Surveyor General of South Australia

The Surveyor General of South Australia is a position originally created for the colony of South Australia.

List of Surveyor Generals 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–

References

• Lists of British, Australian and New Zealand Surveyors-General, Government Geologists...
• Australian Dictionary of Biography Surveyor-General search