Robert Hoddle
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Robert Hoddle was a surveyor and artist. He was the first Surveyor-General of Victoria from 1851 to 1853. He was previously the Surveyor-in-Charge of the Port Phillip District from 1837 to 1851. He be
Hoddle c. 1878
Robert Hoddle with his omnipresent surveying telescope
Melbourne central business district, designed by Hoddle
William Lonsdale (colonist)
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William Lonsdale was a British army captain in colonial Australia who supervised the founding of the official settlement at Port Phillip from 1836. He went on to serve under the superintendent La Trob
Robert Hoddle
…View from Illawarra Range en route to Kiama, 1830; watercolour William Lonsdale appointed Hoddle as auctioneer at the first sale of crown land on 1 June 1837, at which he sold half-acre (0.2 ha) allotments for £18 to £78, considered…
William Lonsdale