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  Lachlan Macquarie
Lachlan Macquarie was born on the tiny island of Ulva, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland and grew up on the nearby larger island of Mull.
The colony's first military governor (previous holders of the office had all been navy men), Macquarie was able to draw on his experience as a staff officer in the raising and organisation of colonial revenue-measures in this area included the introduction of coinage (1813) and the establishment of the colony's first bank (1817).
Macquarie's resignation was accepted in 1821 and he sailed for England in 1822.
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  Macquarie, Lachlan (1762 - 1824) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
MACQUARIE, LACHLAN (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.
Macquarie's mother, Margaret, was the only sister of Murdoch Maclaine, chieftain of Lochbuy in Mull, and as a widow she farmed her pendicle of Oskamull, with her eldest son Donald and Farquhar Maclaine, until her death in 1810 at 82.
Macquarie was to accompany his regiment, but the prospect of going abroad again so soon did not please him, especially as he reckoned that he was already the oldest lieutenant-colonel in the army and feared that the colony would be too remote to assist his further promotion.
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 Lachlan Macquarie Summary
Lachlan Macquarie was born in the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, a chain of islands off the West Coast of Scotland.
Macquarie was buried on the Isle of Mull in a remote mausoleum with his wife and son.
Macquarie River a significant inland river in New South Wales which passes Bathurst, Wellington, Dubbo and Warren before entering the Macquarie Marshes and the Barwon River.
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 Lachlan Macquarie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
Lachlan Macquarie was born on the island of Ulva in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland on 31 January 1762.
His father, Lachlan Macquarie, was a cousin of the sixteenth and last chieftain of the clan MacQuarrie, while Macquarie's mother, Margaret was the only sister of Murdoch Maclaine, chieftain of Lochbuy in Mull.
Macquarie returned to England in 1803 to attend to financial matters, but in 1805 he returned to India where he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the 73rd Regiment.
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 Lachlan Macquarie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB (31 January 1762 1 July 1824), British military officer and colonial administrator, served as Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821 and had a leading role in the social, economic and architectural development of that colony.
Lachlan Macquarie was born on the island of Ulva off the coast of the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, a chain of islands off the West Coast of Scotland.
Macquarie was buried on the Isle of Mull in a remote mausoleum with his wife and son.
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 Australian Antarctic Division - Lachlan Macquarie
Macquarie was born on the island of Ulva in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland, on 31 January 1761.
Macquarie's main aim in returning to Britain was to marry his distant cousin Elizabeth Henrietta Campbell, of Airds, whom he had met in 1804 to whom he had been secretly engaged since March 1805.
Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie sailed with the 73rd Regiment from Portsmouth in the storeship Dromedary, escorted by H.M.S Hindostan, in May 1809, arriving at Port Jackson on 28 December.
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 Macquarie University Library - About Us - Lachlan Macquarie Room
Macquarie University Library - About Us - Lachlan Macquarie Room
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Lachlan Macquarie
Lachlan Macquarie was born on the island of Ulva off the coast of the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, a chain of islands off the West Coast of Scotland.
Macquarie's policies, especially his championing of the emancipists and the lavish expenditure of government money on public works, aroused opposition both in the colony and in London, where the government still saw New South Wales as a place to dump convicts and not as a future dominion of the Empire.
Macquarie Street, one of the principal streets of the historic town of Evandale, Tasmania.
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 Elena Govor. The Russian Odyssey of Governor Macquarie
The Macquarie’s diary is an evidence of his intention to welcome the Russians as warmly as possible.
Macquarie launched an energetic activity and, finally, obtained the Bill, but in Astrakhan he got convinced that Gureev had been right: the local authorities locked him in quarantine for 25 days.
Macquarie’s misfortune in Russia was described by him so lively that in a mind of a Russian reader they awake a familiar feeling of full helplessness before authority.
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 Resources - 1810 to 1821 - Governor Lachlan Macquarie
Control of the colony by the army rebels of the Rum Rebellion of 1808 was ended in 1810, with the arrival of Lachlan Macquarie as the new Governor.
As a result, Macquarie was censured by Lord Bathurst, the Secretary of State for Colonies, and eventually a commissioner, J. Bigge, was sent to inquire into affairs in NSW.
Upon his arrival in the Colony of NSW at the end of 1810, Governor Macquarie discovered that the town hospital was an affair of tents and temporary buildings established in the notorious "Rocks" area when the First Fleet arrived in 1788.
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 Governors of NSW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
Macquarie was the fifth Governor of the colony of New South Wales.
Macquarie tried to be on friendly terms with the Aboriginal peoples and to compensate for them being driven from their traditional homes.
Macquarie founded new towns to the west of Sydney and Port Macquarie in the north, encouraging exploration to the west and along the coast.
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 Macquarie, Lachlan
Born on the Hebrides Islands, Macquarie joined the British army in 1776 and served in Canada, India, and Egypt and fought in the American War of Independence.
His liberal policy towards emancipists (freed convicts), as in appointing them to public positions, aroused the opposition of many free settlers, and mainly as a result of this, Commissioner John Bigge was sent to report on the colony.
Macquarie greatly resented criticisms of him made in the Bigge Report published after his resignation 1821.
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 macquarie
Macquarie came back to England in 1803 to attend to financial matters, but in 1805 he returned to India where he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the 73rd Regiment.
Macquarie and his wife arrived in Sydney Cove on board the "Dromedary" at the end of December 1809 as Lieutenant Colonel of the 73d Highland Regiment.
Macquarie had hoped to have 3 months in which to familiarize Brisbane with his administration and policies before handing over the government to him, but Sir Thomas Brisbane would have none of that.
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 Colonel Lachlan Macquarie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
Colonel Lachlan Macquarie (31 January 1762–1 July 1824), British military officer and colonial administrator, served as Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821 and had a leading role in the social, economic and architectural development of the colony.
Lachlan Macquarie was born in the Isle of Mull in the Hebrides islands of Scotland.
Macquarie was a conservative disciplinarian who believed, in the words of the historian Manning Clark, "that the Protestant religion and British institutions were indispensable both for liberty and for a high material civilisation."
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 Campbelltown City Council
Lachlan Macquarie was Governor of the penal colony of NSW from 1810 to 1822.
Macquarie was encouraged by the fertile land of the surrounding district and the promising start made by several early European industrious land grantees.
Lachlan Macquarie founded the town of "Campbelltown" in 1820 and named it after his wife's maiden name 'Campbell' a famous clan in Scotland.
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 Lachlan Macquarie - Encyclopedia.com
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Lachlan signs up second practice; Retireinvest welcomes 11 advisers.
Macquarie Bank suffers a fate worse than insider trading.
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 Macquarie Manor - History of Macquarie Manor
Named after former Governor Lachlan Macquarie, the Manor was the centre of Hobart's high society in the latter part of the 19th century, then more recently as the administration and social headquarters of the Royal Automobile Club of Tasmania (RACT).
In April 1809, Lachlan Macquarie was appointed Governor of New South Wales, and designated to replace William Bligh whose governorship had been wracked with controversy.
Macquarie, as Governor in Chief of the Australian colonies, was responsible for the administration of Van Diemens Land from Sydney.
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Lachlan Macquarie was born in 1762 on the island of Mull, one of the Argyllshire Hebrides.
Macquarie met J. on his voyage to Australia when touching at the Cape of Good Hope in 1809 and he lived with the Macquarie family for many years.
Macquarie also stated that he had discharged the various and arduous duties of his office with assiduity, zeal, firmness, honour and incorruptible integrity.
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 Lachlan Macquarie - Governor of NSW
Macquarie was born on the island of Ulva in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland, on 31
Lachlan Macquarie, was a cousin of the sixteenth and last chieftain of the clan Macquarie, while Macquarie's mother, Margaret, (1728-1810) was the only sister of Murdoch Maclaine, chieftain of Lochbuy in Mull.
Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie sailed with the 73rd Regiment from Portsmouth in the storeship Dromedary, escorted by H.M.S Hindostan, in May 1809, arriving at Port Jackson on the 28
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 Macquarie Lachlan - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Macquarie Lachlan - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Macquarie, Lachlan (1762-1824), British soldier and colonial administrator, one of the most progressive early governors of New South Wales.
Bligh’s replacement, Lachlan Macquarie, served as Governor from 1809 until 1821.
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 National Centre for History Education - Commonwealth History Project :: Lachlan & Elizabeth Macquarie
Mrs Macquarie was praised at times for the tables (meals) that she organised and at others for her endurance - there were days when she was seven hours in the saddle.
Lachlan Macquarie went about as if he were a prince, waited on hand and foot.
Macquarie deplored the habit of soldiers and convict men living in sin with a 'concubine' instead of a wife.
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 Macquarie University, Culture on Campus
It is the first Australian research initiative to directly investigate the role of Lachlan Macquarie in the initial transfer of political power in Sri Lanka’s coastal regions from Dutch to British administration in 1796.
Lachlan Macquarie arrived in Bombay on 3 August 1788 and thereafter his life was irrevocably linked to people and events in South Asia.
The Lachlan Macquarie Room is located on Level 1 of the Macquarie University Library and is a complete reconstruction of the original ground floor parlour room of Macquarie’s house on the Isle of Mull, Scotland.
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 Топик по английскому: Lachlan Macquarie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
Lachlan Macquarie governed N.S.W from January 1810 until november 1821.
The reason why these ideals ▒had no real chance of success▓ was that he lacked support from the british government and there was a succession of quarrels between him and the exclusives of N.S.W. Macquarie strived for a state of equality in his colony.
Egalitarian concepts can be seen in Macquaries land policy.he believed that crown land should be divided up evenly between the free settlers and the ex-convicts, whilst the free settlers believed that they had a right to larger land grants.
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 Clan MacQuarrie: A History
Lachlan, now based in London as an assistant adjutant-general, managed to get two months' leave to visit Scotland and reached Mull in time to be with his old friend and patron Lochbuie for the week before his death on 5 July.
Lachlan had been pressing his brother to purchase Ulva since 1819, but in the end this ambition was not to be fulfilled in his lifetime.
771); trustees included Hector Macquarie; the lands of Ulva and Glenforsa were left in trust and £5000 was left for the children, £3000 to the eldest son and heir male Charles, and £2000 to be divided equally among the three other sons and one daughter, upon their reaching the age of 21.
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 Tassie ABCs M-words.
Lachlan Macquarie was born on an island in the Scottish Hebrides in 1762, joined the Army at 14 and spent several years in India.
Macquarie was married twice, once briefly to a woman called Jane who died of tuberculosis, then to a distant cousin named Elizabeth Campbell.
Lachlan Macquarie was Governor of New South Wales for several years, but his entry here is because he travelled extensively in Van Diemens Land (as Tasmania was then known) in 1811 and 1821.
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