One of the Scots who made extraordinary contributions to Australia was Lachlan Macquarie. Grantley Kieza has published several biographies including Banjo, Monash and Bert Hinkler. Now in Macquarie, he reveals a more complex figure than one might have expected: severe but sentimental, strait-laced but wayward, ambitious but egalitarian. Born in 1761 into a proud but impoverished family in the Inner Hebrides, his fortunes began to improve on the death of his father when Lachlan was about 14.
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