Biographical: Lachlan & Elizabeth Macquarie

Books

The Age of Macquarie. (eds.) James Broadbent and Joy Hughes. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1992.

BARNARD, Marjorie. Macquarie's World. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1949, [2nd edition].

CAMPBELL, Alastair, of Airds. A History of Clan Campbell. Edinburgh: Polygon, 2000-2003 [3 vols].

COHEN, Lysbeth. Elizabeth Macquarie: her life and times. Sydney: Wentworth Books, 1979.

CURRIE, J. Mull: the island and its people. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2000.

ELLIS, M. H. Lachlan Macquarie: his life, adventures, and times. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1952 [2nd ed. revised].

MARSDEN, Fiona. Lachlan Macquarie: from Mull to Australia. Tobermory, Scotland: Brown & Whittaker, 2001.

MUNRO, R.W. Lachlan MacQuarrie XVI of Ulva, with notes on some clansmen in India. Karachi: [R.W. Munro], 1944.

MUNRO, R.W. and MacQUARRIE, Alan. Clan MacQuarrie - a history. Auburn, Mass.: Privately Printed, 1996.

PHILLIPS, Marion. A Colonial Autocracy: New South Wales under Governor Macquarie, 1810-1821. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 1971 [Originally publ. London: P.S. King & Son, 1909].

RITCHIE, John. Lachlan Macquarie: a biography. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986.

The Macquarie Book: the life and times of Governor Lachlan Macquarie. (eds.) Sydney Ure Smith and Bertram Stevens. Sydney: Art in Australia, 1921. [Art in Australia No.10, 1921].

TRAVERS, B.H. The Captain-General: being a study of Lachlan Macquarie Governor of New South Wales 1809-1821. Sydney: Shakespeare Head Press, 1953.

WALSH, Robin. In Her Own Words: the writings of Elizabeth Macquarie. Wollombi, NSW: Exisle Publishing & Macquarie University, 2011.

Journal Articles & Chapter in Books

Bertie, Charles H. "Governor Macquarie." Royal Australian Historical Society. Journal. Vol. 16, Part 1,1930 pp.22-51.

Biskup, Peter. "The Strange Case of the Manuscripts of Major General Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales." Journal of Australian Studies. No. 23 Nov. 1988, pp.79-93.

Casey, Mary. "A Patina of Age: Elizabeth Macquarie (née) Campbell and the Influence of the Buildings and Landscape of Argyll, Scotland, in Colonial New South Wales." International Journal of Historical Archaeology. Volume 14, Number 3, September 2010 , pp. 335-356.

Clarke, Patricia. "Mrs Macquarie's Earrings." National Library of Australia News. Vol. X Number 10 July 2000 pp.3-6. [See online version (pdf)]

Coltheart, Lenore and Bridges, Peter. "The Elephant's Bed? Scottish Enlightenment Ideas and the Foundations of New South Wales." in Scatterlings of Empire. (eds.) Wilfred Prest and Graham Tulloch. Journal of Australian Studies No. 68, 2001 pp.19-33.

Conolly, Pauline. "Loving Legacies: Elizabeth Macquarie and Her Friends." Quadrant March 2010 No. 464 pp.79-82.

Conolly, Pauline. "The Strange Story of the Macquarie Mausoleum." Quadrant. June 2009 pp.66-68.

Conolly, Pauline. "The Two Wives of Hector Macquarie." History: magazine of the Royal Australian Historical Society. June 2010 pp.10-12.

d'Apice, Richard. "Lachlan Macquarie - a proud Scots clansman." Heritage NSW. [Newsletter of the Heritage Council of NSW]. Winter 2010 Vol. 18 No. 1 pp. 4-5.

Ellis, M.H. "Governor Lachlan Macquarie." Royal Australian Historical Society. Journal. Vol. 28, 1942, pp.375-475.

Fletcher, Brian. "Lachlan Macquarie." in The Governors of New South Wales 1788-2010. (eds.) David Clune and Ken Turner. Annandale, NSW: The Federation Press, 2009 pp.107-125

McGuanne, J.P. "Lachlan Macquarie and his Times up to 1810." Royal Australian Historical Society. Journal. Vol. 4, Part 2, 1917, pp. 49 -124.

Manera, Brad. "'A Friend and Protector': Lachlan Macquarie's Sword." Wartime: The Official Magazine of the Australian War Memorial No. 1 November 1997.

Manera, Brad. "To Arm A Governor - Lachlan Macquarie's Sword." Sabretache Vol. XXXVI January/March 1995 pp. 26-29.

Massov, A. "Macquarie's Voyage from Astrakhan to Saint Petersburg and the making of Russian-Australian Contacts (on the 200th anniversary of the beginning of Russian-Australian relations) Izvestiya Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obshchestva, 2007, 139, 2, 70-77). [In Russian].

Massov, A. "Lachlan Macquarie in Russia." Australian Slavonic and East European Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 1-2 (2008) pp.45-59.

Munro, R.W. "Governor Lachlan Macquarie and His Family Circle." Scottish Genealogist. Vol. 36, Part 1, 1989, pp.7-21.

Page, Anthony. "Enlightenment, Empire and Lachlan Macquarie's Journey through Persia and Russia." History Australia Vol. 6 Number 3, 2009 pp. 70.1-70.15.

Parsons, T.G. "Governor Macquarie and the Economic Crisis in New South Wales, 1810-1815." New Zealand Journal of History. 1968 Vol.2 (2) pp.178-200.

Read, Stuart. "Elizabeth Macquarie - a partner in design." Heritage NSW. [Newsletter of the Heritage Council of NSW]. Winter 2010 Vol. 18 No. 1 pp. 8-9.

Ritchie, J. "Macquarie's Style of Governing." Bulletin of the Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies. Vol. 3 No.1 1990/91 pp.52-62.

Silvester, Diane. "Governor Lachlan Macquarie, Sir James Mackintosh and the Scottish Enlightenment". Journal of Australian Colonial History Vol. 12, 2010 pp.23-38.

Sumner, Christine. "Governor Macquarie's Tahitian Souvenir." Australian Antique Collector. Vol. 39 [Jan-June] 1990 pp.63-65.

Walsh, Robin. "1807: the unknown Lachlan Macquarie." History: magazine of the Royal Australian Historical Society." 2005 Vol. 86, p.6-7.

Dramatic Works

ANTILL, John Macquarie and ANTILL-DE WARREN, Rose. The Emancipist: an historical drama in three acts. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1936.

BUZO, Alex. Macquarie. Sydney: Currency Press, 1993 [Rev. ed.]

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