Thomas Burr (1813–1866), surveyor and mine manager, was a British explorer and Deputy Surveyor General of South Australia 1839–46.
James William Jones (1843 – 26 April 1920) was a South Australian surveyor.
 He was the son of civil engineer Thomas Jones, founder of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows in South Australia.
 He studied at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution.
 He was soon working for his father on the Port Elliot to Goolwa tramway, for which his father received official criticism.
 He joined the State public service as a draughtsman in 1865 and was appointed Chief Surveyor then Deputy Surveyor-General in the Department of Survey and Crown Lands.
 He explored the area north-east of Eucla in 1880, and discovered the Kudna rockhole and catacombs, an immense network of limestone caves, lakes and underground passages under the Nullarbor Plain.
 He was appointed Conservator of Water in 1887 and Secretary to the Commissioner of Works in 1902.
 He was secretary of the South Australia branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia from its foundation in 1885 to 1894.
 He was elected president of the Institute of Surveyors in 1912.
 He was chairman and president of the Harbors and Marine Board in 1914.
 He was secretary of the Cheer-Up Society during the First World War.
The Honourable Gerald William Lascelles C.B. (born 26 October 1849, died 11 February 1928) was an author and Deputy Surveyor of the New Forest from 1880 to 1914, and writer of an important book on the area, "Thirty Five Years in the New Forest".
 He was the third son of Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood and Lady Elizabeth Joanna de Burgh, and graduated from Cambridge University with a Bachelor of Arts.
 On 9 February 1875 he married Constance Augusta Mary FitzClarence Phillipson, the daughter of John Burton Phillipson, and had four children with her: Gerald Hubert Lascelles (23 Apr 1876 to 13 Jul 1928), John Beilby Lascelles (19 Feb 1884 to 13 Nov 1907), Richard Lascelles (30 Nov 1887 to 30 Nov 1887), and Cynthia Rachael Lascelles (29 Aug 1885 to 6 Sep 1961), who married George Wentworth Warwick Bampfylde, 4th Baron Poltimore.
 He was invested as a Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (C.B.) in 1914.
 Alongside arguably his most famous work on the New Forest, he authored "Sport in the New Forest" and "Forestry and the New Forest" in the Hampshire volumes of the Victoria County History, "The Art of Falconry", and numerous other (mainly sporting) publications.
Augustus Jones (c. 1757 – November 16, 1836) was an American-born Upper Canadian farmer, land speculator, magistrate, militia captain and surveyor.
 Jones trained as a surveyor in New York City, and fled as a United Empire Loyalist to Upper Canada.
 In Upper Canada, he worked as a crown surveyor in the Nassau District, where he quickly rose to the position of Deputy Surveyor General, the highest position in a district of Upper Canada.
 He occupied that position from 1789 informally, and 1791 formally, until his retirement in 1799.
 During that time he laid down many of the township boundaries in the Niagara Peninsula and on the north shore of Lake Ontario.
 He led various teams that cut many of the first sideroads and concession roads into these areas, facilitating their settlement by European and American immigrants.
 Jones also surveyed the routes for Dundas Street and Yonge Street, and supervised their construction.
 After his retirement, Jones farmed first in Saltfleet Township, later moving to Brantford and finally an estate outside Paris named "Cold Springs", where he died in 1836.
George Prideaux Robert Harris (1775–1810) was the deputy surveyor in the early days of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Australia, from settlement in 1803 until his death in Hobart Town in 1810.
Colonel William Light (27 April 1786 – 6 October 1839) was Eurasian, an artist, naval and army officer and the first Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia.
 He is famous for choosing the site of the province's capital, Adelaide, and for designing the layout of its streets and parks – in the Adelaide city centre and the Adelaide Park Lands.
The Deputy Premier of South Australia is the second-most senior officer in the Government of South Australia.
 The Deputy Premiership is a ministerial portfolio in the Cabinet of South Australia, and the Deputy Premier is appointed by the Governor on the advice of the Premier of South Australia.
Site No.
 JF00-072 is a survey monument located at the quadripoint of Republic and Washington counties in Kansas and Jefferson and Thayer counties in Nebraska.
 The monument marks the intersection of the sixth principal meridian and its baseline, the 40th parallel north; it serves as the initial point of all land surveys in Kansas and Nebraska, as well as most of Wyoming and Colorado, and part of South Dakota.
 The original sandstone monument was 6 ft tall.
 U.S. Deputy Surveyor Charles A. Manners set the monument in 1856.
 The monument was later buried under a county roadbed; it was unearthed and reburied twice before being dug up for good in 1986, though its middle section is now missing.
William Newton Byers (February 22, 1831 – March 25, 1903) was a founding figure of Omaha, Nebraska, serving as the first deputy surveyor of the Nebraska Territory, on the first Omaha City Council, and as a member of the first Nebraska Territorial Legislature.
Sir George Strickland Kingston (23 August 1807 – 26 November 1880) arrived in South Australia on the "Cygnet" in 1836.
 He was the Deputy Surveyor to William Light, engaged to survey the new colony of South Australia.
 Kingston was also the first Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly.

Question: George Strickland Kingston was the Deputy Surveyor to the man who chose which city as South Australia's capital?
Answer: Adelaide