Thompson, Francis Michael Longstreth

Chartered surveyors the growth of a profession - London Routledge and Kegan Paul 1968 - xvi, 400p., [69]p. of plates ill. 25cm.

The sixteeth-century surveyor -- Surveyors and the land, 1600-1800 -- Surveying in the early industrial revolution -- The origins of quantity surveying -- The rise of professional valuers -- Surveyors in the railway age -- The foundation of the Institution of Surveyors -- The Institution and professionalization -- The growth of qualfying examinations -- The education of surveyors -- The development of local self-government -- Home rule and imperialism -- Specializations and professional unity -- The Institution and the public -- Appendices: Surveyors in the census -- Membership of the Institution -- The first examination papers, 1861 -- Professional earnings, 1955/56 -- Surveyors' salaries, 1946 and 1949 -- Surveyors' earnings, 1962/63 -- Analysis of type of practice of chartered surveyors, 1955 -- The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in public life -- Presidents, honorary secretaries, and secretaries of the Institution -- Select biographical dictionary of surveyors and their associates: concise biographies -- knighthoods awarded to members of the Institution

Published to mark the centenary of RICS this book provides a comprehensive history of the surveying profession and RICS' first 100 years. The text includes useful historical statistics for surveying and RICS members and reproductions of key documents.

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