Lachlan Macquarie: 1824 Funeral Procession

The Late Major-General Lachlan Macquarie

"On Sunday last, between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, the remains of this lamented Officer were removed from Duke-street, St. James's, attended by a most respectable assemblage of nobility and gentry. Among whom were the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Breadalbane, Mr. Justice Park, Sir Alured Clarke, Sir Byam Martin, Sir Henry Torrens, General Hart, General Forbes, Sir Fitzroy Maclean, General Campbell, Sir Edmund Antobus, Sir James Mackintosh, Hon. Colonel Cochrane, Mr. Page, Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Beale, Mr. Booth, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Shank, Mr. M. Forbes, Colonel Lewis, Colonel D. Forbes, Major Carnac, and many more of the deceased's friends, followed by about forty carriages; among which, besides those of the parties present, were those of the Duke of Wellington, The Earl of Harrington, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Bathurst, J. Wilmot Horton, Esq. M.P. the Hon. Basil Cochrane, &c. &c. The whole proceeded through St. James's-square, up Regent-street and Portland-place, entering the New Road by Park Crescent, where the procession dispersed; and the hearse then proceeded along the City-road, accompanied by the deceased's son Master Lachlan Macquarie, his brother Colonel Charles Macquarie, Sir Charles Forbes and his four sons, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Gray, Mr. Meiklejohn, and a few more friends, in mourning coaches; and on arriving at Hermitage Wharf the body was consigned to a vessel chartered for the purpose of conveying it to its last resting place, among the General's ancestors, in the Isle of Mull."

Source:
John Bull 18 July 1824.