Peter McIntyre Blairmore Peter McIntyre was born in Perthshire, Scotland in 1783, the son of Donald and Mary McIntyre. In 1824 he was appointed agent for Thomas Potter Macqueen who had received a 10,000 acre grant of land in New South Wales. McIntyre organised immigrants, livestock and supplies and sailed on the Nimrod and Hugh Crawford arriving in Sydney in 1825. Peter McIntyre also secured a 4000 acre grant from Governor Darling for himself which was called Blairmore and another 4000 acres for his brother John McIntyre which was selected on the Allyn River and named Torryburn. Peter McIntyre guided Allan Cunningham over the Liverpool Ranges in 1827 and the McIntyre River is named in his honour. He and his brother Donald McIntyre had squatting runs on the Liverpool Plains - Byron Plains, Falconer, Kayuga, Waterloo and Guyra. He was replaced as Macqueen's agent by Hamilton Collings Sempill in 1830. Peter McIntyre died at Pitnacree near Maitland on 13 January 1842.