The Hon. Donald Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie

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(22 June 1818 – 19 May 1875) was a Scottish lawyer who served as a

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Early life

Donald Mackenzie was born 22 June 1818, the only son of Margaret Robina Jamieson, daughter of the Rev.

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, DD, author of the Scottish National Dictionary, and Capt. Donald Mackenzie, of the 21st Fusiliers. In early life the family lived at 39 George Square in south Edinburgh. He studied at the

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and the

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. He originally studied medicine, graduating with an MD at the

in 1838, and became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and also a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Mackenzie never practised as a physician, instead, yielding to his mother's wishes, he took up the study of the law.

Legal career and later life

Mackenzie was admitted as an advocate to the

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bar in 1842. He was

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from 1854 to 1858, and again from 1859 to 1861. He served as the

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shire from 1861 to 1870. On 16 March 1870, he was appointed a

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of the Court of Session in Scotland, under the name Lord Mackenzie. Mackenzie's Edinburgh Georgian townhouse was at 24 Heriot Row, in the

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. In 1870 he was elected a Fellow of the

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his proposer being his legal colleague,

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. Mackenzie died at Maulside, Dulwich Wood Park, Norwood, outside London, England, on 19 May 1875. Due to ill health he had taken a leave of absence from his duties at the College of Justice a short time before his death. He is buried in

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in Edinburgh, Scotland. The grave lies on the western wall in the section known as "Lord's Row".

Family

On 6 September 1843, Mackenzie married Janet Alice Mitchell (1821-1914), the daughter of Andrew Mitchell, Esq. of Maulside,

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. The couple had 12 children. * Donald Mackenzie (1844-1924), married Laura Augusta Mackenzie Douglas, the granddaughter of Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet * Lilias Oswald Mackenzie, married

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, in 1869 Died in 1872 * Andrew Mitchell Mackenzie (1847-1885), Stockbroker, married Helen Maria Mackenzie Douglas, a second granddaughter of Sir Archibald Campbell * Charlotte Margaret Robina Mackenzie (1850-1903) * Alice Elizabeth Mackenzie (b. 1852), married Charles Walker * Annie Adele Mackenzie (1854-1925), married the Hon. Alexander Low, Lord Low, a Senator of the College of Justice, Edinburgh, Scotland * Robert Jameson Mackenzie (1857-1912), Rector of Edinburgh Academy 1888 -1901 and author of the book, "Almond of Loretto" * Alastair Oswald Morison Mackenzie, K.C. (1858-1949),

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, then later Renfrewshire, and later still

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shire * Farquhar John Conrad Mackenzie (1861-1916), Farmer in USA * The Right Reverend Dr. Kenneth Mackenzie (1863-1945), Bishop of Argyll and The Isles * Mary Oswald Mackenzie (1866-1954), married

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, an engineer and later Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford

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Portrait of Donald Mackenzie
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