Record ID:
35861564 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England
Death:
  • Hobart, Tasmania
Lived/located in:
  • Tasmania
Occupations:
  • Surveyor Surveyor-General
Used for:
  • Calder, J. E. (James Erskine), 1808-1882
  • Calder, James, 1808-1882
Notes:
  • Language and dialects spoken by the Aborigines of Tasmania : compiled from official and other vocabularies and arranged for comparison, 1901: cover (by J. E. Calder)
  • ADB, viewed 12 July 2019: ('James Erskine Calder (1808-1882), surveyor, was born on 8 June 1808 at Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England... He was educated at village schools and in 1822-26 at the college after it had moved to Sandhurst. He then joined the Ordnance Survey in England, and his interest in this work led his father to seek from the Colonial Office an appointment for him at the Swan River settlement or in some other colony. Calder was offered and accepted appointment as assistant surveyor in Van Diemen's Land on 5 June 1829. A month later he sailed in the Thames for Hobart Town, at half pay on the voyage. On 21 November he took up his position at full pay under the surveyor-general, Edward Dumaresq. Calder became one of the colony's most distinguished early surveyors. ...he died in Hobart on 20 February 1882 ... He also maintained a great interest in the Tasmanian Aboriginals and pleaded for the use of their place names; his Some Account of the Wars, Extirpation, Habits, &c., of the Native Tribes of Tasmania (Hobart, 1875) was a collection of material that had appeared in the Mercury, Australasian, and Tasmanian Tribune in 1872-75. His Language and Dialects Spoken by the Aborigines of Tasmania was published as a parliamentary paper in 1901.") http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/calder-james-erskine-1865
Local system number:
  • 000000866681
  • abv01589942
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX12863
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda TSL
Authentication code:
  • kin anuc