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Wikipedia: Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB, was a British military 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 some 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.
![[Lachlan Macquarie attributed to John Opie (1761-1807)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Ln_Governor_Lachlan_macquarie_s.jpg "Lachlan Macquarie attributed to John Opie (1761-1807)")
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