List of Famous people with last name Macquarie

Lachlan Macquarie

First Name Lachlan

Last Name Macquarie

Born on January 31, 1762

Died on July 1, 1824 (aged 62)

Born in United Kingdom, Scotland

Major General Lachlan Macquarie, CB was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland. Macquarie served as the fifth and last autocratic 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. In 1816 Macquarie gave orders that led to the Appin Massacre of Gundungurra and Dharawal people.

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