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The son of Sir George
Stewart Mackenzie, F.R.S., and his wife, Mary McLeod, was born on 21 July
1811. He emigrated to New South Wales before 1830, and afterwards went to
Queensland. He was elected a member of the first Queensland parliament for
Burnet in 1860, and was colonial treasurer in the first cabinet until 4
August 1862. He was colonial secretary in the Macalister (q.v.) ministry
from 1 February to 20 July 1866, and on 15 August 1867 became premier and
colonial treasurer. He resigned on 25 November 1868, and succeeding his
brother on 21 December, became a baronet and returned to Scotland. He died
in London on 19 September 1873. He married in 1846, Louisa Jones of
Sydney, and there was a family of one son and three daughters. Mackenzie
was not a man of great ability, but he was a good organizer and
administrator of some prominence in the early days of Queensland, before
his succeeding to the family estates led to his leaving Australia. |
