{{Short description|Australian civil engineer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Use Australian English|date=April 2018}} thumb|Harding Frew, 1926 '''Alison Eavis Harding Frew''' (1883–1952), known professionally as "Harding Frew", was an Australian civil engineer primarily concerned with engineering projects in Queensland, his home state.
==Early life== Alison Eavis Harding Frew was born in 1883 in Roma, Queensland, the son of Robert Dickson Alison Frew (a civil engineer) and his wife Elizabeth Constance (née Harding).<ref name=obit/><ref>Queensland Registrar-General Index of Births 1883/C4785</ref> He was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and University of Sydney.<ref name=obit/><ref name=wedding/>
He married his cousin Beatrice Doris Harding in St John's Anglican Cathedral in Brisbane on Wednesday 13 September 1911.<ref name=wedding>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112041286 |title=WEDDING. |newspaper=The Queensland Times |location=Ipswich, Queensland |date=15 September 1911 |accessdate=5 February 2015 |page=3 Edition: DAILY |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>Queensland Registrar-General Index of Marriages 1911/B10682</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Ancestry user:pjreill|title=Family tree: Reilly's of Australia|url=http://trees.ancestry.com.au/tree/3191525/family?cfpid=25328620244&selnode=1|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=5 February 2015}}</ref>
==Engineering career== Harding Frew began his career in the Queensland Railways Department in 1908. In 1911, he established a private practice where he focussed on municipal projects such as:<ref name=obit/> * wharves * bridges * electricity supplies * water and sewerage services He consulted to over 100 local government authorities in Queensland in addition to work in New South Wales and Victoria.<ref name=obit/>
==Projects==
Harding Frew built over 80 bridges throughout Queensland, including:<ref name=obit>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50518428 |title=Harding Frew, noted engineer, dead at 69. |newspaper=The Courier-Mail |location=Brisbane |date=5 July 1952 |accessdate=5 February 2015 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> *William Jolly Bridge, Brisbane *Julibee Bridge, Innisfail *Granville Bridge, Maryborough *Caboolture Bridge *Hornibrook Bridge *Redcliffe Jetty *Innisfail City Plan
Outside of Queensland, he was involved in the construction of: *Pyrmount Power House, Sydney *Armidale Electricity System
He was responsible for water supply projects in:<ref name=obit/> * Atherton * Emerald * Mitchell * Mackay
==William Jolly Bridge==
This is his most notable project. Erected as a series of bow-string sections it was either the fourth or sixth crossing of the river in Brisbane. Built of concrete sprayed steel, (gunite), a Swiss system, and completed in 1932, it was renamed from the Grey Street Bridge to the William Jolly Bridge, in 1955, after an erstwhile Lord Mayor of Brisbane.
==Later life== Harding Frew died at his home in Adamson Street, Eagle Junction on 4 July 1952;<ref>Queensland Registrar-General Index of Deaths 1952/B38762</ref> he was 69 years old.<ref name=obit/>
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== External links == {{Commons category|Harding Frew}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20041013192612/http://www.epa.qld.gov.au/projects/heritage/index.cgi?place=602340&back=1 Information on his life] *[http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0004720 The William Jolly Bridge] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080411162131/http://www.cassowarycoastnews.com/id850.html Innisfail City Plan]
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