The surveyor general of Malaysia was the head 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 ...

Survey Department, now known as Department of Survey and Mapping Malaysia. The first surveyor general, Colonel

Hugh Milbourne Jackson Colonel Hugh Milbourne Jackson (27 March 1858 - 9 January 1940) was a British military officer and surveyor, who served as the Surveyor-General of the Transvaal Colony from 1903 to 1905, and the first Surveyor-General of the Federated Malay States ...

, took up the role on 25 September 1908, and on 1 January 1909 his responsibility was expanded to include the four State Revenue Survey Departments (Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang) with the Trigonometrical Survey Department. The Topographic Branch was formed in 1910, and the organisation expanded to five other unfederated states (Johore, Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Terengganu) between 1910 and 1926. The organisation added the Straits Settlement Survey Department (Penang, Malacca and Singapore) in 1920. The department continued to operate until

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

was formed in 1963, when it became the Department of Survey and Mapping headed by a director general. There were eleven surveyor generals from 1908 until 1963.

List of surveyor generals

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