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Robert Hoddle

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Robert Hoddle (1794–1881) became a surveyor when serving in the Army Ordnance Department from 1812. After a brief time in the Cape Colony (now South Africa), he arrived in New South Wales in 1823. He was appointed assistant surveyor under John Oxley and accompanied him to Moreton Bay, where he worked on the survey and establishment of the site of Brisbane. Over the following years Hoddle surveyed areas of New South Wales, including the site of Goulburn. The appointment of Governor Richard Bourke (1777–1855) coincided with concern about the work of surveyor Robert Russell (1808–1900) on the new settlement taking shape in the Port Phillip District. In March 1837, Hoddle travelled with Bourke to the new settlement and effectively took over from Russell. On 4 March 1837, Hoddle and Bourke traced the general outline of the township. Three days later, Bourke directed that the town be laid out, and on 9 March the governor named the settlement Melbourne, after Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848), the British Prime Minister of the day. By the end of April, Hoddle

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