| 词条 | Edward Charles Frome |
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|name=Edward Charles Frome |birth_date=7 January 1802 |death_date={{d-da|2 November 1890|7 January 1802}} |birth_place= Gibraltar |death_place=Ewell, Surrey |placeofburial= |image=EdwardCharlesFrome.jpg |caption=Edward Charles Frome |nickname= |allegiance={{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom |serviceyears= |rank= General |branch= British Army |commands= |unit= |battles= |awards= }} General Edward Charles Frome (7 January 1802 – 2 November 1890) was a prominent British Army officer and Surveyor General of South Australia. Born in Gibraltar, and orphaned early in his life, Frome was educated in Blackheath, London, England,[1] where he became a close friend of Benjamin Disraeli. He received his commission in the Royal Engineers in 1825.[1] He was involved in the Rideau Canal construction in Canada in 1827 to 1833.[1] In September 1839 Frome arrived in South Australia on the ship Recovery to take up an appointment as the colony's third Surveyor General.[1] He was also a member of the South Australian Legislative Council (2 October 1839 to 14 June 1843).[2] He made an important contribution in surveying large areas of South Australia for new immigrants to settle upon.[1] In 1843 he led an expedition to the mid-north of South Australia and was the first to accurately map Lake Frome.[1] He was also a competent artist and made many sketches and paintings of landscapes on his surveying expeditions. After his ten-year term expired he returned to England and was subsequently stationed in Mauritius, Scotland and Gibraltar. Between 1869 and 1874 he served as Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.[1] He retired in 1877 with the army rank of general, and died in 1890 at Ewell in Surrey.[1] His name was given to two lakes - Lake Frome in the state's north-east and Lake Frome in the state's south-east, Frome River and Frome Road, a major thoroughfare in Adelaide, South Australia.[3] See also
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 {{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=B. C. |last=Newland |title=Frome, Edward Charles (1802–1890) |id2=frome-edward-charles-2070 |accessdate=23 September 2014}} 2. ^{{cite SA-parl |pid=4094 |name=Lieutenant Edward Frome}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Search result for " Frome River (Stream) (Record no. SA0000030) with the following layers selected - "Suburbs and Localities" and " Place names (gazetteer)" |url=http://maps.sa.gov.au/plb/# |work=Property Location Browser|publisher=Government of South Australia |accessdate=26 September 2016}}
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