Alfred George Billing (12 August 1903 - 13 March 1989) was an Australian

surveyor Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is ca ...

who served as the eighth

Surveyor-General A surveyor general is an official responsible for government surveying in a specific country or territory. Historically, this would often have been a military appointment, but it is now more likely to be a civilian post. The following surveyor gen ...

of the

Federated Malay States )Under God's Protection , capital = Kuala Lumpur1 , religion = Islam , legislature = Federal Legislative Council , type_house1 = State level , common_languages = , title_leader = Monarch , leader1 ...

, from 1949 to 1952. Albert George Billing was born 12 August 1902 in

Indooroopilly, Queensland Indooroopilly is a riverside suburb 7km west of the Brisbane CBD, Queensland, Australia. In the , Indooroopilly had a population of 12,242 people. Geography Indooroopilly is bounded to the south and south-east by the median of the Brisbane Riv ...

, the third son and fifth of six children of George Bienvenu Billing (1864-1929) and Alice Isabel Mary née Ottaway (1871-1939). He attended

Brisbane Grammar School , motto_translation = Nothing Without Labour , established = 1868 , type = Independent, day & boarding , gender = Boys , denomination = Non-denominational , slogan = , key_people = , ci ...

. In February 1918 he successfully passed the Commonwealth Public Service examination, and worked in the Queensland Survey Department until 1923. In March 1924 he took up a position with the Federated Malay States Survey Department in

Johore Johor (; ), also spelled as Johore, is a state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. Johor has land borders with the Malaysian states of Pahang to the north and Malacca and Negeri Sembilan to the northwest. Johor shares maritime bor ...

and in March 1928 was made an assistant superintendent. In September 1928 has appointed as acting deputy chief surveyor for Singapore. On 27 May 1933 he married Meta Livian Everdell (1902-1976), and on 28 November 1935 they had twins, a son and a daughter. In October 1940 he was appointed as chief surveyor for

Selangor Selangor (; ), also known by its Arabic language, Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 Malaysian states. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east ...

and

Negeri Sembilan Negeri Sembilan (, Negeri Sembilan Malay: ''Nogoghi Sombilan'', ''Nismilan'') is a state in Malaysia which lies on the western coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It borders Selangor on the north, Pahang in the east, and Malacca and Johor to the s ...

. On 7 October 1949 he was appointed Surveyor-General of the Federated Malay States, replacing

Percy Herbert Bonnet Percy Herbert Bonnet (25 July 1896 - 11 October 1987) was an Australian surveyor who served as the seventh Surveyor-General of the Federated Malay States, from 1945 to 1949. Percy Herbert Bonnet was born on 25 July 1896 in Bundaberg, Queensland, t ...

. He retired from the position on 2 September 1952. Billing was subsequently appointed as the liaison officer for Malay students studying at Australian universities. He died on 13 March 1989 in Brisbane, at the age of 86.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Billing, Alfred George 1903 births 1989 deaths Australian surveyors Administrators in British Malaya People educated at Brisbane Grammar School