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Name: Lachlan Macquarie
Birth Date: January 31, 1762
Death Date: July 1, 1824
Place of Birth: Inner Hebrides
Place of Death: London, England
Nationality: Scottish
Gender: Male
Occupations: officer, governor

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Biography of Lachlan Macquarie
491 words, approx. 2 pages
Lachlan Macquarie (1762-1824), British officer and governor of New South Wales, sought to improve the status of emancipists and undertook a major public works program. Lachlan Macquarie, born on January 31, 1762, came from a poor Scottish family in the...


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Lachlan Macquarie Information
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Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB (31 January, 1762[1] – 1 July, 1824; Scottish Gaelic spelling: Lachlan MacGuaire), British military officer and colonial administrator, served as Governor of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821 and had a leading role...


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The Sunday Telegraph London
Australia gets its own back Two centuries ago Lachlan Macquarie demonstrated his entrepreneurial spirit in New South Wales. Now a bank named after him is trying to do the same in London. Robert Watts looks at one of the suitors for the London Stock Exc
11/13/2005: 1,179 words, approx. 4 pages
In 1809 a British colonial administrator named Lachlan Macquarie set sail to govern the convicts of New South Wales. Nearly 200 years later an aggressive Australian investment bank bearing his name has arrived in London, intent on seizing control of one of the Square...
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Daily Variety
Lachlan limited in exit.(Lachlan Murdoch of News Corp.)
08/04/2005: 374 words, approx. 1 pages
Lachlan Murdoch, News Corp.'s now famously former heir apparent, has agreed not to work for a rival media company for two years or seek to steal employees from his family-owned company during that time, according to a document filed Wednesday with the SEC. ...
 


 

Lachlan Macquarie

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