Person

Grimes, Charles (1772 - 1858)

Born
24 February 1772
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England
Died
19 February 1858
Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent, England
Occupation
Surveyor

Summary

Charles Grimes was Surveyor-general for the colony of New South Wales about 1800.???? He was a member of the Cumberland expedition to Port Phillip under Lieutenant C. Robbins in 1803. In 1807 he visited Tasmania and was tasked with finding the best route for a road to join the north and south of the island.

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Chronology

c. 1790 - c. 1794
Career position - Head Constable, Norfolk Island
1790 - 1794
Career position - Deputy-Surveyor of Roads, Norfolk Island
1794 - 1801
Career position - Assitant, Surveyor-General, Sydney, Colony of New South Wales
c. 1795 - c. 1808
Career position - Magistrate and Superintendent of Public Concerns, Parramatta, Colony of New South Wales
1801 - 1808
Career position - Surveyor-General, Colony of New South Wales
1804 - 1806
Life event - Leave of Absence, London, England
1808
Life event - Returned to England
1808
Career position - Acting Judge-Advocate and Notary Public, Colony of New South Wales
1808
Life event - Allied with rebels deposition of the Governor William Bligh
1812 - c. 1833
Career position - Paymaster, 13th Regiment, British Army
1833 - 1848
Career position - Paymaster, Maidstone Recruiting Depot, Chatham Infantry and Invalid Depot, British Army

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Archival resources

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

  • Charles Grimes - Records, 1803; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Kass, Terry, Sails to Satelites: the Surveyors General of NSW (1786-2007) (Bathurst, N.S.W.: New South Wales Department of Lands, 2008), 484 pp. Details

Book Sections

Edited Books

  • Currey, John ed., A Journal of Grimes' Survey: the Cumberland in Port Phillip, January-February 1803 (Malvern: Banks Society Publications, 2002), 43 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Dowd, B. T., 'Charles Grimes', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 22 (1936). Details

Resources

Resource Sections

See also

McCarthy, G.J.

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