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Henry Ashworth
1871–1903
Best remembered as the engineer behind Melbourne’s famous Flinders Street Station design, this Australian railway man left a lasting mark despite dying young. His name survives through the 1899 competition-winning partnership of Fawcett and Ashworth.
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Proportional Representation Applied to Party Government: A New Electoral System
by T. R. (Thomas Ramsden) Ashworth, Henry Ashworth
About the author
Born in Australia in 1871, Henry Patrick Chandos Ashworth worked as a civil engineer and spent much of his career with the Victorian Railways.
He is chiefly remembered for his partnership with James Fawcett. Together they won the 1899 design competition for Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station, one of the city’s best-known landmarks. Ashworth died in 1903, before the station was completed.
Although little else about his life is widely documented, his contribution to one of Australia’s most recognizable public buildings has kept his name in view long after his early death at just 32.