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Major General Lachlan Macquarie, CB (/ m ə ˈ k w ɒr ɪ /; Scottish Gaelic: Lachlann MacGuaire; 31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland.
Lachlan Macquarie was an early governor of New South Wales, Australia (1810–21), who expanded opportunities for Emancipists (freed convicts) and established a balance of power with the Exclusionists (large landowners and sheep farmers).
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Lachlan Macquarie, c1819 State Library of New South Wales, MIN 236 Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824), governor, was born, according to a note in his own hand in a family Bible, on 31 January 1762 on the island of Ulva in the parish of Kilninian in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland.
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Lachlan Macquarie (31 de enero de 1762-1 de julio de 1824) [1] fue un oficial del ejército británico y administrador colonial de Escocia. Macquarie fue el quinto gobernador de Nueva Gales del Sur entre 1810 y 1821, [ 2 ] teniendo un papel destacado en el desarrollo social, económico y arquitectónico de la colonia.
Lachlan Macquarie became Governor of New South Wales on 1st January 1810. This gallery celebrates Macquarie by featuring iconic documents (together with transcriptions with some interpretation) from the wealth of Macquarie related material in our collection.
Lachlan Macquarie was born on 31 January 1761 on the Isle of Ulva, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. His father, Lachlan Macquarie, was a cousin of the sixteenth and last chieftain of the clan MacQuarrie, while Macquarie's mother, Margaret (nee Maclaine) was the only sister of Murdoch Maclaine (1730-1804), 19th Laird of Lochbuy, in Mull.
He was the first to see above the limits of the convict settlement or the opportunties for self-enrichment which had characterised the early colony. His vision, by 1821, was shown in a public building and town planning program that had established a solid infrastructure for the colony.
