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Macquarie University Faculty
Macquarie may refer to: People * Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of the British colony of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821. * Elizabeth Macquarie Campbell, Lachlan Macquarie's second wife Places in Australia New South Wales * Division of Macquarie, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives * Lake Macquarie (New South Wales), a lake ** City of Lake Macquarie, a local government area surrounding Lake Macquarie * Macquarie County, one of the 141 Cadastral divisions ** Port Macquarie, a city in Macquarie County * Macquarie Fields, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney * Macquarie Park, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, ** Macquarie Centre, a regional shopping centre located in Macquarie Park * Macquarie River, an inland river ** Macquarie Marshes Nature Reserve * Macquarie Street, Sydney, a street in Sydney Australian Capital Territory * Macquarie, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra Tasmania * Macquarie Island, in the Southern Ocean * Macquar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lachlan Macquarie
Major-general (United Kingdom), Major General Lachlan Macquarie, Companion of the Order of the Bath, CB (; ; 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. He had a significant impact on the development of modern Sydney, establishing the layout upon which the modern Sydney central business district, city centre is based, establishing Hyde Park, Sydney, Hyde Park as Australia's first public park, overseeing the construction of various public buildi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
