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Colin Mackenzie (other)
Colin Mackenzie (1754–1821) was Surveyor General of India, art collector and orientalist. Colin Mackenzie may also refer to: * Colin Mackenzie (Scottish writer) (1796–1854), writer, editor, translator and compiler *Colin Mackenzie (Indian Army officer) (1806–1881), British political officer in Afghanistan *Colin Mackenzie (British Army officer) (1861–1956), British soldier *William Colin Mackenzie (1877–1938), Australian fauna park founder *Colin Hercules Mackenzie (1898–1986), head of Force 136 *Colin Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth (c. 1590–1633), Highland clan chief and Scottish nobleman *Colin Cam Mackenzie, 11th of Kintail (died 1594), Highland chief * Colin MacKenzie (poet), Australian poet and songwriter *Colin Mackenzie of Portmore (1770–1830), Scottish lawyer and companion of Sir Walter Scott *Colin Mackenzie (athlete) Colin Mackenzie (born 30 June 1963) is a retired British javelin thrower. He finished seventh at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. He also com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Mackenzie
Colonel Colin Mackenzie CB (1754–8 May 1821) was Scottish army officer in the British East India Company who later became the first Surveyor General of India. He was a collector of antiquities and an orientalist. He surveyed southern India, making use of local interpreters and scholars to study religion, oral histories, inscriptions and other evidence, initially out of personal interest, and later as a surveyor. He was ordered to survey the Mysore region shortly after the British victory over Tipu Sultan in 1799 and produced the first maps of the region along with illustrations of the landscape and notes on archaeological landmarks. His collections consisting of thousands of manuscripts, inscriptions, translations, coins and paintings, which were acquired after his death by the India Office Library and are an important source for the study of Indian history. He was awarded a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 4 June 1815. Early life Colin Mackenzie was born in Storno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Mackenzie (Scottish Writer)
Colin Mackenzie was a nineteenth century literary contributor/hack writer, editor, translator and compiler. Between 1849 and 1851 he was the secretary of Charles Cochrane's 'National Philanthropic Association.' Mackenzie spent his adult life living and working in London, England. His interests were wide ranging and his publications reflected this. They were primarily works of non-fiction, including educational and informative works on chemistry, cookery, medicine, popular science, geography, history, economics and religion, but he also wrote about the 'gentlemen's clubs' of London, a 'parliamentary pocketbook' with a strong reformist leaning in 1832 (the year of the first Reform Act) and, towards the end of his career, a report on the chronic poverty and famine that scarred Britain and engulfed Ireland in the late 1840s. Biography Mackenzie was born in Edinburgh on 8 May 1795. Between 1810 and 1814 he studied for a Master of Arts degree at Kings College, Aberdeen University. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Mackenzie (Indian Army Officer)
Lieutenant general Colin Mackenzie, CB (25 March 1806 – 22 October 1881) was a British officer in the Madras Army who was active as a political officer in Afghanistan. Early life He was born in London on 25 March 1806, and baptised at St James's Church, Piccadilly, the youngest son but one of Kenneth Francis Mackenzie (died 1831) and his wife, Anne Townsend. His father, who belonged to the Redcastle branch of Mackenzies, was attorney-general of Grenada, and lost much during the war with France, 1793–1815. Colin Mackenzie was educated successively at a school in Cumberland, at Dollar Academy, and at Oswestry, and in 1825 was appointed a cadet of infantry on the Madras establishment of the East India Company. Mackenzie served as adjutant of the 48th Madras native infantry in the Coorg campaign in 1834, during some of which he held the appointment of deputy-assistant quartermaster-general. At the close of the campaign his services were favourably noticed by the brigadier-gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Mackenzie (British Army Officer)
Major-General Sir Colin John Mackenzie (26 November 1861 – 7 July 1956) was a British soldier and Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Militia (later the Canadian Army), from 1910 until 1913. Background Mackenzie was the eldest son of Major-General Colin Mackenzie, of the Madras Staff Corps, by Victoria Henrietta Mackinnon (the eldest daughter of Charles Mackinnon of Corriechatachan). His paternal grandfather, John Mackenzie of Inverness, a banker, was descended from the Mackenzies of Portmore. Military career Educated at Edinburgh Academy and at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Mackenzie was commissioned into the Bedfordshire Regiment of the British Army, at the time the 16th Regiment of Foot in January, 1881, but soon transferred into the Seaforth Highlanders. He took part in the Nile expedition of 1882, the Burma expedition of 1886 and the Hazara expedition in 1888, and was promoted to captain on 25 October 1889. Following promotion to major on 27 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Colin Mackenzie
Sir William Colin Mackenzie PRSA FRSE (9 March 1877 – 29 June 1938), usually known as Colin Mackenzie, was an Australian anatomist, benefactor, museum administrator and director. He was best known for creating Healesville Sanctuary. Early life Mackenzie was the youngest son of John Mackenzie, a draper, and Anne, née McKay, both of Scottish origin. He was born at Kilmore, Victoria and was educated at the local state school, continuing his education at Scotch College, Melbourne after obtaining a scholarship. He qualified for matriculation with honours in Greek at the end of 1893, and beginning his course at the University of Melbourne soon afterwards, graduated MB, with first class honours in surgery, obstetric medicine and diseases of women and children in 1899. He later took out a BS degree in 1902. Medical career Mackenzie had a year's hospital practice at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, for two years was senior resident medical officer at the Royal Children's Hospital, and wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Hercules Mackenzie
Colin Hercules Mackenzie, CMG (1898–1986), a soldier, industrialist, and aesthete, was a Special Operations Executive spymaster who led Force 136 throughout the period of its existence during the Second World War. Origins Mackenzie was the son of Major-General Sir Colin Mackenzie and Ethel Ross, the daughter of Hercules Grey Ross ICS and granddaughter of the sportsman and photographer Horatio Ross. Of Scottish ancestry on both sides of his family, he had the peripatetic childhood typical of many children of British Army officers. Education After Summer Fields and Eton (where he was a King's Scholar), Mackenzie was commissioned into the Scots Guards and was badly wounded at the very end of the First World War, undergoing a series of amputations of his leg in an ultimately successful battle against gangrene.Alan Ogden, ''Tigers Burning Bright: SOE Heroes in the Far East'' (Bene Factum Publishing, London, 2013), at pages 72 to 81 Following the war, Mackenzie went up to King's Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Mackenzie, 1st Earl Of Seaforth
Colin Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth (1596/97–1633), was a Highland clan chief and Scottish nobleman, possessed of vast estates and wealth. Origins Mackenzie, nicknamed "Ruadh" (i.e. "Red"), was the eldest son of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Lord Mackenzie of Kintail by his first wife, Ann, daughter of George Ross of Balnagown. The Mackenzies were a clan from Ross-shire that had risen to prominence in the 15th century during the disintegration of the Lordship of the Isles. The final subjection of Lewis Mackenzie was only 14 when his father died in 1611, and the clan territories were therefore entrusted to his uncle, Sir Roderick Mackenzie of Coigach, the "Tutor of Kintail". Upon Lord Mackenzie's death, Neil Macleod and other members of the Macleods of Lewis, whom Lord Mackenzie had recently subdued, rose in rebellion in Lewis. A number of commissions against them were granted between 1611 and 1616 to the Tutor of Kintail, Colin Mackenzie of Killin, Murdo Mackenzie of Kernsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Cam Mackenzie, 11th Of Kintail
Colin Mackenzie of Kintail (died 14 June 1594), nicknamed "Cam" ("crooked", because one-eyed), was a Highland chief of the Scottish clan Mackenzie who greatly increased his ancestral estates through royal favour and a career of vigorous self-aggrandisement. Origins Mackenzie was the second, but eldest surviving, son of Kenneth Mackenzie, 10th of Kintail (died 6 June 1568) and Lady Elizabeth Stewart, the daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl. The Mackenzies were a clan from Ross-shire that had risen to prominence in the 15th century during the disintegration of the Lordship of the Isles. Royal favour Mackenzie fought for Mary, Queen of Scots, at the Battle of Langside in the year 1568 where she was defeated and forced into exile. He subsequently became a favourite of her son King James. According to his descendant the Earl of Cromartie, "there was none in the North for whom the King hade a greater esteem than for this Colin. He made him one of his Privie Councillors, and of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin MacKenzie (poet)
Colin Mackenzie is an Australian poet and songwriter. Awards In 2012 Mackenzie won, with Alita Fahey, the Canberra Country Songwriting Award for Best Honky Tonk Song (''Night Horses''). The song ''The Boy from Cooroy'' (written with Alita Fahey, recorded by Brothers3 Brothers3 are an Australian country music band from Mudgee, New South Wales. The band consists of brothers Makirum, Shardyn and Tayzin Fahey-Leigh. In 2014, Brothers3 placed third on the sixth season of ''The X Factor Australia''. Early life Br ...) was a finalist in the Australian Songwriting Competition for Best Australian Song in 2014, and a finalist in the 2015 Australian Country Music People's Choice award. Works *''Dust on the Leaves'', 2013 *''Lost lines: poems, songs, and photographs'', 2015 *''Random Thoughts: A Collection of Poems and Songs'' 2016 (selected poems and songs from ''Dust on the Leaves'' and ''Lost Lines'') * Shannon O'Leary (2016) ''The Blood on My Hands: An Autobiography'' (editor) Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Mackenzie Of Portmore
Colin Mackenzie of Portmore WS FRSE (1770-1830) was a Scottish lawyer and companion of Sir Walter Scott. Life Mackenzie was born on 11 January 1770 the son of Alexander Mackenzie of Portmore in Peebleshire and his wife Anne. He went to school in Edinburgh and was a friend of Walter Scott, travelling with him in later life. He apprenticed as a lawyer with his father, Alexander Mackenzie WS at 14 Princes Street and qualified as a Writer to the Signet in 1790. In 1800 he was operating as a lawyer from 14 Princes Street in Edinburgh’s New Town having then taken over his father’s firm. He was Principal Clerk of Session to the Scottish Courts 1804-1808 and Deputy Keeper of the Signet 1820-1828. In 1822 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, his proposer being James Skene of Rubislaw. He died on 16 September 1830. Family His wife, Elizabeth Forbes (1781-1840), whom he married in 1803, was a great beauty and was painted by Sir Henry Raeburn. The painting is h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Mackenzie (athlete)
Colin Mackenzie (born 30 June 1963) is a retired British javelin thrower. He finished seventh at the 1986 Commonwealth Games. He also competed at the 1991 World Championships, the 1993 World Championships and the 1994 European Championships without reaching the final. Throwing for Wales in 1986, he later switched his Commonwealth Games allegiance to England. His personal best throw was 82.60 achieve in oristano Italy June 1991 Edinburgh. At a meet in Palio della Quercia, Italy on 24 July 1994, Mackenzie failed a doping test, having taken dextropropoxyphene. The medication was for an ankle injury that would also bar him from competing at the 1994 Commonwealth Games The 1994 Commonwealth Games ( French: ''XVéme Jeux du Commonwealth'') were held in Victoria, British Columbia, from 18 to 28 August 1994. Ten types of sports were featured at the Victoria Games: athletics, aquatics, badminton, boxing, cycling, ... in August. In September, the failed test was revealed. Macken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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