Talk:Lachlan Macquarie

message: I was under the impression that nobody was certain of his date of birth. Does anybody have a source to confirm January 31? - 3mta3 08:18, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Now sourced. SauliH 06:13, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: DoB

message: Bligh was overthrown in January 1808; Macquarie arrived in Sydney in December 1809. This article currently says in paragraph two that he was appointed in 1808, while Rum Rebellion says 1809, but both articles also say he was governor from 1810.
There was ample time for the news of the coup to come back to Britain in 1808, so he could have been appointed then, and could indeed have set out and arrived still in 1808. Did they delay for over a year? After arriving in 1809, did he not take up office till some kind of inauguration in 1810? I can understand his being appointed in Britain in late 1809, setting out, and arriving in early 1810, but the current collection of dates appears inconsistent. --Anon.
: Dillon and Butler, Macquarie, From Colony to Country,  page 68 gives the following: 
::Macquarie coveted the job but did not expect to gain it. However, the post was offered to him verbally by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Castlereagh, on 27 April 1809. Whiteguru (talk) 07:09, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  When appointed governor? 

message: These "extremely large number of place names" (of which only 3 are listed) seem to be places named by Macquarie after places in Mull.  How do these fit into a list of places named "in his honour"?  Surely they are in honour of Mull, not of Macquarie.  Is Ayers Rock named in honour of Sir Henry Ayers, or of the person who named it, William Gosse?  Ayers, of course.  JackofOz 14:40, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mull namings

message: Is it fair to say that Macquarie popularised the name Lachlan? It's a fairly common boy's name here in Australia but I'm not sure how popular it is in Scotland. If this is the case, maybe it could be added to the article. Peter1968 08:53, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popularisation of the name "Lachlan" 

message: Jane Jarvis was 3 when she died? Someone needs to fix that.
121.44.218.238 (talk) 04:04, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think they are the years between which they were married. They married in 1793 but she died of tuberculosis in 1796. Recurring dreams (talk) 04:10, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jane Jarvis 

message: How do you pronounce "Macquarie"? Maikel (talk) 16:52, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class.  Referencing and appropriate inline citation guidelines not met.   With appropriate citations and references, this article would easily qualify as B class if not higher.   --dashiellx (talk) 10:51, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 

message: This section "Explorers soon noticed that the Governor liked things named after him: so Australia has the Macquarie River and Mount Macquarie, Lake Macquarie and Port Macquarie, Macquarie Harbour and Macquarie Island. Elizabeth Bay, Elizabeth Street and Mrs Macquarie's Chair (a carved chair on the eponymous point in Sydney Harbour) are named for his wife." is duplicated further down the article, and seems to be be a bit subjective ("Explorers soon noticed..."?). Any objections to removing that sentence? MurfleMan (talk) 23:28, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplicated information?

message: Governor and Mrs. Macquarie are sympathetically portrayed in the Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian. V. Joe (talk) 04:12, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Portrayal in ficton

message: I suggest that in the absence of any specific reference to the contrary, Macquarie Culvert was more likely named only after Elizabeth Macquarie, not Lachlan. None of the Macquarie Culvert references explicitly say who it was named after, only that it part of Mrs Macquarie's Road. Two of the refs  says she designed the bridge (not him). The one ref not on-line ("Our Convict Heritage") says: 
Mitch Ames (talk) 12:23, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, the stone engraving above her chair says the road (for which the culvert was built) was "So named ... an account of her having Originally Planned it" (emphasis added). Mitch Ames (talk) 13:31, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

text: I've removed the culvert from the list. Mitch Ames (talk) 02:45, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whose culvert? 

message: This quote is all over the net:
:In 1816 Governor Lachlan Macquarie made orders to soldiers:
:
:All Aborigines from Sydney onwards are to be made prisoners of war and if they resist they are to be shot and their bodies hung from trees in the most conspicuous places near where they fall, so as to strike terror into the hearts of the surviving natives.
It seems vary much at odds with the tone of the article, and there's nothing particular noted for 1816. So, anyone able to shed some light? Snori (talk) 04:09, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Answering my question... the list of events  gives an idea. Snori (talk) 04:17, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Orders to shoot?

message: there should be some info on him starting Bible Society of Australia 1.129.97.123 (talk) 00:36, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It can be if you have citations to support it. Add them here if you don't want to directly edit the article. Kerry (talk) 02:17, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bible Society of Australia 

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message: It's good to add sources, but what you've added is Macquarie's diary and another source that puts 'hostile natives' in quotes, which likely means Macquarie himself called them that. 'Murdering' and 'good relations' are also problematic, as it's editorializing and possibly also in Macquarie's words. Finally, we need to add the information about travelling long distances and giving breakfast and tobacco with consensus into the section rather than the lead, then gain consensus that it's important enough for the lead. Message left at IP's talk. —valereee (talk) 13:34, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes by IP