Victorian Ministers

Surveyor General

	Hoddle, Robert	1851-53
	Clarke, Capt. Andrew	1853 - Mar 1857
	Horne, George Samuel Wegge	Mar - Apr 1857	also Commissioner of Crown Lands and Surveys
	Darbyshire, George Christian	1857
	Hodgkinson, Clement	1857 - 1858
	Ligar, Charles Whybrow	1858 - 1868
	Skene, Alexander John	1869 - 1886



Government Printer

	Brown & Howards	Jan-Dec 1843
	Clarke, William	Jan-Dec 1844
	Goode, Samuel	Jan-Dec 1845
	Clarke, William	Jan-Dec 1846
	Goode, Samuel	Jan 1847-Dec 1848
	Wilson, Edward	Jan-Dec 1849
	Boursiquot, G. D.	Jan-Feb 1850
	Wilson & Johnston	Mar-Dec 1850

Govt Printing Office formed under an official Government Printer:January 1851

	Khull, Edward	Jan 1851-Oct 1851
	Ferres, John	Nov 1851-Jul 1887



Government Astronomer

	Neumayer, Georg Balthazar von	1859-1863	Govt Astronomer
	Ellery Robert L.J.	1863-1895	Govt Astronomer & Meteorologist
	Baracchi, Pietro Paolo Giovanni Ernesto	1895-1915



Government Geologist

	Selwyn, Alfred Richard Cecil	1853 - 1869
		Geologist, initially attached to Surveyor-General’s Dept, then placed in turn under Chief Secretary, Commissioner of Mines, Commissioner of Lands and Surveys and then Minister of Mines in 1867.
	Govt Geological Survey inaugurated 1856.
	Govt Geological Survey disbanded for a year.	1869-1870
	Smyth, Robert Brough	1870-1876	Secretary of Mines.
	Appears no specific ‘govt geologist’ for many years, just a series of men appointed by Minister/Secretary of Mines to do survey/mapping work



Mines
	Minister of Mines
	Sullivan, James Forrester	Jun 1863-Jul 1866
	Macgregor, John	Jul 1866-May 1868
	Kerferd, George Briscoe	May-Jul 1868
	Sullivan, James Forrester	Jul 1868-Sep 1869
	Smith, John Thomas	Sep 1869-Apr 1870

	Commissioner of Mines
	Humffray, John Basson	Nov 1860-Nov 1861

	Secretaries for Mines
	Smyth, Robert Brough	1860-1876
	no secretary? [or 1897?]	1876-1891
	Howitt, Alfred	1891 or 1897-??
	Travis, James	f.1902



Commissioner of Crown Lands and Survey
	Horne, George Samuel Wegg	Mar - Apr 1857
	vacant	Apr 1857 - Dec 1858
	Duffy, Charles Gavan	Dec 1858 - Mar 1859
	Evans, George Samuel	Mar - Oct 1859
	Service, James	Oct 1859 - Sep 1860
	Pyke, Vincent	Sep 1860
	Greeves, Augustus Frederic Adolphus	Sep - Nov 1860
	Brooke, John Henry	Nov 1860 - Nov 1861
	Duffy, Charles Gavan	Nov 1861 - Jun 1863
	Heales, Richard	Jun 1863 - Jun 1864
	vacant	Jun - Sep 1864
	Grant, James MacPherson	Sep 1864 - May 1868
	Gillies, Duncan	May - Jul 1868
	Grant, James MacPherson	Jul 1868 - Sep 1869
	McKean, James	Sep 1869 - Apr 1870
	MacPherson, John Alexander	Apr 1870 - Jun 1871
	Grant, James MacPherson	Jun 1871 - Jun 1872
	Casey, James Joseph	Jun 1872 - Aug 1875
	Longmore, Francis	Aug 1870 - Oct 1875



Commissioner of Railways
	Loader, Thomas	Nov - Dec 1860
	vacant	Dec 1860 - May 1861
	Houston, John	May - Nov 1861

Commissioner of Railways and Roads
	Mitchell, William Henry Fancourt, MLC	Dec 1861 - Jun 1863
	Grant , James MacPherson	Jun 1863 - Sep 1864
	vacant	Sep 1864 - Jul 1866
	Miller, Henry	Jul 1866 - Jan 1867
	Macgregor, John	Jan - Mar 1867
	Sulllivan, James Forrester	Mar 1867 - May 1868
	vacant	May - Jul 1868
	Jones, Charles Edwin	Jul 1868 - Mar 1869
	Sullivan, James Forrester	Apr - Sep 1869
	Wilson, William	Sep 1869
	Longmore, Francis	Sep 1869 - Apr 1870



Postmasters-General

	Mitchell, William Henry Fancourt	Apr 1857 - Mar 1858
	Evans, George Samuel	Mar 1858 - Oct 1859
	Bailey, John Robinson	Oct 1859 - Oct 1860
	Newton, Hibbert	Oct - Nov 1860
	Loader, Thomas	Dec 1860 - Mar 1861
	Macadam, John	Apr - Nov 1861
	Evans, George Samuel	Dec 1861 - Jun 1863
	Fellows, Thomas Howard	Oct 1863 - Mar 1864
	McCulloch, James	May 1864 - May 1868
	Smith, George Verney	Jul 1868 - Sep 1869
	vacant	Sep 1869 - Jun 1872
	Langton, Edward	Jun 1872 - Jul 1874

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