John Grant McKenzie (1882–1963) was a Scottish Congregational minister, psychologist and academic. McKenzie was born in

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on 5 February 1882"McKenzie, John Grant"
''Who Was Who'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 2 March 2020. and studied at the

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,"Dr. J. G. McKenzie", ''The Times'' (London), 20 May 1963, p. 16. winning the

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in 1910. He became a Congregational pastor in Holywell Green Church, Halifax, in 1912, serving there until he moved in 1917 to Snow Hill in

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where he was a pastor until 1921. He had been a delegate at the

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in 1920. In 1921, McKenzie was appointed the first Jesse Boot Professor of Sociology and Psychology at

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. He remained there for thirty years, retiring in 1951. According to his obituary in ''

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'', he was "a pioneer in the relationship of psychology and religion ... hohelped many generations of theological students to understand the workings of the human mind". McKenzie died on 17 May 1963 in

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. He had married Margaret Ann Murray in 1912 and had a son, the comedian

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, and a daughter, Dr Margaret Ross, who married Dr Frederic Laws and was mother to the judge Sir John Grant McKenzie Laws."Laws, Rt Hon. Sir John (Grant McKenzie)"
''Who's Who'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2019). Retrieved 2 March 2020.

References

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