Charles Ligar

Charles Whybrow Ligar
Charles Whybrow Ligar, 1860s
Artist: Émile Jevezy
Born(1811-07-24)24 July 1811
British Ceylon[1]
Died17 January 1881(1881-01-17) (aged 69)
San Antonio, Texas, US
NationalityBritish
OccupationSurveyor
OfficeSenior Civil Assistant, Ordnance Survey of Ireland, –1840[2]: 154 
Surveyor General of New Zealand, 1842–56[3]
Lieutenant Colonel, Auckland Battalion of Militia, 1845[4]
Justice of the Peace for the Province of Auckland, 1856[5]
Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand, 1857[6]
Surveyor General of Victoria, 1858–69

Charles Whybrow Ligar (1811–1881)[1] was an Ordnance Survey surveyor, Surveyor General of New Zealand and Surveyor General of Victoria (then a colony, now a state of Australia).[1]

  1. ^ a b c Powell, J. M. (1974). "Ligar, Charles Whybrow (1811–1881)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
  2. ^ Andrews, John Harwood (1975). A Paper Landscape: The Ordnance Survey in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon Press.
  3. ^ "New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette". Vol. 1, no. 38. 29 December 1841. p. 2.
  4. ^ "Appointments in the Auckland Battalion of Militia". New Zealand Government Gazette. Vol. 5, no. 7. Auckland. 12 April 1845.
  5. ^ "Government Gazette". The New-Zealander. Vol. 12, no. 1116. 27 December 1856. p. 4.
  6. ^ "Government Gazette". The New-Zealander. Vol. 13, no. 1156. 16 May 1857. p. 3.