Peter F. B. Alsop

Peter F. B. Alsop
Born
Peter Findon Bethune Alsop[1]

13 June 1935
Geelong, Australia
Died6 September 2014 (aged 79)
Geelong, Australia
NationalityAustralian
CitizenshipAustralia
OccupationEngineer
Engineering career
DisciplineCivil engineer
InstitutionsCountry Roads Board

Peter Findon Bethune Alsop (13 June 1935 – 6 September 2014) was an Australian engineer and historian from Geelong, Victoria. He was responsible for researching and preserving many important road bridges and historic buildings in Geelong and the Victorian Western District.[2]

Alsop was an engineer with the Country Roads Board for the Geelong District. While in that position, he argued successfully in a number of cases, that new, improved road alignments should be provided when historic bridges were to be replaced, which would save the bridge at the same time.

Alsop was on the committee of Engineering Heritage Victoria (which later was merged with the Institution of Engineers Australia), and the National Trust of Australia (Victoria).

Alsop was president of the Geelong Historical Society from 1984 to 2007.[3] His large corpus of publications has been indexed and referenced by the State Library of Victoria.[4]

  1. ^ "List of Members". Transactions of the Newcomen Society. 40 (1): 187–202. September 1970. doi:10.1179/tns.1967.015. ISSN 0372-0187.
  2. ^ Geelong & district blog, Susie Zada, 'Peter F B Alsop', 17 September 2014
  3. ^ "Alsop, Peter". Geelong Advertiser. 20 September 2014. Archived from the original on 16 October 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  4. ^ Alsop, Peter F. B; Geelong Historical Society (2012), A checklist of reports, essays and articles written by Peter F.B. Alsop Civil Engineer and sometime president of the Geelong Historical Society published between 1959 and 2010, Geelong Historical Society, retrieved 20 April 2015