Charles Scrivener, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian surveyor
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Place of Birth: Windsor, New South Wales, Australia
About Charles Scrivener
- Charles Robert Scrivener (2 November 1855 – 26 September 1923) was an Australian surveyor, and the person who surveyed numerous sites in New South Wales for the selection of a site for the Australian Capital Territory and Australia's capital city, Canberra. Scrivener was born in Windsor, New South Wales.
- In 1876, he was employed by the New South Wales Department of Lands.
- He was apprenticed as a surveyor between 1877 and 1879.
- On 9 July 1880, the government gazette announced that he had been licensed as a surveyor by the Surveyor-General.
- In 1888, Scrivener was appointed Surveyor in Maitland, New South Wales, by 1896 he was appointed as an Acting District Surveyor in Wagga Wagga and District Surveyor for Hay in 1906.
- He surveyed numerous sites for the construction of Australia's capital, including Buckley's Crossing, the Hay district, and lastly the Yass-Canberra district.
- Scrivener's contour map of the selected site was used as the basis for entries in the Canberra design competition.
- He was appointed first director of Commonwealth lands and surveys in 1910 and retired in 1915.
- He died aged 67 in Killara, New South Wales. The Scrivener Dam on Lake Burley Griffin is named in his honour.
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