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

References

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