Kenneth Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baron Muir Mackenzie
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Kenneth Augustus Muir Mackenzie, 1st Baron Muir Mackenzie, , civil servant, and politician.
Background and education
Muir Mackenzie was a younger son of Sir John Muir Mackenzie, 2nd Baronet, and Sophia Matilda, daughter of James Raymond Johnstone, of Alva, Clackmannanshire. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1873 he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn.
Career
Muir Mackenzie was
Family
Lord Muir-Mackenzie married Amelia, daughter of William Graham, MP, in 1874. They had one son and three daughters, one of them the violinist Dorothea Frances Muir Mackenzie(1881-1971), universally known as "Dolly", who studied with Eugène Ysaÿe and who in 1907 married the pianist Mark Hambourg.[6] His wife died in 1900 and his only son William in 1901, aged 25 and unmarried. Muir-Mackenzie died at his home in Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park, London, in May 1930, aged 84, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.[7] As he had no surviving male issue the barony became extinct on his death.
He is buried in Westminster Abbey.[8]
See also
- Muir Mackenzie Baronets
References
- ^ "No. 26460". The London Gazette. 21 November 1893. p. 6553.
- ^ "No. 26974". The London Gazette. 3 June 1898. p. 3446.
- ^ "No. 28505". The London Gazette. 16 June 1911. p. 4592.
- ^ "No. 29210". The London Gazette. 29 June 1915. p. 6266.
- ^ "No. 32910". The London Gazette. 22 February 1924. p. 1549.
- ^ Koch, Eric. Otto and Daria: A Wartime Journey Through No Man's Land (2016), p. 5
- ^ The Complete Peerage, Volume XIII – Peerage Creations, 1901-1938. St Catherine's Press. 1949. p. 204.
- ^ "Kenneth Muir Mackenzie". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 23 February 2023.