Argyll militia 1803–15; first appeared Greenock theatre as Don
Pedro in The Wonder, Feb. 1816; first seen in Edinb. at theatre
royal as Mr. Russell in The Jealous Wife 26 Dec. 1818, then as
Baillie Nicol Jarvie in Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott witnessing
the representation on 15 Feb. 1819, one of the most popular
characters on the stage; was also good in Old Dornton in the
Road to Ruin, and in Sir Peter Teazle; played Baillie Nicol
Jarvie at Drury Lane 3 July 1821, an engagement for 6 nights;
ceased to be a member of regular company of the T.R. Edinb. 21
April 1841 after 22 years’ service; played Baillie Nicol Jarvie
at Prince’s theatre, Glasgow 4 Feb. 1852 being the 1134th time
of his acting the part; played the Baillie the last time and his
final appearance 25 Jany. 1853; the most important of the actors
in the Waverley dramas. _d._ 17 Lutton place, Edinburgh 2 Nov.
1857. _bur._ in the Calton burying ground. _The British Stage_,
_v_ 224, 241, 249 (1821), _portrait_; _Dibdin’s Edinburgh Stage_
(1888) 285–92, 320, 379, 401–3, 416–7, 436, 450–1, _portrait_;
_The Scotsman 4 Nov. 1857 p._ 2; _The Era 8 Nov. 1857 p._ 10;
_Lockhart’s Life of sir W. Scott_ (1845) 389, 789.
NOTE.--He was the original representative in the following dramas
founded on Scott’s works, John Dumbie in The Heart of Midlothian 23
Feb. 1820; Edie Ochiltree in The Antiquary 20 Dec. 1820; Dugal Dalgetty
in The Legend of Montrose 13 March 1822; Caleb Balderston in The Bride
of Lammermoor 1 May 1822; Tony Foster in Kenilworth 1 July 1822; Richie
Moniplies in George Heriot 6 Feb. 1823; Sir Geoffrey Peveril in Peveril
of the Peak 12 April 1823; Friar Tuck in Ivanhoe 24 Nov. 1823; the
baron of Brawardine in Waverley 22 May 1824; Meg Dodds in St. Ronan’s
Well 5 June 1824; Peter Peebles in Redgauntlet 28 May 1825; and Hughie
Morrison in The Two Drovers 10 Nov. 1828.
MACKAY, CHARLES (son of George Mackay of the royal artillery).
_b._ Perth 27 March 1814; ed. at Woolwich 1822, in London 1825
and in Brussels 1828; sec. to William Cockerill, mechanician,
Seraing 1830–2; on staff of Morning Chronicle 1835 to July
1844; edited the Glasgow Argus, Sep. 1844 to July 1847; LL.D.
of Glasgow univ.; political and literary editor of Illustrated
London News 1848–52 and manager 1852 to Dec. 1859; lectured
on poetry and song in the United States and Canada, Oct. 1857
to May 1858; editor of The London review and weekly journal
which appeared 7 July 1860; correspondent for the Times in New
York, March 1862 to Dec. 1865; granted civil list pension of
£100, 19 June 1862; presented with testimonial of £770 at St.
James’s hall, London 27 Dec. 1877; author of A history of London
1838; The Thames and its tributaries 2 vols. 1840; Memoirs of
extraordinary popular delusions 3 vols. 1841, 4 ed. 1892; Songs
of Scotland 1857; The collected songs of C. Mackay 1859; The
Jacobite songs of Scotland 1861; Forty years recollections of
life, literature and public affairs 2 vols. 1877; Luck or what
came of it, a tale 3 vols. 1881; The poetry and humour of the
Scottish language 1882; Through the long day, or memorial of
a literary life 2 vols. 1887. _d._ 47 Longridge road, Earl’s
Court, London 24 Dec. 1889. _Biograph_, _Aug. 1879 pp._ 145–8;
_The Critic_, _xvii_ 752 (1858), _portrait_; _T. Powell’s
Pictures of living authors of Britain_ (1851) 146–49; _I.L.N.
xviii_ 180, 181 (1851) _portrait_, _xx_ 68 (1852) _portrait_;
_Pictorial World 2 Jany. 1890 pp._ 21, 23, _portrait_;
_Reynolds’s Miscellany_, _xxvii_ 105 (1862), _portrait_.
M’KAY, DAVID. _b._ near Brechin 1810; a shoemaker at Lochee near
Dundee 1828 to death; wrote verses for Chambers’ Journal and the
local papers; greatly promoted the welfare of Lochee; chairman
of Burns’ centenary festival Lochee 1859; Lochee correspondent
of Dundee Advertiser 1864. _d._ Lochee 19 Dec. 1868. _Norrie’s
Dundee celebrities_ (1873) 331–3.
MACKAY, GEORGE. L.F.P.S. Glasgow 1833; M.D. Glasgow 1835;
L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1841; M.R.C.P. Lond. 1860; senior assist.
surgeon to H.M. ships in attack on Bogue forts, Canton river
1841; senior medical officer of Agamemnon before Sebastopol
1854; staff surgeon and medical storekeeper, royal hospital,
Plymouth, June 1855; deputy inspector general Hong Kong 29 Dec.
1860 and at Haslar hospital 1865; hon. surgeon to the queen to
death; retired inspector general of hospitals 26 Oct. 1870;
wrote Notes on the cholera at Varna, in Edinb. Med. Journal
1857, and on Medical arrangement in naval actions, in Medical
Times 1854. _d._ Sutherland house, Wellington 26 April 1879.
_The Lancet 3 May 1879 p._ 640.
MACKAY, GEORGE R. ABERIGH (son of James Aberigh Mackay, D.D.,
senior British chaplain, Paris). _b._ 1849; junior professor
government coll. Delhi; on staff of the Pioneer newspaper;
principal of Rájkumár college, Indore; sent newspaper
correspondence to Vanity Fair 1878, Ali Baba letters 1879, and
Baby in partibus 1880; a correspondent of the Bombay Gazette
under name of Political Orphan; author of Notes on Western
Turkistan, Calcutta 1875; The chiefs of Central India 1879, vol.
1 only; The prince’s guide book. The Times of India, handbook
of Hindustan 1875; Twenty-one days in India, being the tour of
Sir Ali Baba 1880, 3 ed. 1881; Serious reflections and other
contributions 1881. _d._ Calcutta 13 Jany. 1881. _Vanity Fair_
(1881) 80, 90, 118; _S. W. O’Neil’s Preparation for death.
Funeral sermon_ (1881).
MACKAY, JAMES TOWNSEND. _b._ Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire 1775; trained
as a gardener; went to Ireland 1803; curator of botanical garden
of Trin. coll. Dublin 1806 to death; A.L.S. 2 Dec. 1806; LL.D.
Dublin 1850; discovered several species of plants new to the
British Isles; contributed much to Sir J. E. Smith’s English
Botany 1790–1814 and to Trans. Royal Irish academy; M.R.I.A.;
author of Flora Hibernica 1836. _d._ 1 Dawson grove, Beggar’s
bush road, Dublin 25 Feb. 1862.
MC KAY, JOHN. _b._ 19 Feb. 1823; served in the ranks 1841–54;
ensign and quartermaster school of musketry 25 Aug. 1854; lieut.
41 foot 1855–9; major 12 foot 1 Aug. 1867, lieut.-col. 1 May
1871, placed on h.p. 10 April 1878; D.A.A.G. school of musketry,
Hythe 1 April 1856 to 30 Sep. 1867; commanded the brigade depot
for counties of Suffolk and Cambridge at Bury St. Edmund’s,
April 1878; awarded distinguished service reward; retired on
pension with rank of M.G. 1 April 1882. _d._ 13 Gwendwr road,
West Kensington, London 14 Oct. 1887.
MACKAY, JOSEPH REILLY (son of rev. Joseph William Mackay
1819–91). _b._ 1849; an artist in black and white; wrote largely
in prose and verse; wrote Peggy 3 act drama produced at Royalty
theatre 14 Feb. 1881; wrote with H. Agoust, Macfarlane’s Will,
pantomime vaudeville in 3 acts produced Imperial theatre 26
Dec. 1881; The Novel Reader, an adaptation by Joseph Mackay
and Sydney Grundy of Meilhac and Halévy’s La Petite Marquise,
was privately performed at Globe theatre 28 Sep. 1882 the lord
chamberlain having refused to license the piece, but on the 25
April 1887 it was produced under title of May and December at
Criterion theatre. _d._ 16 Waterford road, Fulham near London 18
Dec. 1889.
M’KAY, JOSEPH WILLIAM. _b._ Shinrone, King’s county, Ireland 21
May 1819; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1840; D.D. of Victoria
univ. Coburg, Canada; minister at Belfast 1843–5, 1853–6, 1862–5
and from 1871 to death; minister at Dublin 1850–3, 1859–62 and
1868–71; at Cork 1856–9; senior assist. sec. of the conference
1855–70, secretary of the conference 1870–80, vice president
of the conference 1870, 1876 and 1886; representative of the
Irish conference in general conference America 1872, and at the
œcumenical conference London 1881; president Methodist coll.
Belfast 1880 to death; professor of systematic theology to
death. _d._ Belfast college 6 Feb. 1891. _bur._ City cemet. 9
Feb. _Daily Graphic 12 Feb. 1891 p._ 5, _portrait_; _Belfast
News-letter 7 Feb. 1891 p._ 5, _10 Feb. p._ 7.
MACKAY, MACKINTOSH (son of captain Alexander Mackay of
Duard Beg, Sutherlandshire). _b._ 1800; minister of Laggan,
Invernessshire 1825–32; LL.D. Glasgow; minister of Dunoon
1832–43; of Free church, Dunoon 1843–54; moderator of Free
church assembly 1849; minister of the Gaelic church at Melbourne
1854–6 and at Sydney 1856 etc.; minister of Free church at
Tarbett, Harris, Scotland to death; edited Dictionarium
Scoto-Celticum 1828; Songs and poems in Gaelic by R. Mackay.
Inverness 1829; author of Memoirs of J. Ewing, provost of
Glasgow 1866. _d._ 1873.
MACKAY, ROBERT WILLIAM (only son of John Mackay of St. James’,
London). _b._ Piccadilly, London 27 May 1803; ed. at Winchester
and Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1824, M.A. 1828; barrister L.I.
25 Nov. 1828; an original member of Athenæum club, London 1824;
author of The progress of the intellect as exemplified in the
religious development of the Greeks and Hebrews 2 vols. 1850;
A sketch of the rise and progress of Christianity 1854; The
Tübingen school and its antecedents, a review of modern theology
1863; translated The Sophistes of Plato 1868, and Plato’s Meno
1869. _d._ 41 Hamilton terrace, London 23 Feb. 1882. _Athenæum 4
March 1882 p._ 283.
M’KEAN, R. _b._ 1849; manager Royal Albert music hall, Glasgow
1865 and of Alexandra, Victoria, Folly and Britannia music
halls; partner with H. T. Rossborough in the Britannia music
hall at time of death. _d._ 81 London st. Glasgow 8 May 1885.
_bur._ Southern Necropolis 12 May.
MACKELLAR, JOHN (eld. son of general Patrick Mackellar, chief
engineer in north America and Minorca, _d._ 1779). _b._ Minorca
about 1768; entered navy 6 Jany. 1781; captain 27 April 1799;
agent for prisoners of war and transports and governor of naval
hospital at Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 1804 to about May 1810;
rear admiral 27 May 1825, admiral 26 July 1847; awarded a
service pension 1 July 1851. _d._ Cheltenham 14 April 1854.
_Georgian Era_, _ii_ 241 (1833).
MACKELLAR, MARY (dau. of Allan Cameron of Fort William, baker).
_b._ 1 Oct. 1834; (_m._ John Mackellar, captain of a coasting
vessel, obtained a judicial separation about 1877); visited
many places in Europe with her husband, settled in Edinburgh
1876; bard to the Gaelic society of Inverness; author of Poems
and songs, Gaelic and English 1880; The tourist’s handbook of
Gaelic and English phrases for the Highlands 1880, 3 ed. 1882; A
guide to Lochaber; translated into Gaelic, Queen Victoria’s More
leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands 1886. _d._
Edinburgh 7 Sep. 1890. _bur._ Kilmallie, Argyllshire.
MACKELVIE, WILLIAM. _b._ Edinburgh 7 March 1800; apprentice to
a draper at Leith; studied at univ. of Edinb. from Nov. 1809,
then at Glasgow; licensed to preach by presbytery of Stirling
and Falkirk 7 March 1827; minister of Balgedie, Kinross-shire 16
April 1829 to death; one of earliest promoters of union between
secession and relief churches which took place 13 May 1847;
moderator of synod of 1856; D.D. Hamilton, Ohio; originated the
Dick club 1835; author of Lochleven and other poems by Michael
Bruce, with a life of the author 1837; Annals and statistics
of the united presbyterian church. The biographical notices
by W. Mackelvie 1873. _d._ Balgedie 10 Dec. 1863. _Sermons by
Wm. Mackelvie_ (1875), _memoir by J. Macfarlane pp._ 7–64,
_portrait_.
MAC KENNA, STEPHEN JOSEPH. _b._ Dublin 1837; ed. Downside;
ensign 28 foot 30 March 1860, sold out 8 Aug. 1865; sub-editor
of Evening News, London to death; author of Off parade 3 vols.
1872; King’s beeches, stories of old chums 1873; Plucky fellows,
a book for boys 1873, 2 ed. 1874; At school with an old dragoon
1874; A child of fortune 3 vols. 1875; Handfast to strangers
3 vols. 1876; Brave men in action 1878, 2 ed. 1889; The
tradesman’s club 1880. _d._ 8 Shalcombe st. Chelsea 5 Jany. 1883.
M’KENNA, THEOBALD. Called to Irish bar 1821; Q.C. 2 Nov. 1842;
assistant under secretary for Ireland to death. _d._ 1856.
MACKENZIE, SIR ALEXANDER, 2 Baronet (eld. son of Roderick
Mackenzie). _b._ 1771; ed. in Edinburgh and at military academy,
Angers; ensign 1 foot 30 June 1787; lieut. 42 foot 1791;
major 78 foot 24 July 1793; raised 2nd battalion of 78 foot,
lieut.-col. 10 Feb. 1794; lieut.-col. 36 foot 22 May 1797 to
23 May 1816; second in command at capture of Cape of Good Hope
1795; commanded a division in expedition against Naples 1808
and afterwards the troops in the two Calabrias; general 19 July
1821; G.C. of order of St. Januarius; G.C.H. 1817; succeeded his
uncle as 2 Baronet 21 Aug. 1820. _d._ Bath 17 Oct. 1853.
MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER. Second viola player in orchestra of
theatre royal, Edinburgh 1833, first violin player 1835, leader
of the orchestra Feb. 1846 to death, this orchestra was for its
size the first in the kingdom, it made successful annual visits
to London. _d._ 7 Oct. 1857.
MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER (3 son of Alexander Mackenzie, builder,
_d._ 1836). _b._ Logierait near Dunkeld, Perthshire 28 Jany.
1822; learnt trade of a stonemason; a journeyman builder at
Kingston, Ontario 1842; a builder and contractor at Sarnia
1848; editor of the ‘Lambton Shield’ at Sarnia 1852; member for
Lambton in the provincial parliament 1861–7 and in the dominion
house of commons 1867–82; member for East York, July 1882 to
death; formed a ministry 7 Nov. 1873, becoming himself minister
of public works, resigned Sep. 1873; resigned leadership of the
liberals 1880; presented with freedom of Irvine, Dundee and
Perth 1875 and of Inverness 1881. _d._ St. Alban’s st. Toronto
17 April 1892. _bur._ Lake View cemetery near Sarnia. _Speeches
of A. Mackenzie. Toronto_ (1876), _memoir pp._ 1–13, _portrait_.
M’KENZIE, ALEXANDER. _b._ Auldcarn, Nairnshire 18 June 1829;
captain hon. artillery company of London 8 March 1879, retired
into the veteran company with hon. rank of major 8 March 1884;
a skilled expert in all matters of forestry; superintendent of
Epping Forest under corporation of London 1880 to death. _d._
The Warren, Loughton, Essex 27 March 1893. _City Press 29 March
1893 p._ 4, _1 April p._ 5.
MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER MACKAY. _b._ 1827; entered Bengal army;
raised 8th regiment of irregular cavalry and was second in
command 10 Oct. 1854 to 1859 when it mutinied; commandant of
Meywar Bheel corps 18 March 1863 to 1874; M.G. 25 Nov. 1874.
_d._ 41 Queensborough terrace, London 27 May 1879.
MACKENZIE, CHARLES (3 son of John Mackenzie of Torridon, N.B.)
_b._ 28 Feb. 1807; ed. Merchant Taylors’ sch. and Pemb. coll.
Oxf., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; head master of St. Olave’s gram.
sch. Southwark 1832–55; V. of St. Helen, Bishopgate 1836–46;
R. of St. Benet, Gracechurch st. with St. Leonard, Eastcheap
1846–66, and of same united with All Hallows’, Lombard st. and
St. Dionis Backchurch 1866 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s 1852
to death; principal of Westbourne coll. London 1855–64; founder
of metropolitan evening classes for young men 1848; founder
of city of London coll. for young men 1862; author of Crosby
place, a lecture 1842; History of the church of Christ 1842;
Tabular views of the contents of the pentateuch 1850; The young
christian’s glossary 5 ed. 1852; Westbourne college, Bayswater
road, an inaugural address 1855. _d._ 35 Woburn sq. London 16
April 1888.
MACKENZIE, CHARLES FREDERICK (youngest son of Colin Mackenzie
of Portmore, Peeblesshire). _b._ Harcus cottage, Portmore 10
April 1825; ed. at Edinb. acad. and Grange sch. near Sunderland;
pensioner St. John’s coll. Camb. Oct. 1844, migrated to Caius
coll. Easter 1845, 2nd wrangler 1848, B.A. 1848, M.A. 1851;
fellow of Caius coll., tutor; one of secretaries to Cambridge
board of education 1848–55; C. of Haslingfield, Cambs. Oct.
1851 to 1854; archdeacon of Pieter-Maritzburg, Natal 1854–59;
chaplain to the troops in Natal 1858–9; bishop of the mission
to the tribes dwelling in neighbourhood of Lake Nyassa and
river Shire, Africa 1860 to death; consecrated in cathedral
at Cape Town 1 Jany. 1861; author of Holiday’s at Linmere, or
our Lord’s miracles explained 1855. _d._ Malo island, Central
Africa 31 Jany. 1862. _Harvey Goodwin’s Memoir of bishop
Mackenzie_ (1865), _portrait_; _G. H. Smyttan’s Tribute to
bishop Mackenzie_ (1862); _Frances Awdry’s An elder sister and
her brother the missionary bishop_ (1878); _In Zululand, the
story of the Mackenzie memorial mission_ (1872); _Thomas Pelham
Dale’s A life’s motto_ (1869) 308–41; _C. M. Yonge’s Pioneers
and founders_ (1871) 285–316.
MACKENZIE, CHARLES KENNETH. _b._ Scotland 1788; received degree
of doctor in both law and medicine; aide de camp to duke of
Wellington; accompanied British commission to Mexico 1823, being
appointed consul for Vera Cruz 10 Oct. 1823; consul general to
Hayti 27 Dec. 1825 to 10 Oct. 1828; comr. of arbitration to
mixed commission at Havana 20 Feb. 1830 to Nov. 1834; returned
to England and contributed to reviews and to the Encyclopædia
Britannica; leader-writer on a London conservative journal; lost
his life by burning of a hotel in New York 6 July 1862. _F.O.
List_, _July 1864 p._ 166.
MACKENZIE, COLIN (son of Kenneth Francis Mackenzie, attorney
general in island of Grenada, _d._ 1831). _b._ London 25 March
1806; cadet H.E.I.C. 1825; ensign 48 Madras N.I. 8 Jany. 1826;
cantonment magistrate at Palaveram 1835–6; present at the
murder of sir William Macnaughton; sent on an embassy from
Akbar to Jellalabad 1842; raised 4th regt. frontier brigade
1848–9; employed in annexing Berar 1853; in mutiny of 1856–7;
lieut.-col. staff corps 18 Feb. 1861; superintendent of army
clothing for all India 4 March 1862 to 24 Nov. 1864; L.G. 1 Oct.
1877; C.B. 13 March 1868. _d._ The Hitchel, St. Margaret’s road,
Edinburgh 23 Oct. 1881. _H. Mackenzie’s Storms and sunshine,
life of C. Mackenzie_ 2 _vols._ (1884), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxxix_ 464 (1881), _portrait_.
MACKENZIE, COLIN A. _b._ 1779; sent by government to Morlaix to
negotiate an exchange of prisoners with Napoleon 1810; appointed
by government to receive and entertain prince Lucien Bonaparte
taken prisoner of war 1810; presided over commission for
investigation of British claims on French government to 1828;
sent to Portugal to adjust some political differences 1828; one
of founders of Travellers’ Club, Pall Mall, London 1815; left
part of his property to found a museum at Dingwall. _d._ 5 Hyde
park place, London 24 Nov. 1851. _G.M. xxxvii_ 96–7 (1852).
MACKENZIE, DONALD. _b._ in north of Scotland 15 June 1783; in
employment of North-west fur co. Montreal 1801–9; one of 5
promoters of The Pacific fur co. 23 June 1810; established a fur
trading post at Asteria on Columbia river, Capt. Black of H.M.S.
Racoon took possession 30 Nov. 1813 and renamed it Fort George,
restored to U.S. America 1814; chief factor of Hudson bay co.
March 1821 and governor 1825, retired 1833. _d._ Mayville,
Chautauque county, New York 20 Jany. 1851. _W. Anderson’s
Scottish nation_, _iii_ 724–5 (1863); _Appleton’s American
biography_, _iv_ 133 (1888).
MACKENZIE, DONALD. Wholesale chemist at Islington, London; an
elder of Edward Irving’s ch. in Regent sq. 1824, followed him
on his expulsion 1832; angel of Catholic Apostolic church,
Islington to 1835; the 12th apostle of the C.A. church, Albury,
Surrey 14 July 1835 and had Norway and Sweden assigned to him as
his sphere; disapproved of the apostles taking precedence over
the prophets and retired from the Apostolic college in 1840 and
never afterwards took any part in the work. _d._ 1855. _Miller’s
Irvingism i_ 90, _ii_ 418 (1878).
MACKENZIE, DONALD (only son of Donald Mackenzie, captain 21
foot). _b._ 1818; L.R.C.P. 1839, F.R.C.S. 1839, in practice at
Lasswade near Edinb.; called to Scotch bar 1842; advocate depute
1854–58 and 1859–61; sheriff of Fife 26 Jany. 1861 to 14 March
1870; judge of court of session with title of Lord Mackenzie 14
March 1870 to death. _d._ Maulside, Dulwich wood park, Surrey,
residence of major general Stuart 19 May 1875. _Journal of
jurisprudence_, _xix_ 316 (1875); _Law mag. and law review_,
_iv_ 815–818 (1875).
MC KENZIE, DOUGLAS. Ed. St. Alban’s school and Peterhouse,
Camb., scholar, 33 wrangler 1864; B.A. 1864, M.A. 1867, D.D.
1886; 2 master Crewkerne gram. sch. and C. of Chaffcombe,
Somerset 1864–6; C. of Rounds, Northants. 1866–9; V.P. of Trin.
coll. Peterborough 1869–71; V. of St. Mary, Wolverton 1871–2;
vice principal of St. Andrew’s coll. Grahamstown, South Africa
1873; principal of St. Andrew’s diocesan coll. Bloemfontain
1874–9; canon of Bloemfontain 1877–80; archdeacon of Harrismith
1879–80; bishop of Zululand 1880 to death, consecrated at Cape
Town 30 Nov. 1880. _d._ of fever in Zululand before 15 Jany.
1890. _W. M. Cameron’s D. Mc Kenzie_ (1890); _Times 16 Jany.
1890 p._ 5, _17 Jany. p._ 9.
MACKENZIE, EDWARD (2 son of Alexander Mackenzie, canal engineer
1765–1836). _b._ 1 May 1811; civil engineer and contractor;
purchased manor and estate of Fawley court near Henley, Bucks.
from Wm. Peere Williams Freeman 1853; sheriff of Bucks. 1862.
_d._ Fawley Court, Bucks. 27 Sep. 1880, personalty sworn under
£1,000,000 Oct. 1880. _Times 30 Sep. 1880 p._ 9 _col._ 6.
MACKENZIE, FRANCIS JAMES NAPIER. _b._ 19 Oct. 1837; ensign 52
Bengal N.I. 25 May 1855; major Bengal staff corps 17 March
1875, lieut.-col. 17 March 1881; retired with hon. rank of
colonel 13 July 1882; buried for seven hours among ruins at
the Casamicciola earthquakes, Ischia 28 July 1883; wrote The
destruction of La Piccola Sentinella at Ischia 28 July in The
Times 10 Aug. 1883 pp. 2–3. _d._ Rome 18 Nov. 1884.
MACKENZIE, FRANCIS LEWIS (son of Joshua Henry Mackenzie, lord
Mackenzie _d._ 1850). _b._ Belmont near Edinb. 16 Sep. 1833;
ed. at Edinb. academy 1843, at Glasgow coll. 1849, and at Trin.
coll. Camb. 1852 to death; very talented and much interested in
Sunday schools etc. _d._ Trinity coll. Cambridge 15 March 1855.
_bur._ Madingley near Camb. 21 March. _C. P. Miles’s Memoir of
F. L. Mackenzie_ (1857), 2 _portraits_.
MACKENZIE, FREDERICK (son of Thomas Mackenzie, linen draper).
_b._ 1787; made architectural and topographical drawings for
John Britton and others; exhibited 11 drawings at R.A. 1804–28;
associate of Society of painters in water-colours 4 Feb.
1813 to 1817, member 1823, treasurer 30 Nov. 1831 to death;
published Etchings of landscapes for the use of students 1812;
Architectural antiquities of St. Stephen’s chapel, Westminster
1844; Observations on the construction of the roof of King’s
college chapel, Cambridge 1846. _d._ 43 Stanhope st. Hampstead
road, London 25 April 1854. _bur._ Highgate cemet. _Roget’s
History of the old water-colour society_, _i_ 371, _ii_ 84, 455
(1891).
MACKENZIE, FREDERICK WILLIAM. _b._ New South Wales 1816 or
1817; ed. at Univ. college school and hospital, London; fellow
and member of council of univ. college; M.D. Lond. 1841;
M.R.C.P. 1855; physician to Queen Charlotte’s lying-in hospital;
consulting physician and accoucheur to Westbourne dispensary;
author of The pathology of phlegmasia dolens, Lettsonian
lectures 1862. _d._ 11 Chester place, Hyde park square, London 3
April 1865. _Proc. of Med. and Chir. Soc. v_ 159 (1867).
MACKENZIE, GEORGE. _b._ Sutherlandshire 1777; tenant of a large
farm; served in Perthshire militia till it was disbanded; began
to keep a register of atmospheric changes 1802; author of The
system of the weather of the British islands. Edinburgh 1818;
Manual of the weather for 1830, including a brief account of the
cycles of the winds and weather. Edinburgh 1829; Elements of the
cycles of the winds, weather and prices of corn. Perth 1843.
_d._ County Place, Perth 13 May 1856.