Sentence examples for practice as a surveyor of from inspiring English sources

In 1601 he went into practice as a "surveyor" of estates and private homes, some of them detailed in a famous album of his architectural drawings that was rediscovered by Horace Walpole in 1780 and is now held in Sir John Soane's Museum.

He served as a surveyor of highways, as Treasurer of the Colony from 1644 to 1649, and on various committees to lay out boundaries of new towns and inspect waterways.

He introduced himself as James Anderson, a surveyor of ring ouzels for the British Trust for Ornithology.

Orkneyman John Rae, known by the Inuit as (, "He who takes long strides"), was a Hudson's Bay Company surgeon who became a surveyor of the Canadian Arctic.

There were more tangible connections as well: family papers going back to 1662, tools George Washington used in his early years as a surveyor, even bits of his coffin.

In Moab, Utah, where he was born, his father worked as a surveyor and a prospector of gold and uranium.

Patrick Henry was the son of John Henry, a well-educated Scotsman who served in the colony as a surveyor, colonel, and justice of the Hanover County Court.

It has been my pleasure to attend many of these cancer conferences as a surveyor for the Accreditation (formally "Approvals") Program of the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons.

The company was founded in 1968 by J. David Power III as an independent surveyor of automobile quality.

As a teenager he left home and worked as a surveyor, developing a lifelong love of rivers and water transit and gaining immense experience before he was 20.

After taking the civil service examination, he was assigned a job as a surveyor, working on the construction of the Pentagon.