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.
MACKENZIE, George Henry. b. Bellefield, Rossshire 24 March 1837; ensign 60 rifles 9 May 1856, lieut. 21 May 1858, sold out 16 April 1861; served in war in U.S. of America in northern army July 1863, and became a captain; chess player in Dublin 1860; settled in New York 1865; played in London chess tournament 1862, won 10 games, drew 2 and lost 2; won first prize in each of New York chess club annual tournaments 1865, 6, 7 and 8; won first prizes in second American chess congress Dec. 1871 and in third congress 1874; played in tournaments Paris 1878, Berlin 1881, Vienna 1882, London 1883 and Hamburg 1885; at Frankfort in 1887 won 15 out of 20 games, first prize and champion chess player of the world; found dead in his bed at an hotel, New York 14 April 1891. Westminster papers 1 Oct. 1878 p. 125, portrait; Fortnightly Review, Dec. 1886 p. 758; Times 16 April 1891 p. 6; Appleton’s American biography, iii 133 (1888), portrait.
MACKENZIE, Henry (youngest son of John Mackenzie, merchant, d. 1820). b. King’s Arms’ yard, Coleman st. City of London 16 May 1808; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1815 etc.; engaged in commerce; entered Pembroke coll. Oxf. 1830, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1838, D.D. 1869; C. of Wool and Lulworth, Dorset 1834; English chaplain at Rotterdam 1835–6; C. of St. Peter’s, Walworth 1836–7; master of Bancroft’s hospital, Mile End 1837–40; Inc. of St. James’s, Bermondsey 1840–4; V. of Great Yarmouth 1844–8; R. of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields, London 1848–55; R. of Tydd St. Mary near Wisbech 1855–66; preb. of Lincoln 1858–64; sub dean and canon residentiary of Lincoln 1864 to death; archdeacon of Nottingham 1866–70; R. of South Collingham near Newark 1866–71; bishop suffragan of Nottingham 22 Jany. 1870 to 1878, consecrated at St. Mary’s, Nottingham 2 Feb. 1870; select preacher at Oxford 1871; P.C. of Scofton near Worksop 1871–3; member of convocation 1857; author of The life of Offa, king of Mercia 1840; A short commentary on the gospels and acts 1847; Thoughts for hours of retirement 1864; Hymns and verses for Sundays and holydays 1871. d. The subdeanery, Lincoln 15 Oct. 1878. bur. at South Collingham. I.L.N. xxiv 401 (1854) portrait, lvi 157, 188, 253 (1870) portrait.
MACKENZIE, Holt (son of Henry Mackenzie, author of The man of feeling 1745–1831). b. 1787; entered H.E.I.C.S. as a writer July 1807; sec. to government in territorial department May 1817; returned to England 1831, retired on the annuity fund Oct. 1833; one of comrs. of board of control 28 July 1832 to 20 Dec. 1834; P.C. 11 July 1832; author of Note addressed to Mr. Pennington on the importation of foreign corn 1841. d. 28 Wimpole st. London 31 March 1876. I.L.N. lxviii 359, 575 (1876).
MACKENZIE, James. Entered Bengal army 1820; major 8 Bengal light cavalry 10 Aug. 1850, lieut.-col. 28 Nov. 1854 to 1858; lieut.-col. 5 European light cavalry 1858 to death; commandant 6 irregular cavalry 2 Sep. 1840 to 26 Feb. 1853; commandant at Ferozepore 18 Dec. 1857 to death; col. in the army 28 Nov. 1854. d. Simla 15 Aug. 1859.
MACKENZIE, Sir James Thompson, 1 Baronet (son of George Mackenzie of Aberdeen, merchant 1773–1852). b. 27 Dec. 1818; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch.; went to India 1835 where he made a fortune; returned to England 1850, became a successful financier; purchased the estates of Kintail and Glenmuick near Ballater and there entertained the Shah on his visit to England 1889; created baronet 21 March 1890. d. Brighton 12 Aug. 1890. London Figaro 18 Jany. 1890 p. 9, col. 2, portrait.
MACKENZIE, John (2 son of sir Alexander Mackenzie of Gairloch, 3 baronet d. 1770). b. 19 Dec. 1763; lieut. 73 foot 1 Jany. 1778; captain in an independent company 13 Feb. 1782, placed on h.p. 1783; captain on formation of 78 highlanders 10 March 1793, lieut.-col. 15 July 1795, placed on h.p. 1802; general 10 Jany. 1837. d. Inverness 14 June 1860. bur. in Gairloch tomb at Beauly priory.
Note.—He was known by sobriquet of Fighting Jack, and was at time of his death the oldest officer in British army.