Person
Counsel, Edward Albert (1849 - 1939)
- Born
- 1849
Piper's River, Tasmania, Australia - Died
- 9 August 1939
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - Occupation
- Surveyor
Summary
Edward Counsel became head of the Surveys Department, Hobart and Deputy Surveyor-General of Tasmania in 1889. By 1894 he was promoted to Surveyor-General and Secretary for Lands retiring in 1924.
Related entries
Archival resources
Archives Office of Tasmania
- Edward Albert Counsel - Records, 1849 - 1939, NS 262; Archives Office of Tasmania. Details
Published resources
Book Sections
- Elias, Ann, 'Counsel, Edward Albert (1849-1939)' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 8: 1891 - 1939 Cl-Gib, Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle, eds (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1981), pp. 121-122. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A080135b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q21540065. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/220612509. Details
- 'Counsel, Edward Albert (1849-1939)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1466627. Details
See also
- Anon, 'History of the Institution of Surveyors, Tasmania', Australian Surveyor, 21 (7) (1967), 205-212, https://doi.org/10.1080/00050326.1967.10440052. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 15 February 2018
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