Person
Murphy, Brian Thomas (1928 - 1983)
- Born
- 1928
Victoria, Australia - Died
- 29 November 1983
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Surveyor
Summary
Brian Murphy was Reader-in-Charge, and Head of the Surveying Department, University of Melbourne in the 1960s - 1970s. In 1960, he was the first person awarded a Master of Surveying from any Australian University, and was a member of the Surveyors Board of Victoria from 1959 - 1976.
Details
Chronology
- 1945 -
- Career position - Junior draughtsman, Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Victoria
- 1949
- Career event - Student Member, Institution of Surveyors, Victoria
- 1953
- Career event - Associate Member, Institution of Surveyors, Victoria
- 1954
- Career event - Licensed Surveyor, Victoria
- 1954
- Education - Bachelor of Surveying (BSurv), University of Melbourne [One of two in the first graduating class]
- 1954 - 1955
- Career position - Surveyor, Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Victoria
- 1955 - 1960
- Career position - Lecturer, Surveying, University of Melbourne
- 1956
- Career event - Member, Institution of Surveyors, Victoria
- 1959 - 1976
- Career position - Member, Surveyors Board of Victoria [Representative of the University of Melbourne]
- 1960
- Education - Master of Surveying (MSurv), University of Melbourne [The first such degree from any Australian University]
- 1960 - 1965
- Career position - Senior Lecturer, Surveying, University of Melbourne
- 1965 -
- Career position - Head of Department of Surveying, University of Melbourne
- 1965
- Career event - Fellow, Institution of Surveyors, Victoria
- 1966 -
- Career position - Reader-in-Charge, Department of Surveying, University of Melbourne
- 1970 - 1972
- Career position - Federal Councillor, The Institution of Surveyors, Australia
- 1974
- Career position - President, Victoria Division, The Institution of Surveyors, Australia
- 1977 - 1982
- Career position - Councillor, City of Hawthorn
- 1983
- Buried - Templestowe Cemetery
Related entries
Archival resources
The University of Melbourne Archives
- Brian Thomas Murphy - Records, 1948 - 1952; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
Published resources
Journal Articles
- 'Brian Murphy - a great loss', Traverse (1983), 1. Details
- 'Obituary - Brian Thomas Murphy', The Australian Surveyor, 32 (1) (1984), 69-70. Details
Resources
- 'Murphy, Brian Thomas', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1473476. Details
Theses
- Murphy, Brian Thomas, 'Papers on geodetic survey adjustment', MSurv thesis, University of Melbourne, 1960, 52 pp, https://librarysearch.unimelb.edu.au/permalink/61UMB_INST/bagdsf/alma991034403109709604. Details
Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 18 August 2026
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