| 词条 | A. S. Kenyon |
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Alfred Stephen Kenyon (7 December[1] 1867 – 14 May 1943), generally known as A. S. Kenyon or Stephen Kenyon[1] was an Australian civil engineer and polymath. HistoryKenyon was born in Homebush, Victoria the only son of Alfred Henderson Kenyon (c. 1837 – 15 September 1921) and his wife Agnes Fleming Kenyon, née Agnew[2] ( – 10 December 1919)[3] Kenyon's father started in Australia as a farmer in the Wimmera district, later a bookseller and dealer in artists' materials,[4][5] chess enthusiast and amateur historian[6] Kenyon was home-schooled for his early education,[1] then in 1881 the family moved to Highett Street, Richmond, and he enrolled at nearby St Stephen's Grammar School, and in 1884 he entered Ormond College, Melbourne University, to study civil engineering. He joined the Victorian Public Works Department in 1887, and the following year was appointed to the Victorian Water Supply Department, where he was responsible for water supply works in the northern Mallee regions. Later he was engineer in charge of opening up the Middle Mallee, organising the water supply for the North Mallee, and, after The Great War, of clearing the Red Cliffs irrigation area for repatriation of returned soldiers. He also supervised the construction of other works, including the Goulburn levees and works at Koo-Wee-Rup, Cardinia, Tresco, Mystic Park, Merbein, and Nyah. In 1932 Kenyon was appointed a commissioner of the Victorian Water Supply Commission. He acted as part-time curator of the Coin Room in the Melbourne Public Library[9] until his retirement in 1935, when he made his work as numismatist to the Library a fulltime occupation.[7] Other interestsWhile working in country regions of Victoria, Kenyon was able to make a close study of Australian Aborigines, and became widely consulted on their lives and traditions. He was also an accepted authority on the history of rural Victoria. Institutions of which he was a member include:
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RecognitionThe A. S. Kenyon Library, Red Cliffs, was named for him. A portrait of him by Graham Thorley, short-listed for the 1940 Archibald Prize, hangs there.[2] FamilyKenyon married Alexandrine Amelie Leontine Delepine ( – 20 August 1940) on 2 April 1895; they had one daughter:
Justine was the author of The Aboriginal Word Book,[12] a popular source of house names in the first half of the twentieth century, when that practice was fashionable. They had a home at Lower Plenty Road, Heidelberg, where he died; his remains were interred in the Heidelberg cemetery. Further reading
References1. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12117750 |title="That Reminds Me..." |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=28,906 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=15 April 1939 |accessdate=22 February 2019 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kenyon, Alfred}}2. ^1 {{cite book|author=Ronald McNicoll|title=Australian Dictionary of Biography|chapter=Kenyon, Alfred Stephen (1867–1943)|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kenyon-alfred-stephen-6936/text12035|year=1983|access-date=22 February 2019}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4638210 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=22,891 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=13 December 1919 |accessdate=22 February 2019 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4654238 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=23,439 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=17 September 1921 |accessdate=22 February 2019 |page=24 |via=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242329109 |title=German Imprint on Goods |newspaper=The Herald (Melbourne) |issue=12,463 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=8 February 1916 |accessdate=22 February 2019 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}} 6. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article120959823 |title=Chinkapook. |newspaper=Quambatook Times |volume=V, |issue=300 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=22 November 1916 |accessdate=22 February 2019 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} 7. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11338897 |title=Death of Mr. A. S. Kenyon |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=30,176 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=15 May 1943 |accessdate=23 December 2018 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} 8. ^1 {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article243216932 |title=Personal |newspaper=The Herald (Melbourne) |issue=17,649 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=7 December 1933 |accessdate=22 February 2019 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}} 9. ^{{Citation | author1=Kenyon, A. S. (Alfred Stephen) | title=The story of Australia : its discoverers and founders | publication-date=1937 | publisher=Geo. A. List for the Corio Press | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19220017 | accessdate=22 February 2019 }} 10. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://portphillippioneersgroup.org.au/pppg5fs.htm|title=Billis & Kenyon: Pioneer Pastoral Historians|publisher=Port Phillip Pioneers Group|access-date=26 February 2019}} 11. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224442868 |title=Victorian Master Farmer |newspaper=The Weekly Times (Melbourne) |issue=3762 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=4 November 1939 |accessdate=22 February 2019 |page=12 |via=National Library of Australia}} 12. ^{{Cite book | author=Kenyon, Justine | title=The Aboriginal Word Book | date=1930 }} 7 : 1867 births|1843 births|Australian civil engineers|Australian curators|Australian numismatists|Australian anthropologists|1943 deaths |
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