Person

Hoddle, Robert (1794 - 1881)

Born
20 April 1794
Westminster, England
Died
24 October 1881
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Surveyor

Summary

Robert Hoddle arrived in New South Wales in 1823 and worked with J. Oxley in Queensland and the Blue Mountains. In 1837 he was appointed senior surveyor at Port Phillip and designed Melbourne, Geelong, Williamstown and many other Victorian settlements.

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Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Robert Hoddle - Records, 1822 - 1837; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
  • Robert Hoddle - Records, 1823 - 1837; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre

  • Surveyor-In-Charge, Port Phillip District - Records, 1840 - 1878, VPRS 5359; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Surveyor-In-Charge, Port Phillip District - Records, c. 1837 - c. 1851, VPRS 15; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Surveyor-In-Charge, Port Phillip District - Records, 1828 - 1851, VPRS 97; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Surveyor-In-Charge, Port Phillip District - Records, 1836 - 1848, VPRS 5; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Surveyor-In-Charge, Port Phillip District - Records, 1836 - 1848, VPRS 6764; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Surveyor-In-Charge, Port Phillip District - Records, 1836 - 1853, VPRS 6765; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Surveyor-In-Charge, Port Phillip District - Records, 1840 - 1857, VPRS 93; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Surveyor-In-Charge, Port Phillip District - Records, 1841 - 1852, VPRS 73; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Surveyor-In-Charge, Port Phillip District - Records, 1848 - 1875, VPRS 243; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Surveyor-In-Charge, Port Phillip District - Records, 1848 - 1875, VPRS 244; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Surveyor-In-Charge, Port Phillip District - Records, 1848 - 1875, VPRS 5826; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Surveyor-In-Charge, Port Phillip District - Records, 1836 - 1853, VPRS 6; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details
  • Surveyor-In-Charge, Port Phillip District - Records, 1848 - 1875, VPRS 245; Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Archives Centre. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

  • Robert Hoddle - Records, 1820 - 1850, MS 8350; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Victorian Department of Conservation and Environment

  • Robert Hoddle - Records, 1837 - 1853; Victorian Department of Conservation and Environment. Details

Published resources

Books

  • Chappel, Keith Lytton, Surveying for Land Settlement in VIctoria 1836 - 1960 (Melbourne, Vic.: Office of Surveyor General, Victoria, 1996), 166 pp. Details
  • Scurfield, G.; and Scurfield, J.M., The Hoddle Years: Surveying in Victoria, 1836-1853 (Canberra: Institute of Surveyors Aaustralia, 1995), 144 pp. Details

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Resources

See also

  • Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_h.html. Details
  • Pearn, John, 'Surveyors, toponomy and heritage', Queensland history journal, 25 (2) (2022), 175-88. Details
  • Serle, Percival, Dictionary of Australian biography (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949). Details

McCarthy, G.J.

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