BADGERY, James (1769-1827)
Free settler in NSW.

BAIRD, Sir David (1757-1829)
Soldier.

BALFOUR, General Nisbet (1743-1823)
Soldier.

BAMPTON, William Wright (1759-1813)
Merchant sea-captain of the Bombay country ships Shah Hormuzear, Neptune and Endeavour.
Undertook a speculative trading voyage to Sydney in February 1793 in command of the Shah Hormuzear. Departed from Sydney in June 1793 for Norfolk Island and India via Torres Strait. Bampton Reef, approx. 500 nautical miles east of the Whitsundays, Australia, commemorates his passage. The Shah Hormuzear returned to Bombay on 1 February 1794. Macquarie and his wife Jane dined with Bampton and his wife Sarah in Bombay on 20 May 1794.
Bampton returned to Sydney in May 1795 in command of the 800-ton Endeavour with a consignment of cattle and provisions. The ship was subsequently scuttled in October 1795 in Facile Harbour, Dusky Sound, New Zealand. Bampton returned to India where he continued trading as a merchant sea captain.
Married. Sarah Elizabeth (nee Hussey (1763-) on 11 July 1784 at St Saviour, Southwark, Surrey.
Children (3): William Wright Bampton (1785-1845); Sarah Elizabeth Bampton (1787-1832); Richard Charles Bampton.
Died: 9 August 1813, in Calcutta.
[Sources: Bengal Wills. IOR Wills 1780-1909; Gentleman's Magazine. April 1814, p.408; East India Register 1815; Historical Records of New Zealand Vol. 2 pp.518-534; personnal communication: Judy Barradell-Smith (2011-2012)

BAYLY, Nicholas (1770-1823)
Military officer (NSW Corps) and settler.
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 1; also available online].

BAYLY, Sarah [nee Laycock] (1783-1820)
Wife of Nicholas Bayly (c.1769-1823).

BELL, Archibald (1773-1837) - Lieutenant
Military officer (NSW Corps) magistrate and landowner.
Arrived as an ensign in 1807; he was appointed a magistrate in January 1808 and served as commandant at the Hawkesbury; he went to England as a witness at Major Johnson's trial and returned in 1811 as a lieutenant in the New South Wales Royal Veterans Company; from 1812 to 1818 he commanded the 73rd Regiment detachment at Windsor and acted as Barrack Master in 1818; he was appointed Chief Magistrate at Windsor in 1820; he was a founder of the Hawkesbury Benevolent Society and, from 1819, a committee member of the Native Institution; he received substantial land grants and resided on his property at North Richmond known as 'Belmont'.
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 1; also available online].

BELL, Maria [nee Kitching] (c.1777-1841)
Wife of Lieutenant Archibald Bell, NSW Corps. Accompanied her husband to NSW in 1807 with their family of possibly eight children on board the Young William: Elizabeth (c.1800-1874); Mary Ann (c.1801-18**); Frances (c1802 -1876 ); William Sims ( c.1803-1875); Archibald c.1804-1883); Matilda (c.1805-18**); and Sophia Hume (1807-1829)[born at sea]. Additional children were born in NSW: Rebecca (1811-1818); James Thomas (1813-1861). At least three children appear to have died in infancy.

BELL, Thomas - Major
Military officer (48th Regiment).
Arrived in Sydney on the Lloyds in 1817 as commander of a detachment of the 48th Regiment; in 1818 he was sent to Hobart in the Lady Castlereagh to command the military garrison there and was appointed a justice of the peace, engineer and inspector of public works; he departed the Colony for Madras in 1824.

BELLINGSHAUSEN, Faddei Faddeevich (Fabian) (1778 - 1852)
Russian admiral and explorer - visited Sydney in 1820.
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 1; also available online].

BENT, Ellis (1783 -1815)
Deputy Judge Advocate [NSW].
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

BENT, Jeffery (1781-1852)
Judge, Supreme Court of Civil Judicature.[NSW]
A severe opponent to Macquarie's governorship and authority in the period 1814-1816.
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

BIGG, Joseph (BIGGE, BIGGS) (17??-1833)
Macquarie 's coachman.
[see: Profile]

BIGGE, John Thomas (1780-1843)
Judge and Royal Commissioner.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 1; also available online].

BIRCH, John (c.1782-1835)
Paymaster: 73rd Regiment; served in NSW/VDL: 1810-1814.

BIRCH, Mary Arabella (1792-1882)
Mary Birch (nee Forbes), wife of Lieutenant John Birch (c.1782-1835), Paymaster of the 73rd Regiment.

BLAQUIETRE, John Blaquiere, (1732–1812), 1st Baron de Blaquiere KCB, PC.
Known as Sir John Blaquiere, Bt, from 1784 to 1800, he was a British soldier, diplomat and politician of French descent. He served as Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1772 and 1777. Blaquiere at first served in the 18th Dragoons (later the 17th Dragoons), where he achieved the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Lord de Blaquiere also sat as a Member of the British House of Commons for Rye from 1801 to 1802, and for Downton from 1802 to 1806. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1803.

BLAXLAND, Gregory (1778-1853)
Settler, explorer in NSW.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 1; also available online].

BLAXLAND, John (1769-1845)
Landowner and merchant in NSW.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 1; also available online].

BLIGH William (1754-1817)
Naval officer, 4th. Governor of NSW (1806-1808). Controversial figure who provoked two mutinies: a naval mutiny on HMS Bounty in Tahiti in April 1789, and a military mutiny in Sydney in January 1808. Lachlan Macquarie replaced Bligh as Governor of NSW on 1 Jnuary 1810.
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 1; also available online].

BLUE, William ('Billy') (c1767-1834)
Convict, ferryman, settler in NSW.
Personal friend of governor Macquarie, with whom he claimed to have served in North America during the American War of Independence.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 1; also available online].

BOWSER, Thomas
Private in the 48th Regiment of Foot; steerage passenger on board the Surry in 1822 during the Macquaries return voyage to England.

BRISBANE, Sir Thomas Makdougall (1773-1860)
Soldier, and Governor of NSW.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 1; also available online].

BROOKS, Captain Richard (1765?-1833)
Sailor, merchant and settler.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 1; also available online].

BROUGHTON, William (1768 - 1821)
Servant to Surgeon John White, and later, a successful free settler in NSW.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 1; also available online].

BROWNE, William (? -1833)
"Merchant Browne", of the firm of Browne & Turner of Calcutta.

BUNGAREE [also BONGAREE, BOUNGAREE] (d.1830)
Indigenous Australian. [NSW]
Accompanied Matthew Flinders in the Investigator in 1801-1802 and became the first Aboriginal to circumnavigate Australia. Macquarie favoured Bungaree and in 1815 established a farm at George's Head (Mosman) with huts, implements, stock and convict instructors for his benefit, as well as other members of his collateral group. The venture failed. Macquarie also issued Bungaree with a brass breastplate inscribed 'Bungaree: Chief of the Broken Bay Tribe', a totally meaningless title and attribution. Nevertheless he was a prominent and conspicuous individual in Sydney who regularly boarded visiting ships in the harbour and entertained the ships' crews. In particular, he met with the members of the Russian scientific expedition under the command of Thaddeus Bellingshausen in 1820. Bungaree died on 24 November 1830 and was buried at Rose Bay.
[see: SMITH, Keith Vincent. King Bungaree: a Sydney Aborigine meets the great South Pacific explorers, 1799 -1830. Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1992 and the Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 1; also available online].

BUNKER, Eber (1761-1836)
American-born sea captain and farmer. Active role in commanding whaling and sealing expeditions along the Australian and New Zealand coastlines. Major farming interests in the Liverpool region [NSW].
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol. 1; also available online].

BURROWES, Arnold (1749-1819) - Reverend
Senior Military Chaplain (HEIC) at Bombay for 42 years.
Born in 1749. Son of Thomas Burrowes (d.1764), High Sheriff of County Cavan, Ireland, in 1743 and Justice of the Peace (J.P.) for County Cavan in 1744, and Jane Nesbitt, daughter of Colonel Thomas Nesbitt. Arnold Burrowes arrived in India in 1773, aged 24 years, and served as a chaplain in Bombay until 1813. He performed the marriage service for Lachlan Macquarie and Jane Jarvis on 8 September 1793, and probably also conducted the burial service for Jane in the burial ground at Sonapur, Bombay, on 17 January 1797.
During his 42-year period as chaplain he never took leave to visit Britain, however he did eventually return to Britain, departing Bombay in December 1813 and arriving in London on 3 June 1814. He died on 31 May 1819, at Queens-Square, Bath, aged 70 years, unmarried.
Gentleman's Magazine 1819 Vol.125 p,587; Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies. 1819 Vol. 8 p.101.

BURT, Patrick (c1748 - )
Sailor. First Mate on the HEIC ship Dublin in 1784/1785 and 1788/1789.
[see: Macquarie, L. Journal: 30 March 1788; Farrington, A. A Biographical Index of East India Company Maritime Service Officers 1600-1834. p.120.

BUTCHER, John
Soldier: 73rd Regiment and servant to Macquarie in NSW.

BYRNE, Hugh
Political exile.

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