John Nicholson

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A sketcher and surveyor. His only known drawing is that of the The Pass, Mount Victoria, New South Wales which was sent to Surveyor-General Thomas Livingstone Mitchell in 1832.
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sketcher and surveyor, was appointed assistant surveyor with the NSW Department of Roads and Bridges in 1830. He is known only for a wash drawing, The Pass, Mount Victoria, New South Wales (Mitchell Papers, Mitchell Library), which he sent to Surveyor-General Thomas Livingstone Mitchell from Mount Clarence in November 1832. It was accompanied by a letter in which he described the official opening of the pass by Sir Richard Bourke and some proposed improvements to the road, adding: 'I supposed you wanted [the drawing] soon and having been confined two or three days by illness I found myself short of time as well as ability to do better’.

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1992
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2011

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