Paul MacKenzie (physician)
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Percy Arthur Paul Peter MacKenzie (31 July 1919 – 16 September 2014) was a Scottish physician, soldier and sportsman. He was a pioneer of modern sports medicine. He was the founder of the Glenshee Ski Rescue Service and joint founder of the British Association of Sports Medicine.


Life

He was born on 31 July 1919 the son of Major Lionel do Amaral MacKenzie and his wife Mary Isobel (née Rusk). His father was born in
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, the son of Peter Alexander Cameron Mackenzie, and his Brazilian wife Anita (née do Amaral). Lionel died in 1927 aged 36 from an accidental insulin overdose in treatment of his diabetes. MacKenzie was educated at
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and then joined the British Army in 1938. He saw active service in the
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as an officer in the
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serving under Lord Mountbatten in
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at the rank of captain. After the war he studied medicine at the
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, qualifying at the age of 33, going on to be a GP at
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in Perthshire. He lived at
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. A keen skier from the age of ten he skied regularly at
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in
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staying with his friend, the Olympic skier Othmar Schneider. As an archer he won 27 trophies. He was also a keen golfer. He died on 16 September 2014 aged 95, and was buried with his parents in the western extension to
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in south Edinburgh.


Family

He married Barbara Jean Ashmead-Barlett at St Giles Cathedral in
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in 1956. They had a daughter, Fiona, and a son, Ruari.


Positions of Note

*Member of the
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(the Queen's bodyguard in Scotland) *Fellow of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine *Member and Medical Advisor to
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References

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