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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.