George Barney b. 19 May 1792

  • Architect (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
George Barney was an English military officer who rose through the ranks of the Royal Engineers to become one of the most regarded and pioneering engineers of his day. His contributions to early colonial Australia include work on Circular Quay, Darlinghurst gaol, the Wollongong shipping basin, Fort Denison and Sydney's original gas supply, roads, bridges and railways.

Citations

  • 'George Barney’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1.

  • Aird, W. V. (1961), 'The Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage of Sydney’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Coleman, K. J. (1953), 'A Short History of the Military Forces in New South Wales from 1788 to 1953’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Connolly, T. W. T. (1857), 'History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, vol. 1’, London, England, UK.

  • (1976), 'The Roadmakers’, Department of Main Roads (NSW), Sydney.

  • Fowles, J. (1962), 'Sydney in 1848’, Sydney, NSW (reprint).

  • Gillespie, R. (1975), 'Vice Regal Quarters—an Account of Various Residences of Governors of New South Wales from 1788 until the Present Day’, Sydney, NSW.

  • Greville, P. J. (1970), 'A Short History of the Victoria Barracks’, Paddington, NSW.

  • Historical Records of Australia, series 1, vols. 17-22, 25, 26.

  • Hogan, J. F. (1898), 'The Gladstone Colony’, London, England, UK.

  • McCulloch, A. (1984), 'Encyclopedia of Australian Art’, Melbourne, Vic. 2nd edition.

  • McNicoll, Ronald (1977), 'The Royal Australian Engineers, 1835 to 1902’, Canberra, ACT.

  • Porter, W. (1889), 'The History of the Corps of Royal Engineers’, London, England, UK.

  • Shaw, A. B. (1937), 'Fort Denison Sydney Harbour’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 23.

  • (1844), 'Catalogue of Elegant Household Furniture… Library of Books… to be sold by Auction by Mr Blackman on the premises, Fort Street. By Order of the Proprietor Lieut. Colonel Barney, on Tuesday the 28th Instant’, Sydney n.d. (1844?).

  • (1837), Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee on the Tunnel for Conducting Water into the Town of Sydney.

  • (1837), Report of the Committee on the Tunnel for Supplying the Town of Sydney with Water.

  • (1808), Great Britain and Ireland Army Lists 1808-46.

  • (1979), 'Letter’, Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority, 11-21.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870