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McBeath, David
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Unique IDPE-001974SurnameMcBeathGiven namesDavidBiographical abstractDates of employment: 1844-1881Biographical noteBiographical details:
1844-1849 Overseer, City of Sydney, 13 July 1844; Principal Overseer, City Works, City Surveyor’s Department from 19 April 1845 to April 1849
1849 Successful tender for fencing in the Lachlan Swamp [ref: SMH 18 December 1849]; declined to act and tender given to Dodery:[ref: SMH 24 January 1850 p2]
1850 - 1857 Surveyor, Penrith Road Trust Office, Penrith; Penrith Nepean Bridge Company; Surveyor of Roads for Commissioners of Windsor Road Trust; Architect for Committee for the erection of a hospital in Penrith; Richmond Bridge Company
1859-1860 District Surveyor, City of Sydney
1860 Collector of Electoral Lists; Building & District Surveyor; City of Sydney
1860-1862 Collector for Assessment Books, Contractor, City of Sydney
1863-1878 Private practice
1878-1880 City Architect; work on the Town Hall foundations
1881 Court cases Council v McBeath and others re Town Hall foundations
1881 Architect of First Council Chambers for Municipality of Penrith, corner of Henry & Evans Streets, built 1881
1887 Death of McBeath
NSW BDMS Registry: Death 4187/1887 MCBEATH DAVID [parents] WILLIAM & JANET registered at PADDINGTON
Death Notices: McBEATH. -April 16 1887, at his residence, 88 Paddington street, Paddington, David McBeath, Esq., architect, aged 67 years.
McBEATH.-April 17 1887, at his residence, Dunsinane, 88 Paddington-street, Paddington, David McBeath, architect. Relieved from worldly injustice. [ref: SMH 18 April 1887]:
Funeral Notices: [ref: SMH 19 April 1887]
Probate Notices: [ref: SMH 29 April 1887]; [ Sydney Mail, 11 June 1887 p1225]
Comment on funeral notice: [ref: Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser (Grafton, NSW), 30 April 1887 p4]
Details from contemporary sources:
1844 Appointed overseer lieu Robert Hardy, 13 July - 25/- per week [ref: 10/1/39]
1845 Appointed Principal Overseer 19 April [ref: 10/1/78]
1845 Explanation accepted re working for himself - July [ref: 10/1/93]
1845 £2 week - increase from £1/10/- per week - new rate commence 1 November 1845 [ref: 10/1/105]
1846 Gives statement of duties to Board of Works - February [ref: 10/1/132]
1847 Reproof for absence from duty - December [ref: 10/2/4]
1848 Informed on correct mode of approaching Improvement Committee - January to McBeath [ref: 27/4/48/12]
1848 Board of Works clarifying workmen are under City Surveyor - January [ref: 10/2/18]
1848 Caution - lax supervision, City Surveyor’s complaint - June [ref: 10/2/61]
1848 Lax supervision, City Surveyor’s complaint, August - suspended then warned [ref: 10/2/82]
1848 Charged with neglect - details - memos to McBeath, August [ref: 27/4/48/272-273]
1848 Request increase - negatived - September [ref: 7/4/56]
1848 Request increase - November [ref: 7/4/268]
1849 Requests payment after dismissal of all labourers in April - notes that he himself has not been dismissed [ref: 26/4/199]
1849 Motion to pay and re-employ him - 31 May - negatived [ref: 7/4/573]
1859 District Surveyor appointed 17 May - Salary Recommendations for 1859, February - £250 pa [ref: 11/3/17]
1859 Letter 23 May, Penrith, acknowledging appointment as District Surveyor - sureties Charles Munn, storekeeper, Penrith and Charles Cottrell, auctioneer, Penrith [ref: 26/40/525]
1859 Sureties Charles Munn & Charles Cottrell - June - £500 - District No 1 [ref: 65/0168]
1859 Suspended by Bell, July - absent, unfit for duties - reinstated, August [ref: 21/15/10]
1859 Request reinstatement - severe illness - dependant family - August [ref: 26/41/716]
1859 Resignation, 28 November 1859 - work beyond his strength - read only, no resolution [ref: 26/43/1091]
1860 Withdrew resignation - January - 227 Palmer St [ref: 26/44/021]
1860 Appointed 30 December 1859 - Collector of Electoral Lists for 1860 - Bourke Ward [ref: SMH 6 January 1860, p 1]
1860 Selected for new position of City Building and District Surveyor - 7 votes for McBeath to 5 votes for Bradridge - Council Meeting 14 May [ref: Empire 15 May 1860]
1860 City Building & District Surveyor - Sureties John Perry & John Clark - £500 - May [ref: 26/45/373]
1860 Suspension by Mayor - absence, neglect - 31 August [ref: 21/15/23]
1860 Collector for Assessment Books - contract by McBeath & John Alfred Williams - request payment - half to be paid - July - [ref: 26/46/490]
1861 Claim short-paid - February - disputed - work not as specified [ref: 26/49/189]
1861 Legal letter from William Thurlow - request settlement - avoid litigation [ref: 26/50/402]
1861 Ceasing legal action - wish to settle - September - will accept Council enquiry decision [ref: 26/52/920]
1861 Letters October - November requesting special inquiry into amount claimed and refused for balance of contract - itemised details of work completed -- Council resolution January 20 January 1862 for payment [ref: 26/53/1028]
1862 Payment made to McBeath, January 1862 - £8/8/- for attendance at Quarter Sessions [ref: 22/5/03/179]
1869 Architect, private practice - request drainage work for certain premises - May [ref: 26/97/541]
1871 Accepted by John Young as arbitrator re Exhibition Building - Lewis & McBeath - May [ref: 26/109/552]
1871 Recommendations re settlement with Young - Lewis & McBeath arbitrators- August [ref: 22/13/46/363]
1871 City Solicitor to prosecute for breach of Building Act in Riley Street - December [ref: 877/1/324-2]
1875 Arbitrator with JW Dearing to value Want's land Randwick - November [ref: 877/1/324-2]
1878 Appointed City Architect -5 March - chosen from 9 candidates [ref: SMH 7 March 1878]
1879 Requests permission to move sewerage pipes under the Town Hall while completing basement foundations - January [ref: 26/155/020]
1879 Question of retention of services at termination of his present engagement referred to Finance Committee - 14 March [ref: 26/156/308]
1879 Report on compliance with Act re building of new Town Hall basement and details re plans received etc - May [ref: 26/157/497]
1879 Report and estimate for erection of an Ice House at the Fish Markets - September [ref: 26/159/1079]
1880 Completion of Ice House at Fish Markets - one ton of ice needed - January [ref: 26/162/007]
1880 Salary Schedule 1879-80 - Finance Committee recommendations [ref: 22/18/125/689]
1880 Response to allegations re contract to paint and reglaze at George St Markets by Thomas Chapman - June [ref: 26/166/1095]
1880 Presents plans and specifications for completion of Town Hall - July [ref: 26/167/1358]
1880 Resignation 22 November 1880 - ill health [ref: 26/170/2139]
1881 Report on Foundations etc Town Hall - Architect's reports - January [ref: 22/21/4]
1881 City Solicitor to report on responsibility of McBeath re condemned foundations of the Town Hall (February) - Action commenced April [ref: 877/2/022-5]
1881 City Solicitor reports judgements in cases v McBeath and v Evers & Kennedy - August [ref: 26/178/1535]
1881 City Solicitor forwards offer for settlement from McBeath - declined - November [ref: 26/180/2019]
1881 Finance Committee recommends various payments for services rendered in prosecution of McBeath [ref: 22/23/23]
1882 City Solicitor forwards amount owed and voucher by McBeath re court case May [ref: 26/184/746]GenderMaleSource system IDTPER-002805
1844-1849 Overseer, City of Sydney, 13 July 1844; Principal Overseer, City Works, City Surveyor’s Department from 19 April 1845 to April 1849
1849 Successful tender for fencing in the Lachlan Swamp [ref: SMH 18 December 1849]; declined to act and tender given to Dodery:[ref: SMH 24 January 1850 p2]
1850 - 1857 Surveyor, Penrith Road Trust Office, Penrith; Penrith Nepean Bridge Company; Surveyor of Roads for Commissioners of Windsor Road Trust; Architect for Committee for the erection of a hospital in Penrith; Richmond Bridge Company
1859-1860 District Surveyor, City of Sydney
1860 Collector of Electoral Lists; Building & District Surveyor; City of Sydney
1860-1862 Collector for Assessment Books, Contractor, City of Sydney
1863-1878 Private practice
1878-1880 City Architect; work on the Town Hall foundations
1881 Court cases Council v McBeath and others re Town Hall foundations
1881 Architect of First Council Chambers for Municipality of Penrith, corner of Henry & Evans Streets, built 1881
1887 Death of McBeath
NSW BDMS Registry: Death 4187/1887 MCBEATH DAVID [parents] WILLIAM & JANET registered at PADDINGTON
Death Notices: McBEATH. -April 16 1887, at his residence, 88 Paddington street, Paddington, David McBeath, Esq., architect, aged 67 years.
McBEATH.-April 17 1887, at his residence, Dunsinane, 88 Paddington-street, Paddington, David McBeath, architect. Relieved from worldly injustice. [ref: SMH 18 April 1887]:
Funeral Notices: [ref: SMH 19 April 1887]
Probate Notices: [ref: SMH 29 April 1887]; [ Sydney Mail, 11 June 1887 p1225]
Comment on funeral notice: [ref: Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser (Grafton, NSW), 30 April 1887 p4]
Details from contemporary sources:
1844 Appointed overseer lieu Robert Hardy, 13 July - 25/- per week [ref: 10/1/39]
1845 Appointed Principal Overseer 19 April [ref: 10/1/78]
1845 Explanation accepted re working for himself - July [ref: 10/1/93]
1845 £2 week - increase from £1/10/- per week - new rate commence 1 November 1845 [ref: 10/1/105]
1846 Gives statement of duties to Board of Works - February [ref: 10/1/132]
1847 Reproof for absence from duty - December [ref: 10/2/4]
1848 Informed on correct mode of approaching Improvement Committee - January to McBeath [ref: 27/4/48/12]
1848 Board of Works clarifying workmen are under City Surveyor - January [ref: 10/2/18]
1848 Caution - lax supervision, City Surveyor’s complaint - June [ref: 10/2/61]
1848 Lax supervision, City Surveyor’s complaint, August - suspended then warned [ref: 10/2/82]
1848 Charged with neglect - details - memos to McBeath, August [ref: 27/4/48/272-273]
1848 Request increase - negatived - September [ref: 7/4/56]
1848 Request increase - November [ref: 7/4/268]
1849 Requests payment after dismissal of all labourers in April - notes that he himself has not been dismissed [ref: 26/4/199]
1849 Motion to pay and re-employ him - 31 May - negatived [ref: 7/4/573]
1859 District Surveyor appointed 17 May - Salary Recommendations for 1859, February - £250 pa [ref: 11/3/17]
1859 Letter 23 May, Penrith, acknowledging appointment as District Surveyor - sureties Charles Munn, storekeeper, Penrith and Charles Cottrell, auctioneer, Penrith [ref: 26/40/525]
1859 Sureties Charles Munn & Charles Cottrell - June - £500 - District No 1 [ref: 65/0168]
1859 Suspended by Bell, July - absent, unfit for duties - reinstated, August [ref: 21/15/10]
1859 Request reinstatement - severe illness - dependant family - August [ref: 26/41/716]
1859 Resignation, 28 November 1859 - work beyond his strength - read only, no resolution [ref: 26/43/1091]
1860 Withdrew resignation - January - 227 Palmer St [ref: 26/44/021]
1860 Appointed 30 December 1859 - Collector of Electoral Lists for 1860 - Bourke Ward [ref: SMH 6 January 1860, p 1]
1860 Selected for new position of City Building and District Surveyor - 7 votes for McBeath to 5 votes for Bradridge - Council Meeting 14 May [ref: Empire 15 May 1860]
1860 City Building & District Surveyor - Sureties John Perry & John Clark - £500 - May [ref: 26/45/373]
1860 Suspension by Mayor - absence, neglect - 31 August [ref: 21/15/23]
1860 Collector for Assessment Books - contract by McBeath & John Alfred Williams - request payment - half to be paid - July - [ref: 26/46/490]
1861 Claim short-paid - February - disputed - work not as specified [ref: 26/49/189]
1861 Legal letter from William Thurlow - request settlement - avoid litigation [ref: 26/50/402]
1861 Ceasing legal action - wish to settle - September - will accept Council enquiry decision [ref: 26/52/920]
1861 Letters October - November requesting special inquiry into amount claimed and refused for balance of contract - itemised details of work completed -- Council resolution January 20 January 1862 for payment [ref: 26/53/1028]
1862 Payment made to McBeath, January 1862 - £8/8/- for attendance at Quarter Sessions [ref: 22/5/03/179]
1869 Architect, private practice - request drainage work for certain premises - May [ref: 26/97/541]
1871 Accepted by John Young as arbitrator re Exhibition Building - Lewis & McBeath - May [ref: 26/109/552]
1871 Recommendations re settlement with Young - Lewis & McBeath arbitrators- August [ref: 22/13/46/363]
1871 City Solicitor to prosecute for breach of Building Act in Riley Street - December [ref: 877/1/324-2]
1875 Arbitrator with JW Dearing to value Want's land Randwick - November [ref: 877/1/324-2]
1878 Appointed City Architect -5 March - chosen from 9 candidates [ref: SMH 7 March 1878]
1879 Requests permission to move sewerage pipes under the Town Hall while completing basement foundations - January [ref: 26/155/020]
1879 Question of retention of services at termination of his present engagement referred to Finance Committee - 14 March [ref: 26/156/308]
1879 Report on compliance with Act re building of new Town Hall basement and details re plans received etc - May [ref: 26/157/497]
1879 Report and estimate for erection of an Ice House at the Fish Markets - September [ref: 26/159/1079]
1880 Completion of Ice House at Fish Markets - one ton of ice needed - January [ref: 26/162/007]
1880 Salary Schedule 1879-80 - Finance Committee recommendations [ref: 22/18/125/689]
1880 Response to allegations re contract to paint and reglaze at George St Markets by Thomas Chapman - June [ref: 26/166/1095]
1880 Presents plans and specifications for completion of Town Hall - July [ref: 26/167/1358]
1880 Resignation 22 November 1880 - ill health [ref: 26/170/2139]
1881 Report on Foundations etc Town Hall - Architect's reports - January [ref: 22/21/4]
1881 City Solicitor to report on responsibility of McBeath re condemned foundations of the Town Hall (February) - Action commenced April [ref: 877/2/022-5]
1881 City Solicitor reports judgements in cases v McBeath and v Evers & Kennedy - August [ref: 26/178/1535]
1881 City Solicitor forwards offer for settlement from McBeath - declined - November [ref: 26/180/2019]
1881 Finance Committee recommends various payments for services rendered in prosecution of McBeath [ref: 22/23/23]
1882 City Solicitor forwards amount owed and voucher by McBeath re court case May [ref: 26/184/746]GenderMaleSource system IDTPER-002805
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CollectionPeople and PositionsOrganisationSydney City CouncilPositionBuilding & District Surveyor [Building Surveyor]City Architect [multiple departments]Collector for Assessment Books [department not identified]Collector of Electoral Lists [multiple departments]District Surveyor [multiple departments]Overseer [City Surveyor's Department]Principal Overseer [City Surveyor's Department]Related itemsMinutes of the Finance Committee: "B": Payment of accounts; officers’ salaries; collection of Report of Finance Committee - Salaries of officers for 1880
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