English: Sir Augustus Charles Gregory, Surveyor General of Queensland. Augustus Charles Gregory was born in 1819 in Farnsfield, Nottinghamshire. As a young man he came with his family to Western Australia to the new Swan River Settlement where his father accepted land in lieu of a pension from the army. He chose his profession encouraged by the Surveyor General Roe who made Gregory a surveying cadet in his department in 1841 and he became an assistant surveyor. After extensive experience in Western Australia with his brothers he later came to Queensland. He was leader of the North Australian Exploring Expedition from 1855 to 1857 which included Ferdinand Mueller. The expedition explored the Victoria River and Sturt Creek in the Northern Territory before returning overland to Moreton Bay in Queensland.