What is Thomas Mitchell?
{{Infobox Person | name = Thomas Livingstone Michell | residence = | other_names = | image =Thomas Mitchell.jpg | imagesize =200px | caption = Thomas Mitchell | birth_name = | birth_date = June 15, 1792 | birth_place =[[Craigend]], [[Stirlingshire]], [[Scotland]] | death_date = October 5, 1855 | death_place = [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]] | death_cause = | known = | occupation = [[Survey]]or, [[Explorer]] | title = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | spouse = Mary Blunt | partner = | children = | relations = | website = | footnotes = | employer = | height = }} '''Thomas Livingstone Mitchell''' (June 15, 1792 – October 5, 1855) became [[Surveyor]]-General of [[New South Wales]] and laid out many [[Australia]]n towns and roads. He also went on four main expeditions to explore south eastern Australia. ==Early life== Thomas Mitchell was born in [[Craigend]], now part of [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]] on June 15, 1792. He worked in his uncle's colliery ([[coal]] [[Mining|mine]]) business. He joined the [[British Army]] in 1811 with the rank of [[lieutenant]]. He fought in the [[Peninsula War]] in [[Spain]] against [[Napoleon]]. As well as actual fighting, he worked as a [[surveyor]] and made maps. After the war he made maps of the battlefields. He was made a Major in 1826, but was then put on half pay.<ref>{{Citation | last = Baker | first = D.W.A. | author-link = | title = Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell | chapter = Mitchell, Sir Thomas Livingstone (1792–1855) | year = 1967 | publisher = National Centre of Biography, Australian National University | chapter-url = http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020206b.htm | accessdate = July 20, 2008 }} </ref> ==Surveyor-General== Mitchell was given a job as a [[surveyor]] in New South Wales in September 1827. His job was to map roads, and join existing small maps into one big map that showed all of New South Wales. After [[John Oxley]] died in 1828, Mitchell was made the Surveyor-General, in charge of all the survey work.