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Lachlan Macquarie.
Scottish British army officer and New South Wales colonial administrator (1762-1824)
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About Lachlan Macquarie
Major-General Lachlan Macquarie was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland. Macquarie served as the fifth Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821, and had a leading role in the social, economic, and architectural development of the colony. He is considered by historians to have had a crucial influence on the transition of New South Wales from a penal colony to a free settlement and therefore to have played a major role in the shaping of Australian society in the early nineteenth century.
Everything about Lachlan Macquarie →- Occupation
- explorer, politician
- Position held
- Governor of New South Wales
- Citizenship
- Australia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- January 31, 1762
- Died
- July 1, 1824