Person

Stapylton, Granville William Chetwynd (1800 - 1840)

Born
1800
Wighill, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Died
31 May 1840
Queensland, Australia

Summary

Granville Stapylton was a surveyor and explorer who joined the service of the New South Wales Government in 1828. He participated in several surveys in difficult country around Sydney and in tracing the Abercrombie River south from Bathurst, his skill as a surveyor being noted by Surveyor-General Thomas Mitchell. In 1836 Stapylton was appointed second-in-command to Mitchell on his Australia Felix expedition to Victoria, often finding himself in charge of the base camp rather than in the forward exploring party. He later worked for the colonial Governments of Victoria and Queensland and died when surveying the coastal area south of Brisbane.

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Published resources

Books

  • Eccleston, Gregory C., Granville Stapylton: Australia Felix 1836, second in command to Major Mitchell (Malvern, Vic.: Evandale Publishing, 2018), 250 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Canfield, Louis R., 'Stapylton, Granville William Chetwynd (1800-1840), surveyor and explorer' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 2: 1788 - 1850 I-Z, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1967), pp. 471-472. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020437b.htm. Details

Edited Books

  • Andrews, Alan E. J. ed., Stapylton with Major Mitchell's Australia Felix expedition, 1836, largely from the journal of Granville William Chetwynd Stapylton (Hobart: Blubber Head Press, 1986), 297 pp. Details

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