Donald Mackenzie

The Hon. Donald Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie FRSE (22 June 1818 – 19 May 1875) was a Scottish lawyer who served as a Senator of the College of Justice in Edinburgh.

Early life

Donald Mackenzie was born 22 June 1818, the only son of Margaret Robina Jamieson, daughter of the Rev. John Jamieson, DD, author of the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 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 Loretto School and the University of Edinburgh. He originally studied medicine, graduating with an MD at the University of Edinburgh 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.

Mackenzie's Edinburgh Georgian townhouse was at 24 Heriot Row, in the New Town.

In 1870 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh his proposer being his legal colleague, Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves.

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. The couple had 12 children.

Donald Mackenzie (1844-1924), Lilias Oswald Mackenzie, married John Balfour, 1st Baron Kinross, in 1869 Died in 1872 Andrew Mitchell Mackenzie (1847-1885), Stockbroker, Alastair Oswald Morison Mackenzie, K.C. (1858-1949), Sheriff of Inverness, Elgin and Nairn, then later Renfrewshire, and later still Sheriff of Lanarkshire