Lachlann Macquarie
Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB (
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Scottish Gaelic spelling:
Lachlann MacGuaire;
31 January 1762
– 1 July 1824), was a Scottish
British army officer and colonial administrator. He served as the last autocratic
Governor of New South Wales, Australia
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.
An inscription on his tomb in Scotland describes him as "The Father of Australia"
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