MRS MACQUARIE – FINAL DAYS, FAITHFUL FRIENDS Elizabeth and Lachlan Macquarie returned to Scotland from New South Wales with their young son in 1822 . Unfortunately, Macquarie’s estate of Jarvisfield on the Isle of Mull was financially unviable and it’s residence Gruline House barely habitable. In retrospect
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JOHN BIGGE; REGIME CHANGER Commissioner John Thomas Bigge (1780-1843) arrived in New South Wales in September 1819. He had been appointed to conduct a wide ranging inquiry into governor Lachlan Macquarie’s administration. Bigge was highly critical of the Governor’s championship of ex-convicts, and his ‘wastefully expensive’ building
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