Alexander Mackenzie

Sir Alexander Mackenzie, (28 June 1842 – 10 November 1902) was a British colonial official in India, who served as Chief Commissioner of the British Crown Colony of Burma from 1890 to 1895, and as Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal from 1895 to 1898.

Background Mackenzie was born in Dumfries, Scotland, to Reverend John R. Mackenzie and Alexanderina Mackenzie, and as a child moved with his parents to Birmingham, where his father worked for many years.

Family Mackenzie was twice married. His first wife from 1863 was Georgina Louisa Huntly Bremner (born 1838 India, and died 1892 Birmingham), youngest daughter of Colonel Bremner; and after her death he remarried in 1893 Mabel Elizabeth Elliot, youngest daughter of Ralph Elliot (1839–1874) and a granddaughter of Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet. Lady Mackenzie survived him, and married another civil servant, the Hon. Noel Farrer, son of the 1st Baron Farrer. With his second wife, he had two children: Margaret Helen Mackenzie (b1896) Alastair Ian Mackenzie (b1897)