK in 1868 and died on 11th October 1931 at his home in New South Wales, Australia.
He commenced his apprenticeship with Messrs. Kitson and Company, and attended Yorkshire College. He then went abroad and finished his apprenticeship with Mort’s Dock and Engineering Company of Sydney. He was later successively engaged as draughtman to the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Sydney, assistant engineer to the Tasmanian Gold Mining Company, and chief mechanical engineer to the Mount Lyell Company, Queenstown, Tasmania, where he was responsible for the design and installation of the 10,000 h.p. hydro-electric power scheme at Lake Margaret.
Subsequently he was resident engineer and manager of the National Portland Cement Company, Maria Island, Tasmania, and for over a year held a responsible position with the London and Rhodesian Gold Mining Company in Rhodesia.
Returning to Australia, Mr. Wright became a partner in the firm Messrs. Macnicol, Wright and Company, industrial engineers of Sydney.
He was a Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers since 1909, and was also a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
References: 1932 Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Obituaries, United Kingdom.
Wright, Geo. W. – “Notes on Lake Margaret Hydro-Electric Power Scheme”, in Proceedings of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineering. (New Series, No. 17, 1915.), State Library of Tasmania.
Wright, Geo. W. – “Lake Margaret Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, Mt. Lyell, Tasmania”, op.cit, New Series, No 19, 1915.
Who’s Who in Australia 1994.
Blainey, Geoffrey, “Peaks of Lyell”, Melbourne, 1967, p.232.
