Person

Ligar, Charles Whybrow (1811 - 1881)

Born
1811
Ceylon
Died
February 1881
Texas, United States of America
Occupation
Surveyor and Soldier

Summary

Charles Ligar was a surveyor who, after working for the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, was Surveyor General in New Zealand from 1842 to 1856. He moved to Victoria in 1858 and was appointed Surveyor General. Among his achievements in this role was the establishment of the geodetic survey which provided an accurate framework for expeditious local surveys. He was unsuccessful in his undertaking to reduce costs in his department and was removed from office in 1869 at a time when economic stringencies resulted in many civil servants losing their jobs. Ligar joined the Philosophical Institute of Victoria (later the Royal Society of Victoria), serving two terms as Vice-President. He was a member of the Institute's Exploration Committee which was charged with organising what became the Victorian Exploring Expedition.

Skip to

Details

Chronology

1842 - 1856
Career position - Surveyor General, New Zealand
1857 - 1859
Career position - Member, Exploration Committee of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria
1858
Life event - Moved to Victoria
1858 - 1869
Career position - Surveyor General, Victorian Department of Crown Lands and Survey
1859
Career position - Member, Philosophical Institute of Victoria
1859 - 1860
Career position - Member, Board of Science, Colony of Victoria
1859 - 1869
Career position - Member, Royal Society of Victoria
1860 - 1866
Career position - Member, Exploration Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria
1861
Career position - Vice-President, Royal Society of Victoria
1865 - 1867
Career position - Vice-President, Royal Society of Victoria
1869
Life event - Left Victoria

Related Events

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

  • Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details

Book Sections

Conference Papers

Journal Articles

  • Ligar, Charles W., 'Grass Tree', Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 7 (1866), 145-7. Details

Resources

See also

Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn

Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 6 October 2023

EOAS ID: biogs/P000096b.htm

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
What do we mean by this?

Published by Swinburne University of Technology.
This Edition: 2024 November (Ballambar - Gariwerd calendar - early summer - season of butterflies)
Reference: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/gariwerd.shtml#ballambar
For earlier editions see the Internet Archive at: https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.eoas.info

The Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation uses the Online Heritage Resource Manager (OHRM), a relational data curation and web publication system developed by the eScholarship Research Centre and its predecessors at the University of Melbourne 1999-2020. The OHRM has been maintained by Gavan McCarthy since 2020.

Cite this page: https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000096b.htm

"... the rengitj, as a visible mark or imprint on the land, is characterised as a place of origin, the repository of all names, as well as a kind of mapped visual expression of the connection between people and places which is to be carried out in the temporal sequence of the journey." Fanca Tamisari (1998) 'Body, Vision and Movement: In the footprints of the ancestors'. Oceania 68(4) p260