AUSTRALIA 2010 GOVERNOR LACHLAN MACQUARIE

The Father of Australia
Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB (January 31, 1762 - July 1, 1824) 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. The inscription on his tomb in Scotland describes him as "The Father of Australia".