User:Otherthinker/Allen Dixon Knott

Allen Dixon Knott was born at Strathearn Private Hospital, Princes Hill on 18 July 1930,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4101628 |title=Family Notices. |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1956) |location=Melbourne, Vic. |date=25 July 1930 |accessdate=22 July 2011 |page=1 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} the son of Joseph Eric Knott and Constance Louise née Williams who had married in Melbourne in 1923.Government of Victoria. Births, Deaths and Marriages. Historical Index. Marriages. KNOTT, Jos Eric and WILLIAMS, Cosntance Louise, 1923/11335. His father, the son of Joseph Knott and Emma Louise née Dixon, was born 1899 in Brunswick, VictoriaGovernment of Victoria. Births, Deaths and Marriages. Historical Index. Births. KNOTT, Jos Eric, 1899/16491.; he interrupted his studies in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne, to enlist on 13 March 1918 in the 4th General (Victorian) Reinforcements, embarking with the 59th Battalion from Sydney, New South Wales, on board RMS Orontes on 5 June 1918 and returned to Australia with the rank of Sergeant on 24 July 1919University of New South Wales, Defence Force Academy. "Australian ANZACs in the Great War 1914-1918," AIF Database (accessed 21 Jul 2011).[http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=167724 entry: KNOTT, Joseph Eric]Government of Australia. National Archives of Australia. "First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920" (digital images, accessed 21 Jul 2011). Series number B2455.; on completing his degree, he began a career in as a civil and municipal engineer which took him and his family from Victoria to New South Wales and finally to Tasmania.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26359756 |title=Mr J. E. Knott Appointed New Hobart City Engineer. |newspaper=The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=27 September 1946 |accessdate=21 July 2011 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

By 1936, the family were living at 27 Crescent Street, HaberfieldCommonwealth of Australia. Joint Electoral Roll for New South Wales. (1936) Division of Martin, sub-division of Haberfield. Knott, Joseph Eric and Constance Louise and Allen began his schooling at Haberfield Public School.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18244488 |title=Rhodes Scholar For Tasmania. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) |location=NSW |date=15 December 1951 |accessdate=21 July 2011 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

The family moved to Hamilton, a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales after Allen's father became City Engineer, Newcastle City Council in January 1941{{cite news|title=New City Engineer : Mr. J. E. Knott, of Ryde|newspaper=The Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners Advocate|date=12 December 1940|page=7}}{{cite news|title=City engineer starts today|newspaper=The Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners Advocate|date=13 January 1941|page=4}} and Allen started at Newcastle Boys High School.

In November 1946, his father commenced as City Engineer, Hobart{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26369463 |title=PERSONAL. |newspaper=The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=20 November 1946 |accessdate=22 July 2011 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} and in 1947, Knott enrolled as an engineering and science undergraduate at the University of Tasmania.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52840525 |title=Rhodes Scholar Selected. |newspaper=Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954) |location=Launceston, Tas. |date=12 December 1951 |accessdate=21 July 2011 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} He completed the science course requirements in 1949 and was graduated as a Bachelor of Science in May 1950.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52717089 |title=DEGREES CONFERRED RECORD FOR UNIVERSITY. |newspaper=Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954) |location=Launceston, Tas. |date=10 May 1950 |accessdate=22 July 2011 |page=8 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} At the end of 1951, he had completed course requirements for for an ordinary degree of bachelor of engineering gathering five prizes with 17 high distinctions and 9 distinctions from his 27 subjects; he proceeded to honours in 1952.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27057779 |title=MR. ALLAN DIXON KNOTT SELECTED 1952 TASMANIAN RHODES SCHOLAR. |newspaper=The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954) |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=12 December 1951 |accessdate=22 July 2011 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}

He was a Senior Member of the American Institute of Industrial Engineers.

In 1955, he married Helen Barbara, daughter of Dr Alex. James Ostinga, a Newcastle obstetrician, and Mary Elizabeth née McCrum.

In 1952, he was the Rhodes Scholar for Tasmania.

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