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	Robert Hoddle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Hoddle (20 April 1794 - 24 October 1881) was a surveyor of Port Phillip in the 1830s, and the creator of the Hoddle Grid in central Melbourne.
		Hoddle built himself a house on the corner of Bourke and Spencer Streets.
		Many of Hoddle's paintings are in the National Library of Australia, State Library of Victoria and the State Library of New South Wales.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Hoddle (403 words)

	Docklands-About Docklands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hoddle was directed by the governor to carry out the full survey of the settlement.
		Robert Hoddle produced the first surveyor's plan in 1837, laying out the streets of Melbourne in their present position.
		Hoddle's survey equipment comprised a circumferentor and surveyor's chain of prescribed length: 1 chain = 66 feet or 20.12 metres – the length of a standard cricket pitch.
	www.docklands.vic.gov.au /docklands/about/history/heritage.shtml (804 words)

	Hoddle surveys scene - Arts - www.theage.com.au
		Born in London in 1794, Hoddle arrived in Sydney in 1823 and spent 14 years surveying vast areas of NSW before taking charge of the planning for the two-year-old village of Melbourne, in 1837.
		Hoddle's topographical sketches, with their close observations of Aborigines and early settlers, show a countryside as tranquil and unspoilt as it must have been for tens of thousands of years.
		Hoddle was multi-talented: as well as a surveyor and accomplished artist, he played the flute and organ, translated texts from Spanish and, of course, conducted Melbourne's first land sales.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/10/04/1096865251368.html?from=moreStories (447 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography R (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Roberts received inspiration and encouragement from Clark, who was master of the drawing school, but it is doubtful whether the practice of copying pictures in the national gallery which was encouraged by von Guerard had much value.
		Roberts was getting a certain amount of portrait painting about this time, and in 1889 the famous exhibition of impressions was held at Melbourne.
		Roberts was approaching 60 years of age, but he volunteered and worked as a hospital orderly for three and a half years.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogR.html (20846 words)

	Marvellous Melbourne - Robert Hoddle, Survey of Melbourne, 1837 - Museum Victoria, Australia.
		On 4 March, Hoddle and Bourke rode over the area on horseback and traced the general outline of the township.
		By the end of April, Hoddle's plan of Melbourne was lodged at the government survey office in Sydney.
		Not all have agreed that the plan of Melbourne is actually the work of Robert Hoddle.
	www.museum.vic.gov.au /marvellous/early/measuring.asp (202 words)

	Melbourne central business district - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Hoddle Grid is the layout of the streets in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia.
		Named after its designer, Robert Hoddle, the Grid was laid out in 1837.
		It is one mile long by half a mile wide, and oriented with its long axis rotated 28 degrees counterclockwise of the east-west direction, to align better with the course of the Yarra River.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melbourne_central_business_district (315 words)

	The man with the grand plan - BooksReviews - www.theage.com.au
		Robert Hoddle: Pioneer Surveyor 1794-1881, By Berres Hoddle Colville.
		Governor Bourke first objected to Hoddle's wide streets, then agreed, on the condition that they be interleaved with lanes - the "Little" streets, bane of bullockies and Beemer drivers from that day to this.
		His profession should have made Hoddle terra nullius personified, yet he acknowledged prior occupancy of the land by ascertaining and retaining local indigenous names for many of the features he surveyed.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/06/04/1086203622126.html?from=storyrhs (959 words)

	Austrailain history
		Cook, son of a farm labourer, was born at Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, left school at 13, and later became a deckhand in the Baltic and coastal trade, transferring to the Royal Navy as an able seaman in 1755.
		Robert Molineaux the Master, Charles Green the Astronomer and Lieutenant Hicks had died (Hicks on the 26th May 1771).
		Michael Hogan (c1806-1873), drover, (a convict assigned to Robert Innes Allan of Goulburn who was rewarded for his efficiency in bringing the cattle safely to their destination in excellent condition and without loss), and James Conway Bourke (c1814-1902), convict, (who was the first Mailman in 1838), were members of that party.
	www.featherstone-society.com /history/australian_history.htm (6699 words)

	Robert Fitzroy -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Darwin was the second son of society doctor Robert Waring Darwin and of Susannah Wedgwood, daughter of the Unitarian pottery industrialist Josiah Wedgwood.
		Surveyed by Robert Hoddle in 1837 as the official settlement, it was subdivided into 32 symmetrical blocks, each 10 chains (660 feet; 201 meters) square.
		Scottish botanist Robert Brown was born in Montrose.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9034436 (725 words)

	Geocomp Consulting - Consulting
		Geocomp Consulting won the Robert Hoddle Prize for Excellence in Surveying, Year 2000, for its entry "Geo2000 Sewer - An innovative spatial approach to backlog sewer design".
		The Robert Hoddle Prize for Excellence in Surveying is awarded each year by the awarded by the Victorian Division of the Institution of Surveyors Australia, to the winners of a competition designed to showcase new and innovative surveying technologies and methods.
		The content within the Geo2000 Sewer web site was part of the winning Robert Hoddle Prize submission and demonstrates Geocomp Consulting's commitment to innovation and technical advancement through all stages of a project.
	users.bigpond.net.au /geocomp/consulting.html (221 words)

	You've got Buckley's ... Early Geelong
		The plan of these first subdivisions was drawn up by Robert Hoddle in 1838.
		What is now recognised as Geelong was granted local government in 1849, a mere fourteen years after John Batman had acquired 100,000 acres of land in the area, through an illegal 'beads and blankets' deal.
		Hoddle had instructed his Assistant Surveyor, W. Smythe, to 'commence 100 yards from the highwater mark at Corio'.
	amol.org.au /guide/stories/buckley/earlygeelong.html (497 words)

	NSW Heritage Office Website - Listing Heritage Items - State Heritage Register - Item View
		Surveyor Hoddle was instructed in 1827 to survey it before all other grants promised in the area.
		Hoddle set aside reserves for future townships including one near Kurraduckbidgee (Arn Prior), one centrally located (the present site of Braidwood) and another further south where Jembaicumbene Creek enters the Shoalhaven.
		Hoddle defined the outer perimeter (and presumably selected the location) of the "Jillamatong" reserve by resuming the western half mile of T B Wilson's property.
	www.heritage.nsw.gov.au /07_subnav_02_2.cfm?itemid=5054706 (5969 words)

	Moreland City Council - History of Moreland Fact Sheet 3 - Coburg and Pascoe Vale
		Coburg was surveyed by Robert Hoddle in 183738, and he recorded details of the first white person living in Coburg it was a Mr Hyatt who had a sheep station and hut on the east bank of the Merri Creek near present Outlook Road.
		Hoddle marked out a 327 acre village reserve with two roads for the district: Bell Street West and the other, later called Sydney Road.
		It was suggested by Robert Mailer of Glencairn that they should change it to Coburg as the Duke of Edinburgh was soon to visit the colony and he was a member of the royal house of Saxe-Coburg.
	www.moreland.vic.gov.au /historyofmoreland3.htm (881 words)

	The Landscape Art of the Illawarra, New South Wales, AustraliaUntitled Document
		Robert Hoddle, who visited Illawarra as part of his surveying duties associated with the building the Kiama to Bong Bong road in 1830, is perhaps best remembered for his lively watercolour of Pumpkin Cottage, the original slab cottage of Henry Osborne, a local settler at Marshall Mount near Dapto.
		Hoddle’s classic watercolour of Osborne’s first Illawarra home reveals just how primitive, ramshackled, and yet complex a settler’s hut of the early 1830s could be, with no sophisticated building materials such as bricks and mortar then readily available, though some of the finest woods in Australia, such as the red cedar, locally abundant.
		Though obviously not as talented as Conrad Martens, Captain Robert Marsh Westmacott (1801-1870), an amateur artist and draughtsman with a military background, is perhaps of greater import to the region as a pictorial chronicler of the period 1837-47.
	www.michaelorgan.org.au /illart1.htm (9659 words)

	Victorian Landmark Documents: Hoddle's Melbourne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This map was dawn up by the surveyor Robert Hoddle in March 1837 and shows the newly laid-out streets of Melbourne.
		This map seems to have been a survey used by Hoddle to draw up the plan map shown to potential buyers, as the latter does not include geographical details such as the indications of higher ground shown here.
		In 1841 Hoddle drew up a detailed survey plan of these falls, a section of which is shown below.
	www.prov.vic.gov.au /icons/hmapthumbs.htm (210 words)

	Berrima - History
		Camping on the banks of the river near the present bridge south of the town, he was impressed by the location, and recommended it as a townsite to the then Governor Bourke.
		The plan of Berrima was laid out by surveyor Robert Hoddle (who later became famous as the planner for Melbourne).
		Because it was to be the centre of government administration for the county, and for all points south in those early days of settlement, the plan included a gaol, courthouse, and residences for government officials.
	www.highlandsnsw.com.au /past_present/berrima_history.html (857 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Football \| Match Reports \| Leeds role reversal confuses Hoddle
		Wolves, making effective use of an attacking set-up more fluid than any English manager other than Hoddle could conceive, created and discarded a series of chances.
		Wolves also failed to score despite having the better of the play in their other away game this season, at Southampton.
		Hoddle is concerned that it is becoming a habit.
	football.guardian.co.uk /Match_Report/0,1527,1553860,00.html (627 words)

	Melbourne, Australia
		After it was granted the status of a town in 1842 Robert Hoddle was commissioned to plan its further development.
		When gold was found at Clunes in 1851, prospectors flocked to the goldfields of western Victoria, and banks and mining companies established themselves in Melbourne, which then enjoyed a tremendous boom.
		The central area of Melbourne, on the right bank of the Yarra River, is in the form of a regular rectangle bounded on the south by Flinders Street, which runs parallel to the river, on the west by Spencer Street, on the north by Latrobe Street and on the east by Spring Street.
	www.planetware.com /australia/melbourne-aus-vic-m.htm (854 words)

	Melbourne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Melbourne, capital of Victoria State, Australia, is located on a vast flat coastal strip, along the two banks of the river Yarra, in the inner area of Port Phillip Bay.
		It was founded in 1835, with the name of Dootigala, by a group of Tasmanian entrepreneurs, and was based on the characteristic grid structure conceived by the military surveyor Robert Hoddle.
		By the year 1840, 10,000 people had already moved to the area; in 1851 the Victoria colony was established, with Melbourne as its capital.
	www.comune.milano.it /webcity/Documenti.nsf/a05ac22aa8296639012567b6005b1193/cbb71c27df55aaa4c1256e67003f22e3?OpenDocument (323 words)

	Lee Street
		Attempts were made to relocate them in other areas but this was to a large extent unsuccessful and for a few more years they continued their nomadic lifestyle in an environment that was rapidly changing beyond recognition.
		In 1852, Government Surveyor Robert Hoddle surveyed an area that is now south and central Carlton.
		Hoddle's plan for Carlton included large areas of parkland, squares, churches, public buildings and broad, tree lined streets.
	www.unimelb.edu.au /infoserv/lee/htm/early_beginning.htm (7836 words)

	NSW Mudgee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The area was first explored in 1821, when William Lawson, one of the explorers who had crossed the Blue Mountains in 1813, discovered land north of Mudgee on the banks of the Cudgegong.
		Its street plans were drawn up by Robert Hoddle, who went on to plan Melbourne using the same basic grid.
		During the 1850s and 60s, gold was discovered in a number of areas around Mudgee and this plus the fine wool from local sheep brought prosperity.
	www.allsydney.com /nsw/Mudgee.htm (215 words)

	Stateline Victoria
		Governor Bourke came down with Robert Hoddle to lay out what would be the future city.
		And one of the amazing objects that we have on display is the actual chain that Hoddle used, and a chain is a traditional length of measurement.
		It actually measures about 66 feet and it would have been stretched out, used by a convict at either end working with him to map out that grid which we can thank him for now.
	www.abc.net.au /stateline/vic/content/2003/s1252538.htm (537 words)

	Chapter 1
		Dated 20th November 1851, the map is signed by the steady hand of Robert Hoddle (Melbourne General Cemetery), the noted Surveyor-General who laid out the streets of the Port Phillip district in 1837.
		In the centre of the map is an area of land surrounded by four unnamed carriageways and divided into seven rectangular blocks, three rows with two blocks and a separate double block.
		Could it be that Hoddle’s survey for a cemetery at St. Kilda was as a result of the urgencies from the Melbourne City Council in mid-1850 and influenced by the government authorities who favoured burial grounds away from populated areas?
	www.brightoncemetery.com /History/history_chapt1.htm (1443 words)

	Melbourne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Banyule is located between 7 and 22 kilometres north-east of central Melbourne and includes the suburbs of...
		The area that surveyor Robert Hoddle marked out, destined to be Brunswick, was determined by two straight lines...
		Coburg was surveyed by Robert Hoddle in 183738, and he recorded details of the first white person living in Coburg ...
	melbourne.wheretostay.com.au (155 words)

	Jondaryan Woolshed
		On a trip to Sydney in 1836 to obtain supplies for his store, he met Sarah Elizabeth Hoddle, the girl that was to become his wife, she was the only daughter of Robert Hoddle the Surveyor General for the Colony of New South Wales -- it was he who laid out the city of Melbourne.
		Early in 1857, JC White drew up the plans of what he would like constructed and sent them off to his father-in-law Robert Hoddle, who gave them to a Melbourne architect to draw up plans for its construction.
		Timber workers and carpenters were engaged and the church was built in 1858.
	www.jondaryanwoolshed.com /03_the_woolshed/architect.htm (1538 words)

	Football news, live scores, fixtures and results from 4thegame.com
		And as Hoddle started to prepare for tomorrow's Tournoi de France opening match against Italy in Nantes, he poured praise on both for their attitudes on and off the pitch.
		Hoddle said: "Robert wasn't playing well for his club at the start of the season, which was why I left him out.
		The matches against the Italians, France and Brazil will provide opportunities for others to stake their claim for a place in Hoddle's planning with the World Cup at the forefront of his mind.
	www.4thegame.com /news/story/22302 (529 words)

	City of Melbourne - History and heritage - First and second land sales
		Governor Bourke authorised the first sale of Crown land in Melbourne, which was conducted by Robert Hoddle on 1 June, 1836.
		Each block, as laid out by Hoddle, was subdivided into 20 allotments each of approximately half an acre (0.202 hectares).
		It is interesting to note that Robert Hoddle’s investment in, and his commission for, conducting the sale of a block of land in Elizabeth Street, extending from Little Collins Street through to Bourke Street, increased substantially in value during his lifetime.
	www.melbourne.vic.gov.au /info.cfm?top=52&pg=704 (417 words)

	Moreland City Council - History of Moreland Fact Sheet 5 - Glenroy
		Late in the 1830s the senior surveyor of Port Phillip, Robert Hoddle, was given the job of charting the land around Melbourne on maps.
		His task was to divide the area into 'parishes' (this was the English name given to Local Government districts but in Australia was generally only used to describe the location of land) and mark out towns and boundaries.
		The State Electricity Commission started supplying electricity to Glenroy in June 1925, but only eight premises and street lights were connected - it took a few more years for all the population to be supplied.
	www.moreland.vic.gov.au /historyofmoreland5.htm (678 words)

	Our Indooroopilly - Oxley and Cunningham explore in 1824
		Oxley was placed in command of the ship and instructed to choose the location for settlement and chart the environment.
		Accompanying Oxley, were Allan Cunningham, the King's Botanist, and Robert Hoddle, the surveyor.
		This extract covers the selection of Redcliffe as the location of the settlement and continuation of the exploration of the Brisbane River upstream from the highest point reached the previous year, i.e.
	www.ourindooroopilly.com /oihistox9.html (2082 words)

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