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Biography of Lachlan MacquarieName: Lachlan MacquarieBirth Date: January 31, 1762 Death Date: July 1, 1824 Place of Birth: Inner Hebrides Nationality: Scottish Gender: Male Occupations: officer, governor Lachlan Macquarie Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824), British officer and governor of New South Wales, sought to improve the status of emancipists and undertook a major public works program.Lachlan Macquarie, born on January 31, 1762, came from a poor Scottish family in the Inner Hebrides. The American War of Independence offered him an opportunity to rise in the world, and he joined a Highland regiment commanded by a cousin. In 1784 Macquarie returned to Scotland as a lieutenant and three years later embarked upon 16 years of military service in India and Egypt.Promotion to major, prize money, and an inheritance from his first wife, a West Indian heiress, enabled Macquarie to accumulate a competent fortune, and in 1803 he returned home to take possession of a 10,000-acre estate which he had acquired from his uncle on the island of Mull. The outbreak of war with France led to his appointment as assistant adjutant general of the London District, …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…of New South Wales: Journals of His Tours in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, 1810-1822 (1956). The standard biography is M. H. Ellis, Lachlan Macquarie: His Life, Adventures, and Times (1947); it is a large-scale and colorful study, rich in detail and with flashes of insight, but on the whole the interpretation is weak. Marjorie Faith Barnard, Macquarie's World (1946), is more systematic in its portrayal of a benevolent despot sacrificed by a British government determined to introduce a new policy. Basil Holmes Travers, The Captain-General (1953), deals sympathetically with Macquarie's administration in New South Wales, concluding that he was a model governor.The Age of Macquarie, Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press in association with Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, 1992. Ellis, Malcolm Henry, Lachlan Macquarie: his life, adventures and times, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1978. Ritchie, John, Lachlan Macquarie: a biography, Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press; Beaverton, OR: International Specialized Book Services, 1986. |