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About Thomas Brisbane
Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet was a British Army officer, colonial administrator and astronomer. He served in many important wars of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, including front-line action during the Peninsular War. Upon the recommendation of the Duke of Wellington, with whom Brisbane had served, he was appointed as Governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825.
Everything about Thomas Brisbane →- Occupation
- astronomer, military personnel, politician
- Position held
- Governor of New South Wales, President of the British Science Association, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Citizenship
- Australia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- July 23, 1773, July 23, 1733
- Died
- January 27, 1860