William Henry Warren (2 February 1852 – 9 January 1926) was an Australian engineer and twice president of the Royal Society of New South Wales.
Warren entered the service of the London and North-Western Railway Company in 1872 and spent five years at its workshops at Wolverton.
[1] Warren migrated to Australia in 1881 and entered the NSW Public Works Department on 9 May 1881[1] and was in charge of the supervision of roads, bridges and sewerage.
[citation needed] Warren was also doing a lot of work for the government; in 1885, he sat on the royal commission on railway bridges, and in 1892 was a member of the committee of inquiry on Baldwin locomotives.
[citation needed] Warren was a member of the council of the Royal Society of New South Wales for many years (president in 1892 and 1902), was inaugural president of the Institution of Engineers of Australia, an Australian representative of the Institution of Civil Engineers in Great Britain, and a council member of the International Society for the Testing of Materials.
[6] Ernest William Warren (1875–1944) was the first son of the marriage, was born in October 1875 in Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Lancashire, and was baptised on 5 December 1875 at St Savior's Church in the same town.
[7] After arriving in Australia, and whilst living at Madeley in London Street, Enmore, Ernest Warren was enrolled as a Day Boy at Newington College.
[12] For a decade from the mid-teens until the mid-20s he held the position of lecturer-in-charge of the department of physics at Sydney Technical College and then returned to the law.