Gentleman's Magazine: Obituary

Major-General L. Macquarie.

July.... At his house in Duke-street, St. James's, Major-gen. Lachlan Macquarie, late Governor of New South Wales. This officer entered the service as Ensign in the 2d battalion of the 84th foot, the 9th of April, 1777. He performed garrison duty at Halifax and other parts of Nova Scotia, in North America, for four years, from 1777 to 1781 inclusive. The 18th of January, 1781, he obtained a Lieutenancy in the 1st battalion 71st foot. He did garrison duty at New York and Charlestown in North America, and in the Island of Jamaica in the West Indies for three years. He was reduced on half-pay the 4th of June, 1784; and appointed Lieutenant in the 77th regiment the 25th of December, 1787; and Captain the 9th of November, 1788. Captain Macquarie served in various parts of India from the 3d of August, 1788, to the 1st of January, 1803; he was present at the sieges of Cannanore in 1790, at Seringapatam in 1791, at Cochin in 1795, and at Columbo in 1796. The 3d of May, 1796, he received the rank of Major by brevet, and on the 12th of March, 1801, obtained a Majority in the 86th regt. of Infantry. He continued to serve in various parts of India and in Egypt during the above mentioned periods. He was present at the battle of Seedaseer, and at the siege of Seringapatam in India in 1799; he was on actual service in Malabar and in some petty engagements there, and was present at the siege of Alexandria in Egypt, in the year 1801. The 7th of November, 1801, he was appointed brevet Lieutenant-colonel, and on the 30th May, 1805, Lieutenant-colonel in the 73d foot. He served at home as Assistant-adjutant-general on the London Staff from July, 1803, till April 1805; and afterwards in India with the 86th regiment, in the field, in 1805 and 1806. He returned home in 1807, to join the 73d regiment; and in May 1809, was sent out to New South Wales as a Governor and Commander-in-Chief of that settlement and its dependencies. His high merits in this station we had occasion to notice in speaking of the present flourishing condition of that important settlement. See Part i. p. 897. The 25th of July, 1810, he was promoted to the rank of Colonel; and Feb. 21, 1811, to that of Brig.-gen. He was appointed Major-general June 4, 1813.

On the 11th of July, the remains of this lamented officer were removed from Duke-street, St. James's, attended by a most respectable assemblance of nobility and gentry. The whole proceeded to 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:
Gentleman's Magazine September 1824.

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