Surveyor General of New South Wales

The Surveyor General of New South Wales is the person nominally responsible for government surveying in New South Wales. The original duties for the Surveyor General was to measure and determine land grants for settlers in New South Wales.

List of Surveyors General of New South Wales

Surveyor General	Period in office	Notes
Herman Theodore Augustus Alt	1787^[1]– 1803	Alt's job was mainly undertaken by then Deputy, Charles Grimes
Charles Grimes	1803 – 1811	George William Evans acted August 1803 – February 1805
John Oxley	1812 – 1828
Sir Thomas Mitchell	1828 - 1855	Samuel Augustus Perry, deputy from 1829.^[2]
George Barney	1855 – 1859
Alexander Grant McLean	1861 – 1862	Acting Surveyor General 1859-1861
Walker Rannie Davidson	1864 – 1868	Acting Surveyor General 1861-1863
Philip Francis Adams	1868 - 1887	Assisted the NSW Government Astronomer in observing a transit of Venus
Edward Twynam	1890 – 1901	Acting Surveyor General 1888-1890
Position Abolished	1890 – 1911	Office of Surveyor-General abolished in 1890, replaced by Chief Surveyor and Superintendent of Trigonometrical Survey.
Joseph Witter Allworth	1901 – 1904
Edward MacFarlane	1904 – 1908
Robert McDonald	1908 – 1911
Frederick Poate	1911 – 1916	Surveyor-General title revived 1911
John Broughton	1916 – 1922
Alfred Henry Chesterman	1922 – 1925
Henry Fraser Hall	1925 – 1926
Hamilton Bartlett Mathews	1926 – 1937
Arthur Max Allen	1937 – 1945
Harold George Barrie	1945 – 1946
Daniel Stern Mulley	1946 – 1953
George Wastley Vincent	1953 – 1960
Charles Edward Elphinstone	1960 – 1963
Henry Edward Hind Barr	1963 – 1965
Leo Noel Fletcher	1965 – 1978
Jack Darby	1979 – 1985
Donald Morrison Grant AM RFD	1986 – 2000	Awarded Member of the Order of Australia in June 1994 for service to surveying ^[3]
Warwick Arthur Watkins	2000 – 2011	Watkins was sacked from his position in the NSW Public Service, including being removed from the position of Surveyor-General after being found guilty of corruption by NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in December 2011. ^[4]As such he was the only the second Australian Surveyor-General to be sacked since Charles Grimes. Following ICAC's findings, Watkins faced criminal charges in the NSW Court where it was reported he could have received 10 years imprisonment. ^[5] Two of the charges were dismissed by the Court and Watkins was placed on a 12 month good behaviour bond. ^[6] On 23 October 2014, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' expelled Watkins from the Institution. ^[7] In being expelled from RICS he automatically lost his Fellowship.
Desmond Joseph Mooney	2011 – ?

Surveyor General of New South Wales

List of Surveyors General of New South Wales

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