Richard G. Hartley

Richard Gordon Hartley was an Australian civil engineer and mining and engineering industry historian.

He was born in the United Kingdom, on 30 June 1939, and died in Perth, Western Australia in 2016.[1][2] He attained an honours degree from Murdoch University in 1992 focusing upon gold mining in the early twentieth century Goldfields of Western Australia.[3] In 1998, he completed his PhD at the same university looking at the changes in technology in more detail.[4]

His work on the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme and Mundaring Weir, published in 2007, has been the most thorough work on the scheme, that coincided with the centenary of the scheme. It involved extensive archival research, and extensive interviews.[5][6]

Mining heritage membership and awards

Selected works
  • Cumming, Denis A. and Hartley, Richard G., Westralian founders of twentieth century mining: career biographies of mining engineers, mine managers and metallurgists who worked in the Western Australian mining industry 1890-1920, Richard G. Hartley, Rossmoyne W.A., 2014.
  • Hartley, Richard G., River of steel: a history of Western Australian goldfields and agricultural water supply, 1903 - 2003, Access Press, Bassendean, W.A., 2007.
  • Hartley, Richard G., "Fernie, Norman (1898-1977) Engineer", in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 14, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996, pp. 155–156.
  • Hartley, Richard G., A history of technological change in Kalgoorlie gold metallurgy between 1895 and 1915, PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1998, 2 v.

References
  1. http://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005728b.htm Encyclopedia of Australian Science entry for Richard Hartley
  2. Young, Don, 'Vale Richard Gordon Hartley, 30th June 1939 - 5th May 2016', Engineering Heritage Australia Magazine, vol. 2, no. 3, 2016, pp. 18-9.
  3. Hartley, Richard G; Murdoch University. School of Social Sciences (1992), The 1904 watershed in Bewick Moreing's Western Australian gold mining activities, retrieved 3 December 2018
  4. Hartley, Richard G; Murdoch University. Division of Social Sciences, Humanities and Education (1998), A history of technological change in Kalgoorlie gold metallurgy 1895-1915, retrieved 3 December 2018
  5. Hartley, Richard G (2007), River of steel : a history of the Western Australian Goldfields and Agricultural Water Supply 1895-2003, Access Press, ISBN 978-0-86445-196-5
  6. Oliver, Bobbie (1 November 2008), "Richard G. Hartley, River of Steel: A History of the Western Australian Goldfields and Agricultural Water Supply.(Book review)", Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (95): 263(3), ISSN 0023-6942
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