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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At the end of PART ONE of this story, we left Miss Elizabeth Campbell fretting over her fiance Lachlan Macquarie’s lack of eagerness to return from army duties in India. Clearly something had to be done. Fortuitously, Henrietta Meredith had a friend and family connection by the
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On January 1st 1810, Lachlan Macquarie was sworn in as Governor of New South Wales, replacing the deposed William Bligh. Macquarie had arrived in Port Jackson aboard The Dromedary several days earlier, accompanied by his wife Elizabeth. Her love and unswerving loyalty would sustain the Governor throughout
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