Modern English biography

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. 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.