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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2021-12-09 human Ken McInnes updated 2025-12-03 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006842b.htm person Barrow John AACR2 c. 1809 27 August 1872 Place of Death Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia Civil engineer Surveyor After arriving in South Australia in 1850, Barrow became the Surveyor for the Southern District of the Central Roads Board. He went to the gold diggings in Victoria in 1852-3. From 1853, he was an Assistant Engineer and Road Surveyor to the Western District of Victoria, and surveyed the main roads, the ports and harbours and supervised the construction of jetties at Portland, Port Fairy (Belfast), and Warrnambool. He was appointed Engineer to the Portland Road District in 1856, and later the Portland Shire. In 1867, he resigned and went to Mount Gambier, where he proposed designs for a harbour at Port Macdonnell, and a scheme to supply water to Mount Gambier from its Blue Lake. His son James John Barrow CE (1840 -1901) was also a surveyor and engineer in the south east district of South Australia.

Major Works:
* South Road, Adelaide 1850-52;
* Survey of Port Fairy, Belfast. [PP Vic. 1853/54 C.38a];
* Survey of Lady Bay, Warrnambool. [PP Vic.. 1854 C.38];
* Survey of Portland Bay [PP Vic. 1854/1855 C.12];
* Report on Improvements to Port Macdonnell, South Australia 1868;
* Report on Water Supply to Mount Gambier 1868;
* Map of Mount Gambier, 1869.

See also:
* "Report of the Select Committee ... on ... Warrnambool Harbor" RSC 1856-7 (6) [LC V&P Vic. 1856-7. S1. pp.469-498]

[He may have been granted a "Certificate of Competency as Engineer and Surveyor (CE)" under the Shires Statute and Boroughs Statute 1869 VIC, but no record has been located.]

1850 1850 Life event - Migrated to South Australia from England 1850 1852 Career position - Engineer, South Road, Central Road Board, South Australia 1852 1856 Career position - Assistant Engineer, Western District, Public Works Department, Victoria 1856 1866 Career position - Engineer, Portland Road District, Victoria 1866 1867 Career position - Shire Engineer, Portland Shire, Victoria 1868 1872 Career position - Engineer, Mount Gambier, South Australia 1872 1872 Buried - Lake Terrace Cemetery, Mount Gambier, South Australia 'Barrow, John', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Barrow, John Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book: Some Public Works Engineers in Victoria in the Nineteenth Century Cumming, D. A. Some Public Works Engineers in Victoria in the Nineteenth Century Melbourne University of Melbourne, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 1985 Parliamentary paper: Ports of Belfast and Warrnambool : part return to address Mr. Mark Nicholson 9th September 1853 Barrow, John Ports of Belfast and Warrnambool : part return to address Mr. Mark Nicholson 9th September 1853 Melbourne John Ferres, Government Printer 1854 Newspaper Article: Death of an Old Colonist Death of an Old Colonist 1872 Border Watch (Mount Gambier, S.A.) 2, col.4 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 Edited Book: Nineteenth century engineers in the colony of Victoria Alsop, Peter F. B. Nineteenth century engineers in the colony of Victoria Geelong North, Victoria Author 2002