MACKENZIE, Robert Shelton (2 son of Kenneth Mackenzie, captain in the army, author of books in Gaelic). b. Drew’s court, Limerick 22 June 1809; apprentice to an apothecary in Cork 1822 and passed his medical examination 1825; opened a school at Fermoy 1825; newspaper reporter; editor of a newspaper at Hanley, Staffs. 1829; wrote memoirs for The Georgian Era, London 1830–1; editor of Liverpool journal; English correspondent of New York Evening star 1834–51, being the first European correspondent for the American press; editor of a railway journal, London 1845; official assignee in commissioner Skirrow’s bankruptcy court, Manchester, dismissed from office 25 Oct. 1852; went to U.S. of America 1852; book and foreign editor of Philadelphia Press 1857; LL.D. of Glasgow univ. 1834; author of Lays of Palestine 1828; Titian, a romance of Venice 3 vols. 1843; Partnership en commandité 1847; Mornings at Matlock 3 vols. 1850; Life of C. Dickens 1870; Sir Walter Scott, the story of his life 1871; compiled, edited and issued many works in America 1854–71. d. Philadelphia 30 Nov. 1880. Law Times 30 Oct. 1852 pp. 66–7.
MACKENZIE, Thomas (son of Kenneth Mackenzie). b. 1793; a writer to the signet 4 March 1816; M.P. Ross and Cromarty 1837–47. d. Heriot row, Edinburgh 9 June 1856.
MACKENZIE, Thomas, Lord Mackenzie (son of George Mackenzie, tradesman, Perth). b. Perth 16 April 1807; ed. at St. Andrew’s and Edinb.; called to Scottish bar 1832; sheriff of Ross and Cromarty 28 June 1851; solicitor general 10 Jany. 1855; a lord of session with title of Lord Mackenzie 29 Jany. 1855, retired 1864; author of Studies in Roman law, with comparative views of the laws of France, England and Scotland 1862, 6 ed. 1886. d. 24 Heriot row, Edinb. 26 Sep. 1869. Journal of Jurisprudence, Nov. 1869 pp. 609–10; Law mag. and law rev. xxix 271–3 (1870).
MACKENZIE, William. b. Burnley, Lancs. 20 March 1794; apprenticed to Thomas Claphan, lock carpenter of Leeds and Liverpool canal 1811; resident engineer on Birmingham canal to 1832, where his works are still considered finest of the kind in Great Britain; made a great many railways in France with Thomas Brassey 1840–48; M.I.C.E. 1837. d. 19 Oct. 1851. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xi 102–5 (1852).
MACKENZIE, William (son of James Mackenzie, muslin manufacturer, d. 1800). b. Queen st. Glasgow 29 April 1791; ed. Glasgow univ., M.D. 1833; studied in France and Italy 1816; learnt ophthalmology under Beer in Vienna 1817; M.R.C.S. 1818, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon in London 1818, and in Glasgow 1819 to death; with George Monteath established an eye infirmary, Glasgow 1824; Waltonian lecturer and lecturer on diseases of the eye, Glasgow univ. 1828; edited Glasgow medical journal vols. 1 and 2, 1828–9; surgeon occulist to the queen in Scotland 1838; author of An essay on the diseases of the excreting parts of the lachrymal organs 1819; Practical treatise of the diseases of the eye 1830, 4 ed. 1854, which gave him an European reputation; The cure of strabismus by surgical operation 1841; The physiology of vision 1841. Outlines of ophthalmology 3 ed. 1856. d. Bath st. Glasgow 30 July 1868. Maclehose’s Memoirs of Glasgow men, ii 203–4 (1886), portrait; Glasgow Medical journal, i 6–13 (1868).
MACKENZIE, William. Ed. Edinb. univ.; presbyterian minister Poolewe 1827; minister at Comrie 1829, at Dunblane 1841–3; minister North Leith Free ch. 1844; author of Gershom, or the 33,000 words of Jesus Christ, the central fountain of truth, unity and healing. Edinb. 1847; Christ’s own teaching, in portions for all the days in the year 1847. Scott’s Fasti, ii pt. 2 p. 754 (1869).
MACKENZIE, William Bell (son of James Mackenzie d. 1822). b. Sheffield 7 April 1806; studied at Magd. hall Oxf. 1830–4, B.A. 1834, M.A. 1837; C. of St. James’s, Bristol 1834–8; V. of St. James’s, Holloway, London 1838 to death; one of the first to start special services in St. Paul’s cathedral; author of Bible characters 2 vols. 1854–5; Gleanings from the gospel story 1860; Handbook for the sick 1859, 4 ed. 1861; Married life, its duties, trials and joys 1861, 3 ed. 1890; Saul of Tarsus, his life and lessons 1864; Bible studies for family reading 1867 and 35 other books. d. Ramsgate 22 Nov. 1870. bur. Highgate cemetery 30 Nov. Gordon Calthrop’s Memorials of W. B. Mackenzie (1872), biographical sketch pp. ix–xci, portrait.
MACKENZIE, William Forbes (brother of Charles Frederick Mackenzie 1825–62). b. Portmore, Peebleshire 18 April 1807; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf.; called to the bar 1827; M.P. Peeblesshire 1837–52; a lord of treasury April 1845 to Feb. 1846, joint secretary to treasury Feb. to Dec. 1852; M.P. Liverpool 9 July 1852, unseated on petition 21 June 1853; contested Derby 28 March 1857; unpaid comr. and chairman of general board of comrs. in lunacy for Scotland 13 June 1859 to death; author of the act for the regulation of public-houses in Scotland 16 & 17 Vict. c. 67, 15 Aug. 1853 known as the Forbes Mackenzie’s act which provides for the closing of public-houses on Sundays and at ten p.m. on weekdays. d. The Glen, Peeblesshire 24 Sep. 1862.
MACKENZIE, William Lyon (son of Daniel Mackenzie d. 1795). b. Springfield, Dundee 12 March 1795; kept a store at Alyth 1814–17; emigrated to Canada 1820; established a book store at Queenstown 1823; removed to Toronto where he established the Colonial Advocate, May 1824, discontinued 1834, revived under name of The Constitution 1836; member for county of York in legislative assembly of Upper Canada 1828, expelled for his violent language 1831, re-elected twice in 1831, re-expelled twice, finally excluded by disfranchisement of co. York; chosen mayor of Toronto, May 1834; re-elected for co. York Oct. 1834, and allowed to take his seat which he lost in 1836; publicly proclaimed establishment of a provisional government 25 Nov. 1837; appeared at head of 800 rebels near Toronto 4 Dec. 1837, utterly defeated by the government troops at Montgomery’s Tavern 7 Dec., escaped to Navy Island on the Niagara river where he tried to prolong the insurrection but was condemned to 12 months’ imprisonment for breaking the neutrality laws 1839; contributed to New York Tribune some years; returned to Canada on proclamation of amnesty 1849; member of legislature of the united provinces 1850–8; started a journal ‘Mackenzie’s Message,’ which failed; author of Sketches of Canada and the United States 1833; The lives and opinions of R. F. Butler and J. Hoyt 1845; The life and times of M. Van Buren 1846. d. Toronto 28 Aug. 1861. C. Lindsey’s Life of W. L. Mackenzie. Toronto 2 vols. (1862), portrait; Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 241; Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 201; G.M. xi 566–8 (1861).
MC KERROW, John. b. Mauchline, Ayrshire 15 May 1789; ed. at Glasgow univ. 1803–7, and divinity hall of Secession ch. at Selkirk 1807–12; minister of Ecclefechan and Bridge of Teith 1813 to death; D.D. Washington college, U.S.A. 1841; author of History of the Secession church 1839, new ed. 1841; The office of ruling elder in the Christian church 1846; History of the foreign missions of the Secession and united presbyterian churches 1867. d. at Bridge of Teith 13 May 1867. John Smith’s Our Scottish clergy 3 series (1851) 297–303; United Presbyterian Mag. Sep. 1867 p. 285.