Person
Scrivener, Charles Robert (1855 - 1923)
- Born
- 2 November 1855
Windsor, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 26 September 1923
Killara, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Surveyor
Summary
Charles Scrivener was the first Director of Commonwealth Lands and Surveys 1910-1915. Earlier he had been closely involved in the selection and surveying of the site for the Federal capital. After his retirement he engaged in local shire road surveys and assisted a sawmill.
Details
Chronology
- 1875
- Career position - Accountant in Orange, New South Wales
- 1876
- Career position - Cadet 'geodetic computer' with the Trigonometrical branch of the New South Wales Department of Lands
- 1877
- Career position - Passed the draughtsman's examination
- 1877 - 1879
- Career position - Worked as a Surveyor's apprentice
- 1880
- Career position - Became a licensed Surveyor
- 1888 - c. 1895
- Career position - Surveyor in Maitland for the New South Wales Department of Lands
- 1891
- Career position - Carried out the re-survey and definition of the boundaries of the Gloucester estate of the Australian Agricultural Co.
- 1896
- Career position - Acting District Surveyor for the Wagga Wagga district
- 1900
- Career position - Surveyed Buckley's Crossing (Dalgety) for the Federal capital site
- 1904
- Career position - Prepared contour maps of Buckley's Crossing
- 1906 - 1908
- Career position - District Surveyor for the Hay district
- 1909
- Career position - Surveyed the Yass-Canberra district to determine the best city site and water-catchment territory
- 1910 - 1915
- Career position - First Director of Commonwealth Lands and Surveys
Archival resources
Canberra and District Historical Society
- Charles Robert Scrivener - Records, 1875 - 1923; Canberra and District Historical Society. Details
National Archives of Australia, National Office
- Charles Robert Scrivener - Records, 1910 - 1915, M2580; National Archives of Australia, National Office. Details
Published resources
Books
- Birtles, Terry, Charles Robert Scrivener. The Surveyor Who Sited Australia's National Capital Twice (North Melbourne: Arcadia, 2013), 248 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Birtles, Terry G., 'Scrivener, Charles Robert (1855-1923), Surveyor' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Geoffrey Serle, ed., vol. 11 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1988), pp. 552-553. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110567b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Wood, Greg, 'Charles Scrivenor: the Surveyor as Town Planner', National Library Magazine (2010), 12-5. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1066040. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/94709231. Details
- 'Scrivener, C R (18551102-19230926)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-628754. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 2 March 2018
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