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	July 1841 – June 1857[1]
James Sprent	1857 – Sept. 1859	acting
James Erskine Calder	Sept. 1859 – 30 June 1870[2]	Surveyor General position abolished 30 June 1870[2]
Henry Butler	1870 – 1872	Ministers for Lands and (Public) Works from July 1870 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
William Nevin Hurst	1925 – 1937
C.M. Pitt	1938 – 1953
C.C.A. (Charles?) Butler	1974 - Jan 1986
Christopher M. Rowe	1988 - 2002	acting in Jan 1988, permanent by 1991
Peter Murphy	2002 - 2013
Michael Giudici	2013 - Present

See also

• Surveyor General of New South Wales
• Surveyor General of Queensland
• Surveyor General of South Australia
• Surveyor General of the Northern Territory
• Surveyor General of Victoria
• Surveyor General of Western Australia

References

1. Love, A. R. (1967). "Power, Robert (1794–1869)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
2. Thwaites, Jack (1966). "Calder, James Erskine (1808–1882)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 20 June 2012.

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