Surveyor General of South Australia

The Surveyor General of South Australia (also stylised Surveyor-General) is a position originally created for the Surveyor General for the colony of South Australia. The post is held by an official responsible for government surveying.

List of Surveyors General of South Australia

Surveyor General Period in office Notes
Col. William Light 1836 – July 1838 Chose the site of Adelaide
George Ormsby July 1838 – March 1839 Acting, after Light's resignation
Capt. Charles Sturt March – October 1839 Famous as an explorer
Edward Charles Frome October 1839 – February 1849 British Army officer, retired as a general
Sir Arthur Henry Freeling 1849–1861 Gave his name to Freeling, South Australia
George Woodroffe Goyder 1861–1894 Mapped Goyder's Line
William Strawbridge 1894–1911
Edwin Mitchell Smith 1911–1917
Norman William Pethick 1917–1921
Theodore Ernest Day 1921–1930
James Henry McNamara 1930–1937
Clive Melville Hambidge 1937–1950
Arthur Dickerson Smith 1950–1951
Harold Leslie Fisk 1951–1959
Alexander Hubert Hawdon Davison 1959–1961
Harry Alexander Bailey 1961–1969
George Harry Campbell Kennedy 1969–1978 (sometimes written Campbell–Kennedy)
Bryan Howard Bridges 1978–1987
John Reginald Porter 1987–1992
Christopher William Lunnay 1992–1993 acting
Peter Maclaren Kentish 1993–2012
Michael Paul Burdett 2012–2022
Bradley James Slape 2022–present

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