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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created human Helen Cohn updated 2025-12-03 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005549b.htm person Frome Edward Charles AACR2 7 January 1802 1890 Place of Birth Gibraltar, Spain Place of Death Ewell, Surrey, United Kingdom Surveyor Edward Frome entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, at age 15, being commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1825 and retiring with the rank of General in 1877. From 1827 to 1833 he served on the construction of the Rideau Canal in Canada. His Outline of the method of conducting a trigonometrical survey (London, 1840) went through four editions. In 1839 Frome was appointed as South Australia's third Surveyor General for a 10-year term. On arrival in South Australia he was required to give priority to the special surveys which entitled large buyers to the pick of the land throughout the province. By 1841, many roads and secondary towns were marked and a trigonometrical survey of the limits of settlement was completed. After leaving South Australia in 1849 he served with the Royal Engineers in further overseas postings, becoming Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey in 1869. Lake Frome in South Australia is named in his honour. 1825 1825 Career event - Commissioned in the Royal Engineers 1839 1849 Career position - Surveyor General, South Australia 1849 1849 Life event - Left South Australia Australian Joint Copying Project, National Library of Australia; and State Library of New South Wales (1945 - 1993)

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 South Australian Surveyor General's Office and the Survey and Crown Lands Department, Colony and State of South Australia (1836 - 1917)

Surveyor General 1839 - 1849.

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 Frome, Edward Charles (18020107-18901231)

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 'Frome, Edward Charles', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Frome, Edward Charles Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Instructions for the Interior Survey of South Australia Frome, Edward Charles Instructions for the Interior Survey of South Australia 2011 South Australian Geographical Journal 110 92-6 Edited Book: They built South Australia : engineers, technicians, manufacturers, contractors and their work Cumming, D. A.; Moxham, G. C. They built South Australia : engineers, technicians, manufacturers, contractors and their work Adelaide D.A. Cumming and G.C Moxham 1986