Surveyor General of Western Australia

The Surveyor General of Western Australia is the person nominally responsible for government surveying in Western Australia.

In the early history of Western Australia, the office of surveyor general was one of the most important public offices. The first surveyor general, John Septimus Roe, was responsible for the laying out of many townsites, including Perth and Fremantle, and played a prominent role in the politics of the day. Another surveyor general, John Forrest, became Premier of Western Australia, and later a Cabinet minister in Australia's first federal government.

In modern times, the position of surveyor general has diminished in importance. It remains a statutory office, and is housed within the current agency named Landgate.

List of surveyors general of Western Australia

This is a list of surveyors general of Western Australia.

Surveyor GeneralPeriod in office
John Septimus Roe1829–1872
Malcolm Fraser1872–1883
John Forrest1883–1890
John Sherlock Brooking1887–1896 (acting to 1890)
Harry Johnston1896–1915
Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman1915–1917
Henry Sandford King1918–1923
John Percy Camm1923–1938
Wallace Vernon Fyfe1938–1945
Thomas Suter Parry1945–1948
Wallace Vernon Fyfe1948–1959
Harold Camm1959–1968
John Frank Morgan1968–1984
William George Henderson1984–1986
Henry James Houghton1986
Christopher Alan Grant1987–1990
Henry James Houghton1991–2001
Eugene Michael Browne2001–2003
Kenneth Alexander2003–2004
Grahame Searle2005–2008
Mike Bradford2008–2017
Dione Bilick2017–present

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