What is Lachlan Macquarie?
{{Infobox governor | honorific-prefix = [[Major General]] | name = Lachlan Macquarie | honorific-suffix = [[Companion of the Order of the Bath|CB]] | image = Ln-Governor-Lachlan macquarie.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth-date|31 January 1762}} | birth_place = [[Ulva]], [[Inner Hebrides]], Scotland | death_date = {{Death date and age|1824|7|1|1762|1|31|df=y}} | death_place = [[London]], England | spouse = Jane Jarvis (m. 1792–1796)<br>[[Elizabeth Macquarie|Elizabeth Campbell]] (1807–1835) | order = 5th [[Governor of New South Wales]] | term_start = 1 January 1810 | term_end = 30 November 1821 | monarch = [[George III of the United Kingdom|George III]] | successor = [[Thomas Brisbane]] | predecessor = [[William Bligh]] | allegiance = {{Flagcountry|United Kingdom}} | branch = [[British Army]] | serviceyears = | rank = [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major General]] | unit = | commands = [[73rd (Perthshire) Regiment of Foot]] | battles = [[American Revolutionary War]]<br/>[[Napoleonic Wars]]<br/>[[Australian Frontier Wars]] | mawards = [[Companion of the Order of the Bath]] }} [[Major-General]] '''Lachlan Macquaire''' [[Order of the Bath|CB]] (31 January 1762<ref name=adb>N. D. McLachlan, '[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020162b.htm Macquarie, Lachlan (1762 - 1824)]', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, Melbourne University Press, 1967, pp 187-195.]</ref> – 1 July 1824) <ref>The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation: its people and their origins. (2001) James Jupp p650 Cambridge University Press。</ref> was a [[British]] military officer and the fifth [[Governor of New South Wales]] from 1810 to 1821. Macquarie had a leading role in the social, [[economic]] and [[Architecture|architectural]] development of [[Australia]]. Historians say he changed New South Wales from a [[penal colony]] to a free settlement. This was very important in making the future of Australian society. ==Early life == Macquarie was born on the island of [[Ulva]], in the [[Inner Hebrides]], [[Scotland]].<ref name=adb