P006783 revised AU-VU:EOAS Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Corporate Body created 2020-01-21 human Elizabeth Daniels updated 2026-01-07 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006783b.htm State Archives and Records NSW Agency ID: AGY-1773 corporateBody New South Wales Surveyor General [I] Colony of New South Wales AACR2 1788 1887 Regulatory Body Surveying or Mapping Established in 1788 the Surveyor General [I] (1788 - 1887) was responsible for the mapping and surveying of land in and around the new settlement of Botany Bay and later colony of New South Wales. In 1856 the Surveyor General's Department came under the ministerial control of the Department of Lands and Public Works (later Lands). White, George Boyle (1802 - 1876)

Assistant surveyor, 1827 - 1838; Surveyor, 1838 - 1853.

 Roe, John Septimus (1797 - 1878)

Surveyor 1817 - 1829.

 Dangar, Henry (1796 - 1861)

Assistant to the Surveyor General of New South Wales.

 Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone (1792 - 1855)

Surveyor General 1828 - 1855

 Grimes, Charles (1772 - 1858)

Surveyor General 1802 - 1804 and 1806 - 1808.

 Alt, Augustus Theodore Henry (1731 - 1815)

First Surveyor General of New South Wales 1788 -1802

 Burnett, James Charles (1815 - 1854)

James Burnett was a clerk in the New South Wales Surveyor-General's Department, 1833, and became the Surveyor General in the Moreton Bay District Survey Office 1844 - c1854

 Adams, Philip Francis (1828 - 1901)

Surveyor General, 1868 - 1887

 Lennox, David (1788 - 1873)

David Lennox held multiple roles within the Surveyor General [I] department (1788 - 1887) including Sub-Inspector of Roads (1832 - 1833), Superintendent of Bridges (1833- 1843), District surveyor to the Parramatta Council (1843 -1844) and Superintendent of Bridges for the Port Phillip District (1844 - 1853).

 Oxley, John Joseph William Molesworth (1784 - 1828)

Surveyor General 1812 - 1828

 Hoddle, Robert (1794 - 1881)

Senior surveyor for the Port Philip District (Victoria), from 1837, at that time part of the Colony of New South Wales, and designed a number of settlements including Melbourne, Geelong and Williamstown.

 Colony of New South Wales (1788 - 1901) New South Wales Department of Lands, Colony and State of New South Wales (1859 - 1981) New South Wales Department of Lands and Public Works, Colony of New South Wales (1856 - 1859) 'New South Wales Surveyor General [I]', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology New South Wales Surveyor General [I] Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Sails to Satelites: the Surveyors General of NSW (1786-2007) Kass, Terry Sails to Satelites: the Surveyors General of NSW (1786-2007) Bathurst, N.S.W. New South Wales Department of Lands 2008 Resource Section: Agency AGY-1773: Surveyor General [I] 20 Jan 1788 to 29 Mar 1887 State Records Authority of New South Wales Agency AGY-1773: Surveyor General [I] 20 Jan 1788 to 29 Mar 1887 Sydney State Records Authority New South Wales