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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-05-25 human Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes updated 2025-11-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003876b.htm person Purchas Albert AACR2 1825 26 September 1909 Place of Birth Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales Place of Death Kew, Victoria, Australia Engineer Surveyor Architect Albert Purchas, a Melbourne engineer, architect and surveyor, helped to build and equip the factory for the Melbourne Meat Preserving Company, which was founded by Samuel Sextus Ritchie in 1867. As surveyor, he designed the curved alignment of St. Kilda Road around the Domain hill (now the Shrine of Remembrance), created many maps of Melbourne and Suburbs, designed the Melbourne General Cemetery, the Melbourne Zoological Gardens and the Boroondara Cemetery. As an architect, he had at various times partnered with J. H. Grainger and Charles R. Swyer. 1851 1851 Life event - Migrated to Australia 1855 Career event - Member, Philosophical Society of Victoria 1856 1862 Career position - Architect, in partnership with Charles R. Swyer 1857 Career event - Member, Philosophical Institute of Victoria 1864 1864 Career position - Architect and Surveyor, Boroondara Cemetery 1871 1871 Career position - Member, Royal Commission on Silting in Hobson's Bay (V&P LA VIC 1871 A8) 1883 Career event - Foundation Member, Victorian Engineers Association 1887 1888 Career event - President, Royal Victorian Institute of Architects 1909 1909 Buried - Boroondara Cemetery, Victoria Victorian Institute of Engineers (1883 - 1949)

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