Surveyor General of Tasmania is a position originally created for the colony of Van Diemens Land (Tasmania from 1855 now a state of Australia).
Surveyor General | Period in office | Notes |
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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 Tatlow Hurst | 1925 – 1937 | Title: Secretary of Lands; Surveyor-General title abolished again, see Land Surveyor's Act, 1924. Five other positions in the department also abolished at this time, to economise. |
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 | |
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