Surveyor General of Tasmania

Surveyor General of Tasmania is a position originally created for the colony of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania from 1855 now a state of Australia).

List of Surveyor Generals of Tasmania

Surveyor General	Period in office	Notes
George William Evans	1826	appointed, but did not assume office
Edward Dumaresq	1825 – 1827	acting
George Frankland	1827 – 1838
Edward Boyd	1839 – 1841	acting
Robert Power	1841 – 1855
James Sprent	1855 – 1858	acting to 1857
James Erskine Calder	1858 – 1869	acting to 1859
Henry Butler	1869 – 1872	Ministers for Lands and (Public) Works from 1869 to 1894
C. Meredith	1872 – 1873
W. Moore	1873 – 1876
C. Meredith	1876
Christopher O’Reilly	1876 – 1877
W. Moore	1877
Nicholas John Brown	1877 – 1878
Christopher O’Reilly	1878 – 1882
Nicholas John Brown	1882 – 1887
E.N.C. Braddon	1887 – 1888
Alfred Edward Pillinger	1888 – 1892
W. Hartnoll	1892 – 1894
Alfred Edward Pillinger	1894
Edward Albert Counsel	1894 – 1924	Surveyor-General title resumed from 1894
C.M. Pitt	1946 – 1948
C.C.A. (Charles?) Butler	1974 - Jan 1986
Christopher M. Rowe	1988 - 2002	acting in Jan 1988, permanent by 1991

References

• Lists of British, Australian and New Zealand Surveyors-General, Government Geologists...
• Australian Dictionary of Biography Surveyor-General search