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Henry Ashworth
1871–1903
An Australian civil engineer with a side interest in political reform, he is remembered both as the co-designer of Melbourne's Flinders Street Station and as a co-author of an early book on proportional representation.
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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 many years with Victorian Railways. He formed the partnership Fawcett and Ashworth with James Fawcett, and their design won the competition for Melbourne's Flinders Street railway station.
Ashworth also wrote beyond his engineering work. He is credited as co-author, with T. R. Ashworth, of Proportional Representation Applied to Party Government: A New Electoral System, showing an interest in public questions as well as practical design.
He died from illness in 1903 at just 32, before Flinders Street Station was completed. The surviving sources found here do not provide much personal detail, but they do show a brief life linked to one of Australia's best-known railway buildings.