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John Bull: Sunday 18 July 1824

London newspaper, first published on 17 December 1820; discontinued on 16 July 1892. [Nos. 1-3739]. Lachlan Macquarie's death notice and the description of his funeral procession were published in two separate sections on the same page of John Bull Vol. IV No. 29, Sunday 18 July 1824:

"DIED:
On Thursday the 1st. instant, in Duke-street, St. James's, Major-General Lachlan Macquarie in the 63rd year of his age. His conduct from earliest youth, was marked by a most amiable disposition, a high sense of honor, and animated zeal for his profession. He entered the Army at the age of fifteen, and served his King and Country for forty-seven years in all parts of the world, with great credit. His many excellent qualities endeared him to an extensive circle of friends in all classes of society; and it may be truly said that, no man ever possessed in a higher degree, the respect and the esteem of his superiors, inferiors, and equals."

"THE LATE MAJOR-GENERAL LACHLAN MACQUARIE
On Sunday last, between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, the remains of this lamented Officer were removed from Duke-street, St. James's, attended by a most respectable assemblage of nobility and gentry. Among whom were the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Breadalbane, Mr. Justice Park, Sir Alured Clarke, Sir Byam Martin, Sir Henry Torrens, General Hart, General Forbes, Sir Fitzroy Maclean, General Campbell, Sir Edmund Antrobus, sir James Mackintosh, Hon. Colonel Cochrane, Mr. Page, Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. Beale, Mr. Booth, Mr. Bruce, Mr. Shank, Mr. M. Forbes, Colonel Lewis, Colonel D. Forbes, Major Carnac, and many more of the deceased's friends, followed by about forty carriages; among which, besides those of the partiers present, were those of the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Harrington, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Bathurst, J. Wilmot Esq. M.P. the Hon. Basil Cochrane, &c. &c. The whole proceeded through 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 upon 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."

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