Major General Lachlan Macquarie, CB (/məˈkwɒrɪ/; Scottish Gaelic: Lachlann MacGuaire; 31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824) was a British Army officer and colonial...
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John Oxley (section Lachlan River expedition, 1817)
on an expedition of exploration up the Lachlan River in May 1815. Now Macquarie wanted the Lachlan and Macquarie River explored thoroughly. Opening up...
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success it was Governor Lachlan Macquarie who instructed him to find a passage to the west. On 13 November 1813 Governor Lachlan Macquarie sent Evans across...
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future university be named after Lachlan Macquarie, an important early governor of the colony of New South Wales. Macquarie University was formally established...
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three of the first six Governors of New South Wales John Hunter, Lachlan Macquarie (often referred to as the father of Australia) and Thomas Brisbane...
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claimed Macquarie Island for Britain and annexed it to the colony of New South Wales in 1810. The island was named for Colonel Lachlan Macquarie, Governor...
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Evans in 1812, who named the river in honour of Lieutenant-Colonel Lachlan Macquarie, who served as Governor of the Colony of New South Wales from 1810...
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Macquarie may refer to: Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of the British colony of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821. Elizabeth Macquarie née Campbell, Lachlan...
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Ulva (section Lachlan Macquarie)
February 2019. Macquarie, Lachlan. "Journal No. 1: 15 December 1787 – 24 March 1792". Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie Archive. Macquarie University. Archived...
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Bathurst War (section Governor Lachlan Macquarie)
the 100-mile (160 km) road had been completed. Soon after Governor Lachlan Macquarie and a large accompanying party set out to view the country. The journey...
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divisions contested at the first federal election. It is named for Lachlan Macquarie, who was Governor of New South Wales between 1810 and 1821. The division...
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Elizabeth Macquarie (née Elizabeth Henrietta Campbell; 1778–1835) was the second wife of Lachlan Macquarie, who served as Governor of New South Wales from...
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river in 1815, naming it the Lachlan River after Lachlan Macquarie, the governor of the colony of New South Wales. The Lachlan River was substantially explored...
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Centennial Parklands (redirect from Lachlan Swamps)
Sands system. In 1820, Macquarie set aside the water reserve in the east of the Sydney Common. Between 1827 and 1838, Lachlan Water Tunnel was built providing...
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hand carved by convicts in 1810, for Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales. The peninsula itself...
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Lachlan Macquarie, brother of Lt. Colonel Charles MacQuarrie (see above) and Governor of New South Wales, and from whom Port Macquarie and Macquarie Island...
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crime of forgery. In New South Wales he worked for the Governor, Lachlan Macquarie, as Australia's first government architect. He became widely known...
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General Lachlan Macquarie, the fifth Colonial Governor of New South Wales. James Kelly wrote in his narrative First Discovery of Port Davey and Macquarie Harbour...
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Designed by Francis Greenway the foundation stone of Fort Macquarie was laid by Governor Lachlan Macquarie on 17 December 1817. The stone used was from the nearby...
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remained in control until the 1810 arrival from Britain of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, who took over as governor. William Bligh succeeded Philip Gidley...
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Institute of Architects. Retrieved 21 January 2014. "News & media, The Lachlan Macquarie Award for Heritage". Australian Institute of Architects. Retrieved...
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Oxley named the location after the Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie. Oxley noted that "the natives in the vicinity of the port appeared...
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several people Lachlan Macleay (born 1931), American officer in the United States Air Force, trained as an astronaut Lachlan Macquarie (1762–1824), Scottish...
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Colony, and from 1810 to 1821, he was "great assistant" to Governor Lachlan Macquarie. Wentworth led a campaign for the rights and recognition of emancipists...
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and that the British Foreign Office had declared it to be a mutiny. Lachlan Macquarie had been appointed to replace him as governor. At this news Bligh...
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founded on 7 November 1810 as an agricultural centre by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. He named it after Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, who...
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Street. It is named in honour of Governor Lachlan Macquarie. The precinct includes The Obelisk or Macquarie Obelisk, the Sirius anchor and gun/cannon...
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Capital Territory, Australia. Macquarie was gazetted as a division on 22 June 1967 in recognition of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, a former Governor of New...
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Retrieved 31 January 2022. "Macquarie University - Our building". Macquarie University. "Lachlan and Elizabeth Macquarie Room". Macquarie University....
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member of Sydney-based Macquarie Group Limited. The company took its name from Macquarie Bank, which took its name from Lachlan Macquarie, who was Governor...
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