TAYLOR, James (c.1785-1829) - Major
Army officer: 48th Regiment of Foot, and painter.
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TAYLOR, James (17**-1817) - Lieutenant
Military officer: 73rd Regiment; served in NSW/VDL: 1810-1814, Ceylon: 1814-1817. Died: 29 December 1817, near Badulla (Sri Lanka).

TEMPLE, William (1779-1839)
Convict artisan, responsible for the construction of two carved armchairs for the Macquaries in 1820-1821.
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THOMPSON, Andrew (c.1773-1810)
Emancipist, constable, landholder and businessman.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

THROSBY, Charles (1777-1828)
Surgeon, settler and explorer. Also spelt as 'Throsbey' by Macquarie.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

TORRENS, Sir Henry (1779-1828) - Major
Army officer: 86th Regiment of Foot.
Served with Macquarie in Egypt and India. First arrived in Egypt with a contingent of the 86th. in May 1802 and accompanied the Indian army back to Bombay, however severe ill-health forced him to take passage back to Britain.
Torrens stopped at St Helena, where Macquarie met him again in March 1803 [see: Journal: 24-25 March 1803].
Torrens had recently married Sarah (nee Patton) (c.1781-1863) daughter of the governor, Colonel Robert Patton of Kirkcaldy, Fife. They had four sons and two daughters. The naming of two of these sons: Arthur Wellesley Torrens and Henry Whitelocke Torrens reflected the friendship and patronage enjoyed by Torrens with his military contemporaries: Sir Arthur Wellesley (the Duke of Wellington) and Major-General John Whitelocke (1757-1833). Macquarie served with the latter's younger brother, Bulstrode Whitelock, in India and Ceylon in the 77th Regiment between 1788-1797.
Torrens rejoined his regiment in India in 1804 and commanded in the field during the Second Anglo-Maratha War. After promotion to Lieutenant-Colonel (Brevet) he returned to Britain in 1805 and served with Whitelocke in the disastrous British expedition to seize Buenos Aires and the Rio de la Plata in 1806-1807, and with Wellesley in Portugal in 1808-1809. A highly successful military career in Britain followed.
Died: 23 August 1828 at Danesbury, Hertfordshire.
[see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography].

TOWNSON, Captain John (1760-1835)
Military officer: NSW Corps, and settler.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

TOWNSON, Dr. Robert (1763-1827)
Scholar, scientist and settler.
[NSW]
[see: Australian Dictionary of Biography; also available online].

TROUBRIDGE, Sir Thomas (c.1758-1807) - Rear Admiral
[sometimes spelt Trowbridge]
Created baronet on 23 November 1799.
Commissioned: Lieutenant 1 January 1781; Commander 11 October 1782; Captain 1 January 1783; Commissioner of the Admiralty 18 February 1801 - 15 May 1804; Rear Admiral of the Blue 23 April 1804; Rear Admiral of the White 9 November 1805. Served with distinction in the Mediterranean campaign against the French in 1798. A close personal friend of Admiral Nelson. Commanded the convoy of eleven East Indiamen destined for Bombay and Madras in 1805. Lachlan Macquarie sailed on board the City of London in this convoy. Troubridge arrived at Madras on 22 August 1805.
Died: drowned February 1807 when the Blenheim was sunk during a cyclone east of Madagascar near the island of Rodriguez.

TUCKER, [Jnr.] John
Macquarie refers to John Tucker Jnr, born in Sydney on 8 May 1795. His father was storekeeper at Newcastle. The farm mentioned by Macquarie in his 1818 journal entry was Albion farm, at Woodville, on the Paterson River.

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