Record ID:
35686253 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 17610131
  • Ulva (Scotland)
Death:
  • 18240701
  • London (England)
Associated with:
  • Great Britain Scotland Australia New South Wales Van Diemen's Land
Occupations:
  • Governors Colonial administrators Armies--Officers
Used for:
  • Macquarie, Lachlan, Governor of New South Wales
See also:
Notes:
  • Major General British Army 5th Governor of New South Wales
  • Use corporate form only for works by the Governor acting in his official capacity. For all other works by this author use the personal form of the name.
  • SUBJECT USAGE: The personal form is the only form of the name valid for use as a subject. Works about this person are entered under Macquarie, Lachlan, 1761-1824.
  • WWW Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Macquarie
  • Phillips, M. A colonial autocracy ... 1909.
  • Oxford DNB online, viewed 6 March 2019: (Macquarie, Lachlan (1761-1824); army officer and colonial governor born on 31 January 1761 on the Hebridean islet of Ulva; left England for India in 1788; finally promoted to lieutenant-colonel (1805) and was military secretary (1800-03, 1805-7) to the governor of Bombay; sail for Botany Bay in command of the 73rd regiment; on 27 April 1809 he learned that he was to be appointed governor-in-chief of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land. He held office from 1 January 1810 to 30 November 1821; died on 1 July 1824 in rented rooms at 49 Duke Street, St James's, London; his body was buried on his estate, Gruline, on Mull)
Local system number:
  • 000000690348
  • abv01011897
  • (VSL)1558181
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX23673
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda NSL DLC StEdNL VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc