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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 662,157 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Lachlan Macquarie is the 411th most popular explorer (down from 375th in 2019), the 4,031st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,835th in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Explorer.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.98

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 411 out of 405. Before him are Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón, George Back, Lars Christensen, Gombojab Tsybikov, Boyd Alexander, and Mikhail Somov. After him are Georgy Ushakov, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Isaac Israel Hayes, Fyodor Konyukhov, Artur Chilingarov, and Vassili Poyarkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1762, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 29. Before him are Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Francis Buchanan-Hamilton, Karl Ludwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Marcos Portugal, Princess Caroline of Nassau-Usingen, and Giuseppe Valadier. After him are Joanna Baillie and Bushrod Washington. Among people deceased in 1824, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 31. Before him are Ercole Consalvi, Agustín de Betancourt, David Bushnell, Fyodor Alekseyev, Hans Nielsen Hauge, and François Levaillant. After him are Blasius Merrem, Ludwig Wilhelm Gilbert, Jonathan Dayton, Caesar Augustus Rodney, and Charles Pinckney.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 4,031 out of 7,765. Before him are Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764), Kenneth Clark (1903), Robert Newton (1905), Martin McGuinness (1950), Edward Alleyn (1566), and Ramón Zabalo (1910). After him are Guy Butler (1899), William Gemmell Cochran (1909), Tommy Cooper (1921), Alan Woods (1944), Patrick Abercrombie (1879), and Steve Hillage (1951).

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Among EXPLORERS In United Kingdom

Among explorers born in United Kingdom, Lachlan Macquarie ranks 64. Before him are Vivian Fuchs (1908), Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764), John Moresby (1830), Herbert Ponting (1870), George Back (1796), and Boyd Alexander (1873). After him are Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886), John Rae (1813), Edgeworth David (1858), William Lashly (1867), Ed Stafford (1975), and David Thompson (1770).

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