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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.His father, Lachlan senior, worked as a carpenter and miller, and was a cousin of a Clan MacQuarrie chieftain.
Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB, "The Father of Australia." Coat of arms belonging to the Chief of the MacQuarries of Ulva. Clan MacQuarrie (also Quarrie , MacQuarie, McQueary, McQuary, MacQuaire, Macquarie ) is an ancient Highland Scottish clan which owned the islands of Ulva , Staffa and Gometra as well as large tracts of land on the Isle ...
Macquarie Hill, formerly known as Mount Macquarie, in Wingecarribee Shire, Southern Highlands, New South Wales. Macquarie Pass, north-east of Robertson, New South Wales. Lachlan Swamps, in Centennial Parklands. Many years after his governorship: Macquarie Park and Macquarie Links, suburbs of Sydney. Macquarie, a suburb of Canberra, Australia.
Evans continued past Mount Blaxland to the Macquarie and Lachlan Rivers and the site of modern Bathurst. [20] Upon his return, he was rewarded with 1000 acres of land in Tasmania. [21] Macquarie then commissioned William Cox in July 1814 to construct a road, following the path taken by the three explorers and extended by Evans. [22]
Liverpool is one of the oldest urban settlements in Australia, founded on 7 November 1810 [2] as an agricultural centre by Governor Lachlan Macquarie.He named it after Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, who was then the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the English city of Liverpool, upon which some of the area's architecture is based.
The Corps, working closely with the newly established wool trader John Macarthur, staged the only successful armed takeover of government in Australian history, deposing Bligh and instigating a brief period of military rule prior to the arrival from Britain of Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1810. [73] [74]
William Lachlan Macquarie Redfern (1819-1904) Robert Joseph Foveaux Redfern (1823-1830) William Redfern (1775 – 17 July 1833) was the Surgeon’s First Mate aboard HMS Standard during the May 1797 Nore mutiny, and at a court martial in August 1797 he was sentenced to death for his involvement.
The library acquired the papers of Lachlan Macquarie and his family in 1914, [18] [19] Matthew Flinders in 1922, and Abel Tasman's journal in 1926, and after World War I collected journals of soldiers from that conflict. [8]