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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2025-03-25 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002115b.htm person Evans George William AACR2 5 January 1780 16 October 1852 Place of Death Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Surveyor Explorer George Evans arrived in New South Wales in 1802 and was appointed acting surveyor-general in 1803. He surveyed and explored the Warragamba River and the Illawarra and was the first European to cross the Great Dividing Range. He was appointed Deputy Surveyor General in Tasmania in 1811 and was responsible for one of the first complete charts of Tasmania in 1820. He was a competent artist, and published "Geographical, Historical and Topographical description of Van Diemen's Land …" in 1822.

Born England, 5 January 1780. Died Hobart, 16 October 1852. Short apprenticeship with an engineer and architect and some elementary training in surveying, Naval Store-Keeper's Department, Table Bay 1798-1802, store-keeper in charge of the receipt and issue of grain at Parramatta 1802-03, acting surveyor-general 1804-05, farming, Hawkesbury 1805-09, surveying, New South Wales 1809-12, deputy-surveyor of lands, Van Diemen's Land 1812-25, recalled to Sydney 1813 to try to find a passage into the interior (on this expedition he was the first European to cross the Great Dividing Range), in 1815 to act as guide on a tour of the country he had discovered in 1813, in 1817 to act as second-in-command to Oxley (q.v.) in an expedition setting out from Bathurst to determine the course of the Lachlan River and in 1818 to fill the position of second-in-command to Oxley in an attempt to trace the Macquarie River to its termination, art teacher, England 1826-32, bookseller and stationer, then drawing master , The King's School, then housed in Harrisford, George Street, Parramatta while his wife conducted a finishing school for young ladies, Hobart 1844-52.

He is commemorated by statues in Bathurst, Melbourne, Adelaide and the Mitchell Library, Sydney.

 Oxley, John Joseph William Molesworth (1784 - 1828)

Second-in-charge on Oxley's expeditions along the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers 1817-1818

 Weatherburn, Alan Keith (1911 - )

George Evans was the grandfather of Alan Weatherburn

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 Evans, George William (1780-1852)

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 'Evans, George William', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Evans, George William Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Evans, George William (1780-1852), surveyor and explorer Weatherburn, A. K. Evans, George William (1780-1852), surveyor and explorer Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1966 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 1: 1788 - 1850 A-H Douglas Pike 359-360 Book: John Oxley: a new perspective Tickle, Robert John Oxley: a new perspective Wauchope, N.S.W. Veritas Archaeology and History Service 2018 Book: Tracking and Mapping the Explorers, vol. 2: the Macquarie River, Warrumbungle Mts, Pilliga Scrub, Liverpool Plains, Apsley Falls, Hastings River, Port Macquarie 1818, Oxley and Evans Whitehead, John Tracking and Mapping the Explorers, vol. 2: the Macquarie River, Warrumbungle Mts, Pilliga Scrub, Liverpool Plains, Apsley Falls, Hastings River, Port Macquarie 1818, Oxley and Evans Coonabarabran (N.S.W.) John Whitehead 2004 Book: Tracking and Mapping the Explorers, vol. 1: the Lachlan River exploration, 1817, Oxley - Evans - Cunningham Whitehead, John Tracking and Mapping the Explorers, vol. 1: the Lachlan River exploration, 1817, Oxley - Evans - Cunningham Coonabarabran (N.S.W.) John Whitehead 2003 Book: Dictionary of Australian biography Serle, Percival Dictionary of Australian biography Sydney Angus & Robertson 1949 Journal Article: History of the Institution of Surveyors, Tasmania Anon History of the Institution of Surveyors, Tasmania 1967 Australian Surveyor 21 7 205-212 George William Evans - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales George William Evans - Records A6996 1780 - 1852 Autographed typescript carbon copy of 'George William Evans the father of Australian exploration' by A.K. Weatherburn 1960 with portraits, illustrations and maps [148 pages, A6996]. 148 pages Edmund Morris Miller - Records Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales Edmund Morris Miller - Records ML MSS 1054 1958 Typescript with additions and corrections entitled 'First two books on Tasmanian Geography by C. Jeffreys (1820) and G.W. Evans (1822); with Comments on Jeffreys' plagiarism of Evans' work and W.C. Wentworth's contributions to it', with short biographical notes on Jeffreys and Evans 1958 [ML MSS 1054].