Donald Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie

For other persons named Donald MacKenzie, see Donald McKenzie (disambiguation).

The Hon. Donald Mackenzie, styled Lord Mackenzie, (22 June 1818 – 19 May 1875) was a Senator of the College of Justice, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Early life

24 Heriot Row, Edinburgh
The grave of Donald MacKenzie, Lord MacKenzie, Dean Cemetery

Donald Mackenzie was born 22 June 1818, the only son of Capt. Donald Mackenzie, of the 21st Fusiliers and Margaret Robina Jamieson, daughter of the Rev. John Jamieson, DD, author of the Scottish National Dictionary.[1] He studied at the Loretto School and the University of Edinburgh. He originally studied medicine, and became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and also a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.[2] Mackenzie never practised as a physician, instead, yielding to his mother's wishes, he took up the study of the law.[2]

Legal career

Mackenzie was admitted as an advocate to the Scottish bar in 1842.[1] He was Advocate Depute from 1854 to 1858, and again from 1859 to 1861.[1] He served as the Sheriff of Fifeshire from 1861 to 1870.[1] On 16 March 1870, he was appointed a Judge of the Court of Session in Scotland, under the name Lord Mackenzie.[1][3][4]

Personal life

On 6 September 1843, Mackenzie married Janet Alice Mitchell (1821-1914), the daughter of Andrew Mitchell, Esq. of Maulside, Ayrshire.[5] The couple had 12 children. Lord Mackenzie's eldest daughter, Lilias Oswald Mackenzie, married John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, in 1869.[6] His oldest son, also named Donald Mackenzie, married Laura Augusta Mackenzie Douglas, the granddaughter of Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet.[7] Another son, Andrew Mitchell Mackenzie, married Helen Maria Mackenzie Douglas, a second granddaughter of Sir Archibald Campbell.[7] His youngest daughter, Mary Oswald Mackenzie, married Charles Frewen Jenkin, an engineer and later Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford.[8]

Mackenzie's Edinburgh townhouse was at 24 Heriot Row: a fine Georgian townhouse in the New Town.[9]

Mackenzie died at Maulside, Dulwich Wood Park, Norwood, outside London, England, on 19 May 1875.[1][10] He had taken a leave of absence, due to ill health, from his duties at the College of Justice only a short time before his death.[1] He is buried in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. The grave lies on the western wall in the section known as "Lord's Row".

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 The Law Times. Office of The Law Times, London, England. 5 June 1875. p. 109. Retrieved 6 February 2014. Vol. 59
  2. 1 2 "The Law Magazine and Review". The Lord Mackenzie. London, England: Stevens and Haynes. 1875. Retrieved 6 February 2014. Vol. IV
  3. ↑ Watt, James Crabb (1893). John Inglis, Lord Justice-general of Scotland, A Memoir. W. Green & Sons, Edinburgh, Scotland. p. 491. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  4. ↑ The Solicitors' Journal and reporter. Law Newspaper Company, London, England. 1870. Retrieved 7 February 2014. Vol. 14
  5. ↑ "Donald Mackenzie and Jane Alice Mitchell Marriage Certificate". Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  6. ↑ Mair, LL.D., Robert Henry (1881). "Debrett's House of Commons and The Judicial Branch". Dean & Son, London, England. p. 9. Retrieved 7 February 2014. J. B. Balfour (Clackmannan and Kinross-shire)
  7. 1 2 Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Dean & Son, Limited, London, England. 1902. p. 185. Retrieved 7 February 2014. Douglas, Creation 1831, of Glenbervie, Kincardine
  8. ↑ "Obituaries: Dr C. F. Jenkins". The Times. 26 August 1940.
  9. ↑ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1861-62
  10. ↑ Barclay, Hugh, and Laidlaw, I. S. H. (1875). The Journal of Jurisprudence. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, Scotland. p. 316. Retrieved 7 February 2014. Vol. 19

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