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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes updated 2024-12-17 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002482b.htm person Percival Arthur ISO AACR2 10 February 1879 27 January 1964 Place of Birth Dunedin, New Zealand Place of Death Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia Surveyor Arthur Percival was Surveyor-general and Chief Property Officer for the Commonwealth, responsible for all national surveys and property acquisitions from 1929. His earlier pioneer surveying work included defining the catchments and headworks for Melbourne's water supply for the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (1902-09); producing the contour base map used in the design competition for the Federal capital (1910); defining the boundaries of the Australian Capital Territory; and laying out Canberra and surveying dam sites on the Cotter and Queanbeyan rivers.

After arriving in Australia in 1897, Arthur Percival was engaged on mining surveys and engineering works in New South Wales and Queensland. In 1902 he joined the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works. During World War I he surveyed defence establishments in New South Wales and Victoria, carried out hydrographic work in Spencer Gulf, South Australia, and reported on land values for war service homes subdivisions. Next Percival was appointed Officer-in-charge of the property and survey branches of the Department of Home and Territories in Melbourne (1920-1929). This was followed by a post as Commonwealth surveyor-general and chief property officer in Canberra 1929-1944. After his retirement (1944?) he was retained as an adviser on land transfers for Garden Island naval facilities.

1897 1897 Life event - Migrated to Australia (New South Wales?) 1902 1909 Career position - Surveyor, Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works 1910 c. 1914 Career position - Surveyor, Federal Territory, Home Affairs 1914 1919 Career position - Surveyor, defence establishments across Australia 1920 1929 Career position - Officer-in-charge, Property and Survey Branch, Department of Home and Territories in Melbourne 1927 1927 Career event - Foundation member, Canberra Artists' Society 1928 1929 Career position - President, Victorian Institute of Surveyors 1929 1944 Career position - Commonwealth Surveyor-General and Chief Property Officer in Canberra 1930 1930 Career position - Advisor to the Australian Survey Committee 1930 1930 Career event - Associate Member (AMIEAust), Institution of Engineers Australia 1930 1934 Career position - President, Canberra Artists' Society 1933 1939 Career position - Member, Australian Commonwealth Shipping Board 1934 1934 Career position - Advisor to the Australian Survey Committee [urging a national geodetic and topographical survey] 1936 1939 Career position - Chairman, Australian Commonwealth Shipping Board 1938 1938 Award - Companion of the Imperial Service Order (ISO) - Commonwealth Surveyor-General's Department 1939 1939 Career position - Chairman, Inter-departmental sub-committee on the aerial photographic survey of Australia 1943 1944 Career position - Chairman, Canberra Advisory Council 1945 1950 Career position - President, Canberra Artists' Society Victorian Institute of Surveyors (VIS) (1874 - 1952)

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 'Percival, Arthur', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Percival, Arthur Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: The selection of Canberra as the capital site Percival, Arthur The selection of Canberra as the capital site Sydney ANZAAS 1939 Report of the twenty-fourth meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, Canberra meeting, January, 1939 Margaret Walkom 193 Newspaper Article: Obituary : Arthur Percival - Pioneer Surveyor Anon Obituary : Arthur Percival - Pioneer Surveyor 1964 The Canberra Times 2