MACKENZIE, John. Entered Bengal army 1805; major 3 Bengal light cavalry 1 Nov. 1838 to 30 Oct. 1848; lieut.-col. 9 Bengal light cavalry 30 Oct. 1848 to 1852; lieut.-col. 7 Bengal light cavalry 1852 to death. d. Simla 5 May 1856.
MACKENZIE, John Campbell. b. 1804; connected with editorial department of Galignani’s messenger since 1840, edited it latterly. d. 65 Rue St. Anne, Paris 6 Dec. 1879.
MACKENZIE, John Francis Campbell. b. Scotland; sub-lieutenant R.N. 30 Aug. 1841; first lieut. of the Miranda during the Russian war serving in the White Sea and at Sebastopol 1854–5; served with a scaling ladder party at attack on Redan 1855; inspecting officer of coast guard at Swanage 1855, and at Ryde; captain 1 Oct. 1861, retired 31 March 1866; retired admiral 18 Oct. 1887; queen’s harbour master Holyhead 1872–92; connected with all the philanthropic movement in Anglesea; a knight of the legion of honour. d. of influenza, Holyhead 11 Jany. 1892. bur. with military honours 15 Jany. Times 12, 13, 16, 22 Jany. 1892.
MACKENZIE, John Kenneth (younger son of Alexander Mackenzie). b. Yarmouth, Norfolk 25 Aug. 1850; clerk in a merchant’s office at Bristol 1865; entered Bristol medical school, Oct. 1870; M.R.C.S. Lond. 1874; L.R.C.P. Edinb. 1874; appointed by London missionary society superintendent of medical station at Hankow, China, arrived there 8 June 1875; removed to Tien-tsin March 1879, where he founded a medical school for native students, obtained funds for erection of a new hospital at Tien-tsin, opened 2 Dec. 1880; edited The China medical missionary journal 1887. d. of small-pox at Tien-tsin 1 April 1888. Mrs. Bryson’s J. K. Mackenzie, medical missionary in China (1891), portrait.
MACKENZIE, Joshua Henry, Lord Mackenzie (eld. son of Henry Mackenzie, author of The man of feeling 1745–1831). b. 1777; passed advocate 19 Jany. 1799; sheriff of Linlithgow 1811; judge of court of session 14 Nov. 1822 to 1851 with courtesy title of lord Mackenzie; judge of court of justiciary 1824–51; one of comrs. of tentative jury court 1825–51. d. Belmont near Edinb. 17 Nov. 1851. G.M. xxxvii 93–4 (1852).
MACKENZIE, Kenneth Douglas (only son of Donald Mackenzie). b. 1 Feb. 1811; ensign 92 foot 25 Nov. 1831, captain 1844, major 26 Dec. 1857, placed on h.p. 15 Feb. 1861; deputy assistant A.G. in Dublin; deputy assistant Q.M.G. in the Crimea 1855, assistant A.G. at head quarters before Sebastopol 1855; assistant A.G. in Dublin during Fenian disturbances 1865–6; assistant Q.M.G. at the horse guards 1 April 1870 to death; C.B. 1 March 1861. d. on bank of river Meavy near Roborough, Devon 24 Aug. 1873 after being upset in a gig crossing the river Meavy. A.R. (1873) 79, 148.
MACKENZIE, Sir Morell (eld. son of Stephen Mackenzie, surgeon, d. 1851). b. Leytonstone, Essex 7 July 1837; clerk in Union Assurance company’s office 1853; studied at London hospital; M.R.C.S. 1858, M.B. London 1861, and M.D. 1862; assistant physician London hospital 5 Sep. 1866, phys. 1873, resigned 1873; chief founder of Hospital for diseases of the throat in King st. Golden sq. 1863; the first Englishman who became expert in operations on the larynx; attended at Berlin from 18 May 1887 to 13 June 1888 crown prince of Germany, afterwards the emperor Frederick III. who died from cancer in the throat 15 June 1888; published Oct. 1888 The fatal illness of Frederick the Noble, of which 100,000 copies were circulated, and for which he was censured by royal college of surgeons 10 Jany. 1889, returned his diploma to the college; knighted at Balmoral 7 Sep. 1887; granted grand cross of Hohenzollern order 1888; edited The pharmacopia of the hospital for disease of the throat 1872, 4 ed. 1881; The journal of laryngology 1887; author of Treatment of hoarseness and loss of voice 1863, 3 ed. 1871; Essays on growths in the larynx 1871; The use of the laryngoscope 1865, 3 ed. 1871; Diphtheria, its nature and treatment 1879; A manual of diseases of the throat and nose 2 vols. 1880–4; Hay fever, its etiology and treatment 1884, 5 ed. 1889. d. 19 Harley st. London 3 Feb. 1892. bur. in graveyard of St. Mary’s church, Wargrave, Berkshire 8 Feb. H. R. Haweis’s Sir M. Mackenzie (1893), portrait; Sir M. Mackenzie’s Essays (1893), portrait; Journal of laryngology, vi 95–108 (1892), portrait; Strand Mag. ii 371 (1891), 5 portraits; Victoria Mag. xxxiii 185 (1879), portrait; Provincial Medical Journal 1 April 1886 pp. 145–6, portrait.
MC KENZIE, Peter. b. Dumbarton 1799; a writer at Glasgow about 1825; a volunteer in The Glasgow sharpshooters 1819; established and edited The Loyal reformers’ gazette 7 May 1831, renamed it The Reformers’ gazette 12 May 1832, it ran as a weekly and then as a monthly to May 1836 and forms 6 vols., Northern Notes and Queries 4 vols. 1852–4 were compiled from the columns of this newspaper; imprisoned for publishing an unstamped newspaper; exposed Richmond the Glasgow spy; brought to light the fraudulent design of The Independent West Middlesex Fire and life insurance co.; author of An exposure of the spy-system pursued in Glasgow. Ed. by a Ten-Pounder 1833; The life of Thomas Muir, with a report of his trial 1831; Reminiscences of Glasgow and the west of Scotland 3 vols. d. while on a visit to his daughter in London 17 March 1875. bur. Glasgow necropolis. W. C. Maclehose’s Glasgow men, ii 199–202 (1886), portrait.
MACKENZIE, Richard James (4 son of Richard Mackenzie of Dolphington, deputy keeper of her majesty’s signet). b. Edinburgh 31 March 1821; ed. at the new academy 1829–36; apprenticed to Adam Hunter, F.R.C.S. 1838; M.D. 1 Aug. 1842; M.R.C.S. 1841, F.R.C.S. 1844; studied in London, Paris, Hamburg, Vienna and Berlin 1842–4; practised in Edinburgh 1844–9; assistant surgeon in royal infirmary 1848, surgeon there 1850; lecturer on systematic surgery in Extra Academical sch. 1849; with the army in the Crimea attached to 79 regt. 1849, performed 27 operations after the battle of the Alma. d. of cholera on the heights of Bornoo, Crimea 25 Sep. 1854. Begbie and Struthers’ Memoir of R. J. Mackenzie (1855), portrait.
MACKENZIE, Robert (son of a parish schoolmaster). b. Barry, Forfarshire 1823; reporter to the Northern Warder at Dundee about 1843, then sub-edited the paper; partner in mercantile firm of Mackenzie, Ramsay & Co. Dundee, which failed 1857; frequently visited America; agent for Westinghouse brake co.; author of The United States of America 1870; The nineteenth century 1880; America, a history 1882. d. Magdalen yard road, Dundee 2 Feb. 1881.