Person
Mathews, Hamilton Bartlett (1873 - 1959)
- Born
- 23 March 1873
Deepwater, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 21 January 1959
Potts Point, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Surveyor
Summary
Hamilton Mathews worked for the New South Wales Department of Lands for most of his professional life. He started as an Assistant Surveyor in Maitland, then in Moree and Goulburn, before being appointed District Surveyor for Forbes and later Wagga Wagga. On 16 June 1926 Mathews was promoted to Surveyor-General and Metropolitan District Surveyor.
Details
Chronology
- 1894
- Career position - Qualified as a licensed surveyor and set up a private practice
- 1897 - 1901
- Career position - Assistant Surveyor for the Metropolitan Lands District, New South Wales Department of Lands
- 1899
- Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed at the University of Sydney
- 1901 - 1911
- Career position - Assistant Surveyor for Maitland
- 1911 - 1914
- Career position - Assistant Surveyor for Moree
- 1914 - 1915
- Career position - Assistant Surveyor for Goulburn
- 1916 - 1921
- Career position - District Surveyor for Forbes
- 1921 - 1926
- Career position - District Surveyor for Wagga Wagga
- 1925 - 1928
- Career position - Chair of the Soldiers' Settlements Appraisement Board
- 1926 -
- Career position - Member of the Royal Society of New South Wales
- 1926
- Career position - Surveyor-General and Metropolitan District Surveyor
- 1927
- Career position - Chief Mining Surveyor
- 1928
- Career position - Electoral Districts Commissioner
- 1928 - 1929
- Career position - Helped establish the Surveyors Act of 1929
- 1930
- Career position - Member of the Institute of Land Valuers
- 1938 -
- Career position - Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Surveyors, New South Wales branch
- 1954
- Award - Honorary Fellow of the Australian Planning Institute
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Published resources
Book Sections
- Atchison, John, 'Mathews, Hamilton Bartlett (1873-1959), Surveyor-General' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds, vol. 10 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986), pp. 442-443. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100431b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Elkin, A. P., 'R. H. Mathews: his contribution to Aboriginal studies', Oceania, 46 (1975/6), 1-24, 126-52, 206-34. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q24087922. Details
- 'Mathews, Hamilton Bartlett (1873-1959)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1467102. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 26 February 2018
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