Charles Mackenzie (bishop)
Charles Frederick Mackenzie | |
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| Born | 1825 Portmore, Peeblesshire, Scotland |
| Died | 31 January 1862 Africa |
| Venerated in | Anglican Communion |
| Feast | 31 January |
Charles Frederick Frazier Mackenzie (1825–62) was a
Life
He was born at Portmore,
He was ordained as a priest in 1852 and served as curate of
Moving from Cape Town, Mackenzie sailed with Livingstone up the Zambezi and Shire rivers with a small group, including Horace Waller, to start work. He arrived at Chibisa's village in June 1861 with the goal to establish a mission station at Magomero, near Zomba, while Livingstone continued with his expedition. Mackenzie directly opposed the slave trade causing the enmity of the Yao. He worked among the people of the Manganja country until January 1862 when he went on a supplies trip together with a few members of his party. The boat they were travelling on sank and as their medical supplies were lost, Mackenzie's malaria could not be treated. He died of Blackwater fever on 31 January 1862 on an island in the Shire River, and was buried at Chiromo. Livingstone erected a cross over his grave a year later.
An International school in Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, is named after him.
See also
References
Citations
- ^ Mackenzie 1894.
- ^ "Mackenzie, Charles Frederick (MKNY844CF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Appleton 1863, p. 557.
Sources
- Appletons' annual cyclopaedia and register of important events of the year: 1862. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1863.
- Goodwin, Harvey (1865). Memoir of Bishop Mackenzie (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Deighton, Bell.
- Mackenzie, Alexander (1894). History of the Mackenzies. Inverness.
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Further reading
- Awdry, Frances (1904) [1878]. An Elder Sister: a short sketch of Anne Mackenzie, and her brother the missionary bishop (3rd ed.). London.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Hunt, William (1893). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 35. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Hunt, William; White, Landeg (4 October 2012). "Mackenzie, Charles Frederick (1825-1862)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/49151. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
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