MACARTHUR, Elizabeth (c.1767-1850)
Wife of John Macarthur, pastoralist, businesswoman.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

MACARTHUR, Hannibal (1788-1861)
Pastoralist, politician and businessman.
Son of James Macarthur, elder brother of John Macarthur (1767-1834). Joined his uncle in NSW in 1805 but returned to Britain in 1810. Arrived in Sydney again in 1812 and concentrated on his farming and business interests. He held a position of social prominence and financial security in the colony and formed part of the group of 'exclusives' opposed to many of Macquarie's initiatives and emancipist policies in NSW.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

MACARTHUR, John (1767-1834)
Military officer: NSW Corps], pastoralist.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

McCALLUM, Dr. Daniel (d.1818)
Irish political prisoner in NSW.

McCREERY, Archibald (1787-1815) - Lieutenant
Military officer: 73rd Regiment; served in NSW/VDL: 1810-1815, Ceylon: 1815. Died: 13 November 1815, at Colombo.

McDOUGALL, Andrew (d.1824)
Sailor, free settler in NSW.

McGARVIE, John (1795-1853) - Reverend
Scottish Presbyterian clergyman. Minister of the Ebenezer Church on the Hawkesbury River, NSW. Died unmarried on 12 April 1853. Buried in the Gore Hill Cemetery, Sydney.
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

MACLAINE, John (c.1792-1818)
Lachlan Macquarie's cousin (second eldest son of Murdoch Maclaine, 18th laird of Lochbuy) and nephew of Elizabeth Macquarie. Her sister, Jane Campbell, was married to Murdoch Maclaine.

McNAUGHTON, Archibald - Lieutenant
Military officer [73rd Regiment]; served in NSW/VDL: 1810-1814, Ceylon: 1814, courtmartialled, 10-13 August 1814 in Colombo (for drunkeness while on duty) - dismissed from the regiment. Sentence confirmed 8 March 1815.

MACQUARIE, Hector (c.1794-1845)
Lachlan Macquarie's nephew.
[see: Profiles]

MACQUARIE, Peter
The only Macquarie (except for the Governor and Lieutenant Hector Macquarie) found in NSW in 1821 is Peter Macquarie, who had four children baptised at St. Philip's between November 15th 1818 and January 16th 1825.

MANNERS SUTTON, Charles(1780-1845) - 1st Viscount Canterbury
Judge-Advocate-General and politician in British parliament.

McMANUS, Joseph
Overseer of Woodcutters at Port Macquarie, NSW.

MANESTY, Samuel (1758-1812)
British Resident at Basra.
Assisted Macquarie in April 1807 for his riverboat journey from Basra to Bagdad. A controversial figure in Persian Gulf politics in the period 1784-1810.

MARSDEN, Samuel (1765-1838) - Reverend
Chaplain, missionary, magistrate and agriculturalist. One of Macquarie's major critics and opponents.
[NSW]
[see:The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography 1730-1860. (ed.) Donald M. Lewis. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995 Vol.2 pp.72-743; Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

MAXWELL, James (c1757-1829), of Aros
The Duke of Argyll's chamberlain in Mull.
[Scotland]
[see: Currie, J. Mull: the island and its people. Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2000 pp.189-198, 433 and 459].

MAXWELL, Janet [nee McNeill] (c1762-1828).
Wife of James Maxwell; six (6) children: Agnes (c1785-1879), Robert (c1788-1821), John Argyll (1790-1855), Neil, and Mary & James (twins).

MEADE, Anne-Louise (or Louisa) [nee DALLING (c1785-1853)
Wife of General Robert Meade (1772-1852) whom she had married on 20 June 1808. According to Elizabeth Macquarie's 1809 she was personally acquainted with Lachlan Macquarie prior to her marriage and relocation to Madeira in 1808. Later, she accompanied her husband [with their young family] to Cape Town.[see below].

MEADE, Robert (1772-1852) - General
Soldier.
Commanding officer of the British and Portuguese garrison stationed on the island of Madeira during the visit by the Macquaries in June 1809. Remained in command until 1812. Between 1813-1816 he served as Lt. Governor and (later) Commandant of the Cape Town, South Africa.

MEEHAN, James (1774-1826)
Irish political prisoner, surveyor, explorer and settler in NSW.
[NSW]
[see: Profiles]

MENEZES, Francisco da CUNHA e (1747-1812)
Governor of Goa [3 November 1786- 22 May 1794], also Captain-General of India.
[see: Profiles]

MILEHAM, James ((c1763-1824) - Dr.
Surgeon, justice of the peace, and magistrate in NSW.
Arrived in NSW on the Ganges in 1797. Landowner in the Windsor district.
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol.2; also available online].

MICHIE, John Donald (d.1801) - Captain
Soldier [HEIC - Bengal Presidency]. Related to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay.

Served in Hyderabad in October 1798, assisting in the disarming of the Nizam's troops commanded by the Frenchmen under M. Raymond, and later took part in the capture of Seringapatam in April/May 1799. Lachlan Macquarie travelled with him in Bengal in July/August 1799; later Michie served with the Bengal Volunteers in the military campaign against the French in Egypt in 1801. He sailed in the transport ship Eliza. Mentioned in Macquarie's 1799 and 1801 journals, including the circumstances of his death.

Died: 8th December 1801, killed by a fall from his horse in Egypt. Unmarried.

MINCHIN, William (c1774-1821)
Military officer (NSW Corps) and farmer.
Prominent in the overthrow of Governor Bligh in January 1808 - but escaped censure and prosecution. Departed for Britain with 102nd Regiment in 1810 and served in Canada in 1812-1816; retired and sold his commission in August 1817; returned to NSW with family in September 1818. Appointed Principal Superintendent of Police, and Treasurer of the Police Fund in the place of D'Arcy Wentworth (1762-1827) in April 1820. He became a director of the Bank of New South Wales, a member of the Bible Society, and was appointed a member of the Male Orphan, Female Orphan and Native Institutions. [NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

MOLLE, George James (1773-1823) - Lieutenant-Colonel
Military officer and Lieutenant-Governor of NSW (1814-1817). In command of the 46th Regiment of Foot in Australia (1814-1817) and India (1817-1823). Served with Macquarie in India and Egypt.
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

MOORE, John (c.1796-1877)
Servant to the Macquaries.
[see: Profiles]

MOORE, Nancy (c.1798-1871)
Servant to the Macquaries.
[see: Profiles]

MOORE, Thomas (1762-1840)
Sailor, boatbuilder, farmer, magistrate and philanthropist.

MOORE, WILLIAM HENRY (c1788-1854)
Solicitor.
In February 1816 he joined Reverend Benjamin Vale (1787-1863) in seizing the American schooner Traveller as a legal 'prize' under the Navigation Acts. Moore was suspended by Macquarie for 'insolence and insubordination' and denied any vice-regal support or assistance. Macquarie regarded him as a prime mover in the drafting of a petition to the House of Commons criticising his administration (presented in the House of Commons on 10 March 1817). Not only was Moore accused of collecting signatures for the document, but also of forging them. In November 1819, after intense correspondence with the Colonial Office, Moore apologized for his actions, and was then reinstated and given his indulgences and arrears of pay.
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol.2; also available online].

MOOWATTIN, Daniel (c.1791-1816)
Aboriginal guide.
[see: Profiles]

MORLEY, Dorothea (nee Jarvis) (1768-1850)
Daughter of Thomas Jarvis (c.1722-1785), the late Chief Justice of Antigua, and Rachel (nee Thibou) (d.1794); married James Morley at St James's Church, Westminster on 9 March 1789. Dorothea was an elder sister of Jane Jarvis (1772-1796), Lachlan Macquarie's first wife.

MORLEY, James (1742-1798)
Senior Bombay merchant, husband of Dorothea Jarvis (1768-1850), and brother-in-law of Lachlan Macquarie.

MURPHY, Martin (17**-1819) - Lieutenant
Military officer: 73rd Regiment; served in NSW/VDL: 1811-1814, Ceylon: 1814-1819. Died: 7 June 1819, at Kornegalle (Sri Lanka).

MURRAY, John - Captain
Military officer: 73rd Regiment; served in NSW/VDL: 1810-1814, Ceylon: 1814-1817.

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