Surveyor General of Western Australia
The Surveyor General of Western Australia is the person nominally responsible for government surveying in Western Australia.
In the early
Fremantle, and played a prominent role in the politics of the day. Another surveyor general, John Forrest, became Premier of Western Australia, and later a Cabinet minister in Australia
's first federal government.
In modern times, the position of surveyor general has diminished in importance. It remains a statutory office, and is housed within the current agency named Landgate.
List of surveyors general of Western Australia
This is a list of surveyors general of Western Australia.
Surveyor General | Period in office |
---|---|
John Septimus Roe | 1829–1872 |
Malcolm Fraser | 1872–1883 |
John Forrest | 1883–1890 |
John Sherlock Brooking | 1887–1896 (acting to 1890) |
Harry Johnston | 1896–1915 |
Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman | 1915–1917 |
Henry Sandford King | 1918–1923 |
John Percy Camm | 1923–1938 |
Wallace Vernon Fyfe | 1938–1945 |
Thomas Suter Parry | 1945–1948 |
Wallace Vernon Fyfe | 1948–1959 |
Harold Camm | 1959–1968 |
John Frank Morgan | 1968–1984 |
William George Henderson | 1984–1986 |
Henry James Houghton | 1986 |
Christopher Alan Grant | 1987–1990 |
Henry James Houghton | 1991–2001 |
Eugene Michael Browne | 2001–2003 |
Kenneth Alexander | 2003–2004 |
Grahame Searle | 2005–2008 |
Mike Bradford | 2008–2017 |
Dione Bilick |
2017–present |
See also
- Department of Lands and Surveys, Western Australia
- Surveyor Generals Corner
- Surveyor General of New South Wales
- Surveyor General of Queensland
- Surveyor General of South Australia
- Surveyor General of Tasmania
- Surveyor General of the Northern Territory
- Surveyor General of Victoria
References
- Lists of British, Australian and New Zealand Surveyors-General, Government Geologists... Retrieved 5 September 2016
- Australian Dictionary of Biography Surveyor-General search Retrieved 27 June 2012