Flashcards: Australian surveyors

Lawrence Allen Wells (30 April 1860, Yallum Station near Penola, South Australia – 1938) was an Australian explorer.

Sir Augustus Charles Gregory, KCMG (1 August 1819 – 25 June 1905) was an English-born Australian explorer.

Walker Rannie Davidson (1808 – 20 November 1876) was a Surveyor General of New South Wales, (then a colony, now a state of Australia)

Gilbert Rotherdale McMinn CE, SM, FRGS (1841 – 18 October 1924) was an Australian surveyor born in Ireland, noted for his work in the Northern Territory.

John Ewing (6 October 1863 – 30 November 1933) was an Australian politician who served in both houses of the Parliament of Western Australia.

Baron Augustus Theodore Harman Alt von Hesse-Kassel (1731 – 9 January 1815) was a British soldier and Australia's first Surveyor-General.

Lamont H. Young (1851–1880) was an assistant geological surveyor for the New South Wales Mines Department.

William Wedge Darke (1810–1890) was an Australian colonist and surveyor, the son of John Darke of Hereford and Elizabeth Darke, née Wedge, and younger brother of John Charles Darke and a nephew of John Helder Wedge from whom he learnt his profession.

George Henry John Bellingham (15 February 1862 – 28 July 1932) was an Australian politician who was a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1900 to 1908, representing South Province.

Charles Robert Scrivener (2 November 1855 – 26 September 1923) was an Australian surveyor, and the person who surveyed numerous sites in New South Wales for the selection of a site for the Australian Capital Territory and Australia's capital city, Canberra.

William Patrick Auld (27 May 1840 – 2 September 1912), usually known by his initials or as "Patrick", was an Adelaide, South Australian vigneron and wine merchant born in Stalybridge (near Manchester, England), the son of Patrick Auld (1811 – 21 January 1886) and Eliza Auld (née McKinnell, 1806 – 8 July 1873).

John Joseph Power (1867 – 3 April 1968) was an Australian politician.

Thomas Scott was formerly the Assistant Surveyor-General of Tasmania.

Michael John Flannigan (13 August 1862 – 21 April 1901) was the first District Surveyor of King Island (Tasmania), Australia.

Frank J. Paterson was an Australian surveyor and mayor of Toowoomba, Queensland from 1931-1933.

George Barney (19 May 1792 – 16 April 1862) was a Royal Engineer officer and became Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of North Australia.

George Woodroffe Goyder (24 June 1826 – 2 November 1898) was a surveyor in South Australia during the latter half of the nineteenth century.

William Romaine Govett (3 October 1807 – 22 August 1848) was a painter and assistant surveyor in the Surveyor-General's Department of New South Wales and after whom Govetts Leap was named.

David Lindsay (20 June 1856 – 17 December 1922) was an Australian explorer and surveyor and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London.

Philip Francis Adams (1828 – 22 June 1901) was a Surveyor General of New South Wales, Australia.

William Alcock Tully (14 March 1830 – 26 April 1905) was a Surveyor General of Queensland, (then a colony, now a state of Australia).

William Henry O’Malley Wood (15 June 1856 – 5 August 1941) was an Australian banker, public servant and surveyor.

Light was born in Kuala Kedah, Kedah (which is now in Malaysia).

Hector Munro (23 September 1859 – 18 December 1930) was the eldest son of George Munro, born on 'Boondooma Station', Queensland, which was managed by his father.

Robert Harald Lindsay Dixon (1800–1858) was an Australian surveyor and explorer, born in Darlington, England.

Robert Russell (13 February 1808 – 10 April 1900) was an architect and surveyor, active in Australia.

Sir George Strickland Kingston (23 August 1807 – 26 November 1880) arrived in South Australia on the Cygnet in 1836.

Robert Hoddle (20 April 1794 – 24 October 1881) was a surveyor of Port Phillip District (later known as the Australian state of Victoria) in the 1830s, and the creator of the Hoddle Grid, the street grid system upon which inner city Melbourne is based.

Edmund A. Delisser (1829 – July 1900) was an Australian surveyor who first named the Nullarbor Plain in 1866 when travelling between Fowler's Bay and Eucla.

Alexander Black (25 May 1827 – 13 March 1897) was a Scottish-born surveyor who worked for most of career in Victoria, Australia and was Surveyor General of Victoria for six years from 1886.

General Edward Charles Frome (7 January 1802 – 2 November 1890) was a prominent British Army officer and Surveyor General of South Australia.

James Erskine Calder (8 June 1808 – 20 February 1882) was a Surveyor General of Tasmania, (then a colony, now a state of Australia).

James Meehan (1774 – 21 April 1826) was an Irish-Australian explorer and surveyor.

Saxil Tuxen (1885–1975) was an influential surveyor and town planner in Melbourne, Australia, during the interwar periods.