Flashcards: British surveyors

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

John Charles Darke, 1806–1844, was a surveyor and explorer in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) and South Australia.

Patrick Andrew Clayton DSO MBE (16 April 1896 – 17 March 1962 ) was a British surveyor and soldier.

Sir Woodbine Parish KCH (14 September 1796, London – 16 August 1882, St. Leonards, Sussex) was a British diplomat, traveller and scientist.

David Bucknall (1939 - 7 June 2015, aged 76), OBE, RICS, was a Partner of Bucknall Austin, later to be merged with Rider Hunt, and Levett and Bailey, to form Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB), a leading global Construction and Quantity Surveying Practice with 3,500 employees in 120 offices worldwide.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas George Montgomerie FRS (1830–1878) was a British surveyor who participated in the Great Trigonometric Survey of India as a lieutenant in the 1850s.

(For those of the same or a similar name, see George Tod (judge) and George Todd (disambiguation).) George Tod was a British surveyor and hothouse builder who provided colour illustrations and descriptions of 26 "glass houses," chiefly of his own design, in an 1807 publication.

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John Frederick Anthony Symonds (c.1815 – 1852) was a British Army officer and surveyor who carried out the first detailed survey of Palestine.

John White (1748–1813) was a property developer and surveyor to the Duke of Portland who was responsible for the development of the Duke's land in Marylebone, including Harley Street and what subsequently became Regent's Park.

William James (13 June 1771 – 10 March 1837) was an English lawyer, surveyor, land agent and pioneer promoter of rail transport.

William Pote (15 December 1718 – c. 1755) was a British surveyor and ship captain who wrote one of the few captivity narratives from Acadia/Nova Scotia when he was captured by the Wabanaki Confederacy during King George's War.

Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen FRS FZS FRGS MBOU (6 July 1834 – 2 December 1923), known until 1854 as Henry Haversham Austen, was an English topographer, geologist, naturalist and surveyor.

Robert Bell (1821 – February 25, 1873) was a surveyor, journalist and political figure in Canada West.

John Lewis Tiarks, FRS (born Johann Ludwig Tiarks, 10 May 1789 – 1 May 1837) was the British astronomer to the North American Boundary Line Commission.

Cater Rand (9 December 1749 in Lewes, Sussex, England – 21 December 1825), his father, Charles Rand ? - 1763 had been born in Colchester, Essex, but relocated as a boy to Sussex in 1714.

Charles Baker (5 October 1743—19 February 1835) was born in Virginia, and was a surveyor in Canada as his first recorded profession.

Sir Colin Norman Thornton-Kemsley, OBE, TD (2 September 1903 – 17 July 1977) was a Conservative and National Liberal politician in the United Kingdom.

(For the English naval surgeon, see Benjamin Fonseca Outram.) Benjamin Outram (1 April 1764 – 22 May 1805) was an English civil engineer, surveyor and industrialist.

Alastair Macdonald MBE is a retired land surveyor and author.

Holland was born in 1728 in Deventer, the Netherlands.