1788 - 1815 |
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INTRODUCTION
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1816 -1822 |
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GREENWAY, Francis Howard
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1822 - 1824 |
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HARRIS, Standish Lawrence
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1825 - 1826 |
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COOKNEY, George
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1832 - 1835 |
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HALLEN, Ambrose
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1835 - 1849 |
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LEWIS, Mortimer
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1849 - 1854 |
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BLACKETT, Edmund Thomas
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1854 - 1856 |
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WEAVER, William
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1856 - 1862 |
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DAWSON, Alexander
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1862 - 1890 |
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BARNETT, James
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1890 - 1911 |
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VERNON, Walter Liberty
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1912 - 1923 |
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McRAE, George
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1923 - 1926 |
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BLAIR, Gorrie McLeish
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1927 - 1929 |
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WELLS, Richard McDonald Seymour
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1929 - 1935 |
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SMITH, Edwin
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1935 - 1958 |
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PARKES, Cobden
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1958 - 1973 |
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FARMER, Edward Herbert
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1973 - 1974 |
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WEBBER, Geoffrey Phillip
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1974 - 1978 |
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WEATHERBURN, Charles Percy
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1978 - 1988 |
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THOMSON, John Whyte (Ian)
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1988 -1995 |
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KELLY, Lindsay
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1995 - 2005 |
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JOHNSON, Chris
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2005 - 2012 |
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MOULD, Peter
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2012 - present |
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POULET, Peter
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1890 - 1911
VERNON, Walter Liberty
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Walter Liberty Vernon was born in 1846 at High Wycombe in England, educated at Westminster, and had a successful London practice before leaving for Australia in 1883 for medical reasons.
Vernon worked in private practice in Sydney before joining the newly named Government Architect’s Branch in 1890 as Branch Head. Funds and staff were depleted for the first years of Vernon’s term, until 1894, in response to the depression, the Government voted 136,635 pounds for the new building works.
A changed public architecture was evident in the new Post Offices, Schools and Court Houses completed at this time. Other achievements of Vernon’s term were the construction of the brick suburban fire stations, and major public buildings such as the Mitchell Wing of the State Library, the Art Gallery of NSW, the old Fisher Library at the University of Sydney, and Central Railway Station.
The GAB under Vernon was responsible for the design and installation of the elaborate decorations and illuminations in the city to celebrate the federation of the Australian colonies in 1900.
Vernon retired from the position of Government Architect on 11 August 1911.
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