Hunt, Henry Ambrose (1866-1946)

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meteorologist; public servant; public service/statutory authority head; Meteorologist and Science administrator
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HUNT, HENRY AMBROSE (1866-1946), meteorologist, was born on 7 February 1866 in London, son of Edwin Jackson Hunt, marine engineer, and his wife Annie, née Padley. After three years with his family in St Petersburg, where his father managed the Baltic Ironworks and designed engines for battleships, he returned to England and was educated at Dartford Grammar School, Kent, where he won a scholarship in mathematics.

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Henry Ambrose Hunt was the first Commonwealth Meteorologist of the Bureau of Meteorology (1907-1931), and co-authored, along with E.T. Quayle and T. Griffith Taylor, the first text-book on Australian meteorology, Climate and Weather of Australia, 1913.

Hunt began his meteorological career as an assistant to H. C. Russell in Sydney. He had already won an international prize for his work on the Southerly Buster when appointed as Australia's first Commonwealth Meteorologist in 1907. He was immediately despatched on a world trip to assess the latest developments in meteorology. Although he provided outstanding scientific leadership to the early Bureau, he fought a long and difficult battle through the period of the First World War and the Great Depression to obtain the resources needed to build the networks and scientific basis for Australia's meteorological services. A Hundred Years of Science and Service, Bureau of Meteorology, 2001.

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  1. Hunt, Henry Ambrose (1866-1946), MeteorologistAustralian Dictionary of Biography Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 9 405 : Hunt, Henry Ambrose (1866-1946), Meteorologist
    Walsh, G. P.
    [1983]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
  2. Hunt, Henry AmbrosePhysics in Australia to 1945 R.W. Home, with the assistance of Paula J. Needham : Hunt, Henry Ambrose
    [1995]
    Published: Australian Science Archives Project
    Series: http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/physics/P002230p.htm
  3. Federation and Meteorology
    Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
    [2001]
    Series: http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/

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