Robert Power (1794 – 15 February 1869) was a British Army officer and Surveyor General of Tasmania, (then the colony of Van Diemen's Land, now a state of Australia).
[3] In 1823 Power resigned from the army, in 1838 he was appointed at the rate of 300 pounds deputy-commissioner of crown lands and forests and deputy surveyor general in the British North American province of New Brunswick.
Power was gazetted as Surveyor General of Van Diemen's Land in July 1841,[1] after replacing the ineffective Edward Boyd.
[4] Power introduced a system of land leases which greatly increased revenue as the depression of the preceding years eased.
Power was appointed Serjeant-at-arms of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, in July 1866 he became Usher of the black rod.