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Lachlan Macquarie

1762 - 1824

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Major General Lachlan Macquarie, CB (; Scottish Gaelic: Lachlann MacGuaire; 31 January 1762 – 1 July 1824) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland. Macquarie served as the fifth 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. Macquarie played a central role in urban planning in the colony. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lachlan Macquarie is the 395th most popular explorer (up from 419th in 2019), the 3,680th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,944th in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 395 out of 498. Before him are Teoberto Maler, Oscar Dickson, Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard, Frank Wild, Yakov Sannikov, and Lourenço de Almeida. After him are Alexander Fersman, García López de Cárdenas, Álvaro Fernandes, Artur Chilingarov, Frederick William Beechey, and George Nares.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1762, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 31. Before him are Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Giuseppe Valadier, Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen, Marcos Portugal, and Francis Buchanan-Hamilton. After him are Marie Bouliard, Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, and Joanna Baillie. Among people deceased in 1824, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 35. Before him are Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, Agustín de Betancourt, Fyodor Alekseyev, Hans Nielsen Hauge, and André Thouin. After him are Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, François Levaillant, Jonathan Dayton, Mah Laqa Bai, Jane Taylor, and Charles Pinckney.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 3,681 out of 8,785. Before him are Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Dave Charlton (1936), Philip Hammond (1955), Henry Salt (1780), John Abbot (1751), and Dorothea Bate (1878). After him are John Houlding (1833), Vincent Nichols (1945), Una Stubbs (1937), Peter Bonetti (1941), Steve Davis (1957), and Jimmy Johnstone (1944).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 50. Before him are John Biscoe (1794), George Bass (1771), John Moresby (1830), Samuel Baker (1821), Alexander Burnes (1805), and Frank Wild (1873). After him are Frederick William Beechey (1796), George Nares (1831), Edward John Eyre (1815), Ernest Henry Wilson (1876), Clements Markham (1830), and Luke Foxe (1586).

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