Richard Gordon Hartley (30 June 1939 – 2016) was an Australian civil engineer, and a historian of the mining and engineering industry.
Harley was born in the United Kingdom.[1][2] He attained an honours degree from Murdoch University in 1992, with studies focusing on gold mining in the early twentieth century Goldfields of Western Australia.[3] Continuing his examination of developments in this technology, he obtained a PhD from Murdoch in 1998.[4]
His work on the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme and Mundaring Weir was published in 2007, the centenary of the scheme. It has been the most thorough work completed on the scheme, involving extensive archival research and extensive interviews.[5][6]