Walter Heywood Bryan
| Walter Heywood Bryan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
26 August 1891 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Died | 10 March 1966 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Fields | Geologist |
| Alma mater | Ipswich Grammar School, University of Queensland |
| Notable awards | Military Cross |
Walter Heywood (W.H.) Bryan was an Australian geologist, educator and decorated military veteran. He founded the University of Queensland Seismology Station, and was the first student at the University of Queensland to receive a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degree. He served with distinction during World War I.
Bryan was born in Taringa, Brisbane in 1891. He was educated at Ipswich Grammar School. After high school he enrolled in the newly formed University of Queensland in 1911 and graduated with a BSc in 1914. He would take his Honours in Geology and Mineralogy, studying the petrology of Enoggera granite. He spent a short time in the Queensland Geological Survey in 1914–15 mapping the Maryborough basin and the petrology of the Gympie Permian. He was awarded his MSc from UQ while he was overseas serving in the A.I.F.
Bryan enlisted in the AIF in 1915 and served as a gunner at Gallipoli and in France. He served at Gallipoli, in Egypt and on the Western Front, with 1 Division Trench Mortar Batteries and Artillery. He was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous heroism under fire. He would be the Vice-Chairman of the University of Queensland's War Memorial Committee following WW1.
In 1919 following WW1, he married fellow Australian, Myee Harrison, in London.
Bryan did postgraduate study at the University of Cambridge for a year in 1919. He returned to Australia and was appointed a lecturer at the University of Queensland in geology in 1921. He gave many public lectures in Brisbane on geological topics, including the origins of the earth, coral reefs and prehistoric man. His geological interests were strongest in the origin of and the relationship between continents and oceans. He was President of the Royal Society of Queensland in 1925. In 1926, he received his D.Sc., the first student of the University of Queensland to do so. His D.Sc. thesis would be on earth movements in Queensland. When Professor Henry Caselli Richards was on study leave to the U.S. in the mid 1930s, Bryan acted as Professor in his stead, answering questions related to earthquakes in particular. Bryan and Richards would have a productive working relationship, co-publishing a number of publications on the Silverwood-Lucky Valley area and on the Brisbane Tuffs.
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