About Philip Francis Adams
Lived 1828 – 1901 (aged 72–73). Philip Francis Adams was an Australian surveyor, astronomer and winegrower.
Philip Francis Adams (1828 – 22 June 1901) was a Surveyor General of New South Wales, Australia.
Adams was born in Suffolk, England in 1828. Ten years later, his family removed to the north of Ireland, and he was educated at the Belfast Institution. In 1851, he emigrated to British North America, and subsequently had an unlucky experience at the Californian diggings. He came to Sydney, Australia in 1854, and was Government Land Surveyor for the Maitland district till 1857. He was afterwards connected with the Trigonometrical Survey of New South Wales. In 1864, he was appointed Deputy Surveyor General, and Surveyor General on 17 March 1868,
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Philip Francis Adams was born in 1828.
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Philip Francis Adams died on 22 June 1901 in Sydney.
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Philip Francis Adams was a surveyor, astronomer and winegrower.
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