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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lachlan Macquarie has received more than 722,800 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Lachlan Macquarie is the 419th most popular explorer (down from 410th in 2019), the 3,944th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,023rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 419 out of 498. Before him are Man of the Hole, Kristian Prestrud, Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Richard Maack, Alexander Burnes, and Valerian Albanov. After him are Boyd Alexander, Hugh Clapperton, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, John Colter, Charles John Andersson, and Alfred Maudslay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1762, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 32. Before him are Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, Giuseppe Valadier, Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen, Marcos Portugal, Marie Bouliard, and Francis Buchanan-Hamilton. After him are Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, and Joanna Baillie. Among people deceased in 1824, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 36. Before him are Fyodor Alekseyev, David Bushnell, Hans Nielsen Hauge, André Thouin, François Levaillant, and Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert. After him are Caesar Augustus Rodney, Mah Laqa Bai, Jonathan Dayton, Jane Taylor, and Charles Pinckney.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 3,944 out of 8,785. Before him are Gary Daniels (1963), Ælfric of Eynsham (955), Alec Jeffreys (1950), Murray Walker (1923), Thomas Thomson (1817), and Eric Thompson (1919). After him are Albert Lee (1943), Thomas Picton (1758), Donald Nicol (1923), Thomas Love Peacock (1785), Barry Foster (1931), and Florence Pugh (1996).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 50. Before him are Vivian Fuchs (1908), Frederick William Beechey (1796), John McDouall Stuart (1815), Christopher Middleton (1690), Tobias Furneaux (1735), and Alexander Burnes (1805). After him are Boyd Alexander (1873), Hugh Clapperton (1788), Alfred Maudslay (1850), George Nares (1831), Luke Foxe (1586), and Edward John Eyre (1815).

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