John Septimus Roe
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John Septimus Roe was the first Surveyor-General of Western Australia.
His early career included being a midshipman and master's mate on a number of vessels during and after the Napoleonic Wars, which took him to various sites across the British Empire: the European theatre of war, to North America, South America, the Persian Gulf, India, Mauritius, Burma, South East Asia and tropical Australia.Template:Australia-bio-stub