Kenneth Gillbanks'Ken'Tinley Industrial research chemist

摘要

Ken Tinley ASTC,FRACI CChem passed away on 13 June 2020 aged 92 years.Ken had a Long career as a research chemist in the building products industry and was an active member of the RACI in the 1980s and 90s.Ken was born in Brisbane on 13 March 1928 to Harold and Annie Tinley.He was the much younger brother of Hazel,who had her parents to herself for eight years.Ken spent his childhood in Greenslopes,attending Brisbane Grammar School.The family moved to Sydney at the beginning of World War II when Harold was appointed auditor to the Commonwealth Bank in its then capacity as central bank(precursor to the Reserve Bank).The family lived in Mosman and Ken went to Sydney Grammar.Ken aLways considered himself a Sydney citizen with a Queenslander's view of essential things such as the joy of drinking sarsaparilla and choosing not to swim in what he considered to be the cold waters of Sydney.