Infrastructure project architect that plans complex routes through challenging terrain using workforce coordination and resource optimization.
Born in Wimbourne Minster, Dorset, England, he arrived in Australia in 1800 as a lieutenant in the New South Wales Corps, and purchased land to farm. In 1814 Governor LACHLAN MACQUARIE made him superintendent of works for a new road over the Blue Mountains, which was to reach the rich farming land of the cen- tral plains and the town of Bathurst, the first European settlement west of the Great Dividing Range. With 30β¦