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George MacKenzie
George Mackenzie may refer to: People *George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (1636–1691), Scottish lawyer *George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie (1630–1714), Scottish Secretary of State *George Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Seaforth (died 1651), Highland clan chief and Scottish nobleman *George Mackenzie (died 1760) (c. 1662–1760), MP for Inverness Burghs, 1710–13 * Sir George Mackenzie, 4th Baronet (c. 1702–1748), MP for Cromarty, 1729–34 *George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie (c. 1703–1766), Scottish nobleman *George Mackenzie (1741–1787), army officer at Great Siege of Gibraltar *George Mackenzie (Royal Navy officer) (died 1780), British admiral *Sir George Mackenzie, 7th Baronet (1780–1848), Scottish mineralogist *George Henry Mackenzie (1837–1891), Scottish-American chess master *George MacKenzie (wrestler) (1890–1956), British champion wrestler * George K. MacKenzie (1910–1943), U.S. Navy officer * George P. MacKenzie (1873–1953), former administrator for the Can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mackenzie Of Rosehaugh
Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (1636 – May 8, 1691) was a Scottish lawyer, Lord Advocate, essayist and legal writer. Early life Mackenzie, who was born in Dundee, was the son of Sir Simon Mackenzie of Lochslin (died c. 1666) and Elizabeth Bruce, daughter of the Reverend Peter Bruce, minister of St Leonard's, and Principal of St Leonard's Hall in the University of St Andrews. He was a grandson of Kenneth, Lord Mackenzie of Kintail and a nephew of George Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Seaforth. He was educated at the King's College, University of Aberdeen (which he entered in 1650), the University of St Andrews, and the University of Bourges in France. Career Mackenzie was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1659, and spoke in defence at the trial of Archibald Campbell, Marquis of Argyll in 1661. He acted as justice-depute from 1661 to 1663, a post that involved him in extensive witch trials. Mackenzie was knighted, and was a member of the Scottish Parliament for the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mackenzie, 1st Earl Of Cromartie
George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie FRS (1630–1714), known as Sir George Mackenzie, 2nd Baronet from 1654 to 1685 and as The Viscount of Tarbat from 1685 to 1703, was a Scottish statesman. Life He was born at Innerteil, near Kinghorn, Fife, in 1630, was eldest son of Sir John Mackenzie of Tarbat – grandson of Sir Roderick MacKenzie and great-grandson of Colin Mackenzie of Kintail, and nephew of the first Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, Ross-shire, the progenitor of the Mackenzies, earls of Seaforth. His mother was Margaret, daughter of Sir George Erskine of Innerteil, lord Innerteil, a lord of the court of session. He was educated at the St Andrews University and King's College, Aberdeen, where he graduated in 1646. He became an accomplished classical scholar, and cultivated interests in literature and science, but politics was his chief interest. In 1653, he joined Glencairn's uprising on behalf of Charles II, and on the defeat of John Middleton, 1st Earl of Middleton, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mackenzie, 2nd Earl Of Seaforth
George Mackenzie, 2nd Earl of Seaforth (died 1651) was a Highland clan chief and Scottish nobleman, who played an equivocating role in Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Origins Mackenzie was the son of Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Lord Mackenzie of Kintail (died 1611), and Isobel, the daughter of Sir Gilbert Ogilvie of Powrie. 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. On the death in 1633 of his elder half-brother Colin without male heirs, Mackenzie inherited his estates and the title of Earl of Seaforth. Prior to that point, he was known as George Mackenzie of Kildun. Estates As a result of the acquisitive proclivities of Seaforth's ancestors, his estates were very extensive. In 1633 he was "served heir male to his brother … in the lands and barony of Ellandonnan, including the barony of Lochalsh, in which was included the barony of the lands and towns of Lochca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mackenzie (died 1760)
George Mackenzie (c.1662–1760) of Inchcoulter, Balconie, Kiltearn, Ross-shire, was a Scottish politician who sat in the Parliament of Scotland from 1704 to 1707, and in the British House of Commons from 1710 to 1713. Mackenzie was the eldest son of Alexander Mackenzie of Inchcoulter and his first wife. Katherine Mackenzie, daughter of William Mackenzie of Belmathudie, Knockbairn, Ross- shire. He succeeded his father in about 1687. He married Anne Mackenzie (with 5,000 merks), daughter of Mackenzie of Fairburn, Ross-shire in June 1695. By 1704, Mackenzie was appointed Sheriff depute for Ross-shire. He was returned as Shire Commissioner for Ross-shire at a by election in 1704. After the Act of Union in 1707, he was not one of those returned to the British House of Commons for Scotland. Mackenzie became provost of Fortrose in 1710 and was also elected Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Mackenzie, 4th Baronet
Sir George Mackenzie, 4th Baronet (c. 1702–1748), of Cromarty and Grandvale, was a Scottish politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1729 to 1734. Mackenzie was the eldest son of Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, 3rd Baronet, of Cromarty by his second wife. He succeeded his father to the baronetcy on 13 September 1728. Mackenzie also succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Cromartyshire being returned at a by-election on 25 March 1729. He was an independent, voting with the Administration on the army in 1732, but against them on the Excise Bill in 1733 and the repeal of the Septennial Act in 1734. In 1734, there was no election at Cromartyshire, which was an alternating constituency. Mackenzie became bankrupt and sold his estate of Cromarty in 1741. At the time of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion he stayed loyal, although his cousin, George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie (c. 1703 – 28 September 1766) was a Scottish nobleman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl Of Cromartie
George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie (c. 1703 – 28 September 1766) was a Scottish nobleman. Life He succeeded his father John, the 2nd earl, in February 1731. In 1745, he joined Charles Edward Stuart and he served with the Jacobites until April 1746 when he was taken prisoner in Sutherland after the Battle of Littleferry. He was tried and sentenced to death, but he obtained a conditional pardon although his peerage was forfeited, allegedly because his wife was heavily pregnant. He was however reduced to extreme poverty, because the family estates and rights were confiscated in 1748. He died on 28 September 1766 in Soho Square, London, having never gone north of the River Trent again, in keeping with the terms of his pardon. Family He married Isabel Gordon, daughter of Sir William Gordon of Invergordon, on 23 September 1724 and had a large family of young children in 1746. His numerous children, three sons, and nine daughters, were: *John Mackenzie, Lord MacLeod, de jure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mackenzie (1741–1787)
George Mackenzie (1741 – 4 June 1787) was a British officer who commanded the 2nd battalion of the 73rd Highlanders during the Great Siege of Gibraltar. Life Mackenzie was born in Tarbat House in Ross-shire in Scotland. He was one of the twelve children of George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie. His father was found guilty of treason and sentenced to death for raising a Jacobite regiment, but then pardoned. He managed to avoid any problems because he was only five at the time of his father's trial. He joined the army and work his way up the ranks of the Royal Regiment until he was placed in commanded of the 2nd battalion of the 73rd Highlanders in 1778. He was in charge at the Great Siege of Gibraltar and he was included in several commemorative painting including The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789 by John Trumball. Masckenzie, Charles Holloway, Thomas Trigge, General William Green and George Koehler are amongst those recorded as the principal officers servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Mackenzie (Royal Navy Officer)
Vice-Admiral George Mackenzie (died 1780) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, The Nore from 1774 to 1775. Naval career Mackenzie became commanding officer of the frigate in July 1745 and then of the frigate in August 1745. Promoted to captain in January 1746, he commanded, successively, the frigate , the sixth-rate and the fourth-rate and saw action in the Louisbourg Expedition. He went on to command the fifth-rate and saw action in the Raid on St Malo in June 1758, the invasion of Martinique in January 1759 and the invasion of Guadeloupe in spring 1759. After that he was given command of the fourth-rate and took part in the siege of Havana in spring 1762. We went on to command the third-rate and then the third rate . He became Commander-in-Chief Jamaica Station in August 1770 and then served as Commander-in-Chief, The Nore from January 1774 to 1775. He was appointed Rear-Admiral of the Red in January 1778 and Vice-Admiral of the Blue in March 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir George Mackenzie, 7th Baronet
Sir George Steuart Mackenzie, 7th Baronet FRS FRSE FSA (22 June 1780–26 October 1848) was a Scottish geologist, chemist and agricultural improver. Life The only son of Major General Sir Alexander Mackenzie of Coul (d.1796), a General in the Bengal Army, by his wife Katharine Ramsay (d.1806), daughter of Robert Ramsay of Camno, he was born on 22 June 1780. He was tutored privately then spent one year at Edinburgh's High School (1795/6). He then studied sciences at the University of Edinburgh. In 1796 he succeeded to the baronetcy aged 16, on the death of his father. He first became known to the scientific world in 1800, when he claimed a proof of the identity of diamond with carbon by a series of experiments on the formation of steel by the combination of diamonds with iron; in these experiments he is said to have made free use of his mother's jewels. In 1799 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir James Hall, John Playfair and Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Henry Mackenzie
George Henry Mackenzie (24 March 1837, North Kessock, Scotland – 14 April 1891, New York City) was a Scottish-born American chess master. Biography Mackenzie was educated mainly in Aberdeen, at the Aberdeen Grammar School and the Marischal College, University of Aberdeen; but he studied in Rouen, France, and Stettin, Prussia, from 1853 to 1855.. From ''Harper's Magazine''. He was commissioned into the 60th Foot as an ensign in 1856 when he was nineteen years old. Soon after, his regiment was sent to the Cape of Good Hope, and from there to India. He traveled to England in 1858, having been promoted to the rank of lieutenant. In 1861 he sold his commission and retired from the army. Mackenzie began to practice chess in 1853, and in 1862 he won a handicap tournament in London in which he defeated Adolf Anderssen.Arthur Bisguier and Andrew Soltis, ''American Chess Masters from Morphy to Fischer'' (1974), pp. 36–37 In 1863, during the middle of the American Civil War, he mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George MacKenzie (wrestler)
George MacKenzie (21 November 1888 – 27 June 1957) was a wrestler from Islington. Mackenzie became British lightweight champion in 1909, winning the title again in 1912, 1922, 1924, 1932, and 1941. Additionally, he held the featherweight title in 1921 and 1922. He lost the title to W Schneeberger in 1923, but regained the title in 1924. He was a leading member and coach of the Pentonville-based Ashdown Club, the premier British wrestling association of the period. Mackenzie competed in the 1908 Olympics The 1908 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the IV Olympiad and also known as London 1908) were an international multi-sport event held in London, England, United Kingdom, from 27 April to 31 October 1908. The 1908 Games were ori ..., finishing fourth. He competed in four further Olympics in total, up to 1928. He officiated at an additional four, and was chosen to carry the UK flag in the opening ceremony of the 1956 Olympics. He died of lung cancer in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George K
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