Old Photograph Lachlan Macquarie Mausoleum Scotland

Old photograph of the Major General Lachlan Macquarie Mausoleum on the island of Isle of Mull, Scotland. Lachlan Macquarie was born on 31 January 1762, on the island of the Ulva off the coast of the Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, a chain of islands off the West Coast of Scotland. He was descended from the Scottish Highland family clan MacQuarrie which possessed Ulva, Staffa, and a region of the Isle of Mull for over one thousand years, and his forebears were buried on Iona. He left the island of Mull at the age of 14 and soon volunteered for the army. He joined the 84th Regiment of Foot on 9 April 1777, travelling with it to North America in 1777 to take part in the American War of Independence. On 18 January 1781, he was promoted to lieutenant and transferred to the 71st Highland Regiment of Foot, and served with them in New York, Charleston, USA, and Jamaica. In 1807 on 8 May he was appointed Governor of New South Wales on the east coast of Australia. In 1793 he married Jane Jarvis, daughter of the Chief Justice of Antigua. Three years later she died of tuberculosis. Macquarie returned to Scotland, and died in London, England, in 1824. He was buried on the Isle of Mull in a remote mausoleum with his wife and son. His grave in Mull is inscribed " The Father of Australia. "



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