The Surveyor General is an official responsible for government surveying in a specific country or territory. Originally this would often have been a military appointment, but is now more likely to be a civilian post.
The following Surveyor General positions exist, or have existed historically:
- Surveyor General (Canada):
- Arpenteur général du Québec
- Surveyor General of Ontario
- Surveyor General (Australia)
- Surveyor General of New South Wales
- Surveyor General of South Australia
- Surveyor General of Queensland
- Surveyor General of Tasmania
- Surveyor General of the Northern Territory
- Surveyor General of Victoria
- Surveyor General of Western Australia
- Surveyor General of Cornwall
- Surveyor General of India
- Surveyor General of Ireland
- Surveyor General of New Netherland
- The Surveyor General of Pakistan
- Surveyor General of Sri Lanka (formal Surveyor General of Ceylon)
- Surveyor General of the United States
- Surveyor General of North Carolina
- Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory
- Surveyor General of Hong Kong
Famous quotes containing the word general:
“The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man’s general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings, would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown, would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters, turns upon one shilling.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)