Surveyor General of Queensland

Surveyor General of Queensland is a position originally created for the colony of Queensland, now a state of Australia.

List of Surveyor Generals of Queensland

Surveyor General	Period in office	Notes
Sir Augustus Charles Gregory	1859 – 1875
William Alcock Tully	1875 – 1889	(acting 12 March 1875 – 8 July 1880)[1]
William Montgomery Davenport Davidson	1889 – 1891
Archibald McDowall	1891 – 1902
Allan Alfred Spowers	1902 – 1926	Chief Surveyor until 1907, son-in-law of Davidson above. 1902 to 1907 the office was downgraded to Chief Surveyor (subordinate to Dept of Lands)
Frank Beresford C. Ford	1926 – 1929	acting
J.P. Harvey	1929 – 1959
E.D. Mellor	1958 – 1961	acting
Torleif Hein	1961 – 1964	b. Norway 1898, to Australia 1899
William Barcham	1964 – 1966
Alec Barr Yeates[2]	1966 – 1975
John Macquarrie "Mac" Serisier	1 July 1975 – 1982[3]	also Director of Mapping & Surveying before 1980
Kevin John Davies	1983 – 1988/9
Neil Graham Divett	199?	for few months only until position abolished under Labor

See also

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

References

1. Duffy, L. J. (1976). "Tully, William Alcock (1830–1905)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
2. "ROYAL AUSTRALIAN SURVEY CORPS ASSOCIATION Queensland Branch BULLETIN April 2000" (PDF). Retrieved 19 June 2012.
3. "About Mac Serisier". Retrieved 19 June 2012.

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