About the Author

Malcolm Henry Ellis was born near Dirranbandi in southwest Queensland in 1890. He spent most of his working life as a journalist, but was also a prolific author, passionate about Australia's history, whose works include biographies of Francis Greenway and John Macarthur..He began writing his biography of Lachlan Macquarie in 1926 and he worked on it, mostly in his spare time, for almost twenty years. It was 1947 before it was published, but since then it has been in print for more than three decades. MH Ellis died in 1969.