The Surveyor General of Western Australia is the person nominally responsible for government surveying in Western Australia.
In the early history of Western Australia, the office of surveyor general was one of the most important public offices. The first surveyor general, John Septimus Roe, was responsible for the laying out of many townsites, including Perth and 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 Bradford2008–2017 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
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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