Mackay John Scobie Mackenzie (23 January 1845 – 15 September 1901), known as Scobie, was an independent conservative Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

Biography

Mackenzie was born in

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in Scotland in 1845. He moved from

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to the

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region in 1870 to manage the Deepdell sheep station on an invitation by Donald McLean and Matthew Holmes. He married Jessy Adela Bell in 1876, the only daughter of

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. He first stood for the House of Representatives in the in the

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electorate and was only narrowly beaten by the incumbent,

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. He represented the Mount Ida electorate from

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1893 Events January * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * January 6 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress; th ...

, when he was defeated for

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. In 1884 he supported the Stout–Vogel Ministry and became the government's

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. However Mackenzie would later leave the Stout-Vogelites in protest of new

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s and the notion of female enfranchisement, joining the opposition conservative MPs. In 1894 he came second in the for . He then represented the multi-member City of Dunedin electorate from

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when he was defeated. Mackenzie died at his home in

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on 15 December 1901, and was buried at

Andersons Bay Cemetery Andersons Bay Cemetery is a major cemetery in the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located to the southeast of the city centre, on a rocky outcrop which forms the inland part of Lawyers Head, a promontory which juts into the Pacific Ocean. ...

References

1845 births 1901 deaths 19th-century New Zealand politicians Burials at Andersons Bay Cemetery Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives New Zealand MPs for Dunedin electorates New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates People from Tain Scottish emigrants to New Zealand Unsuccessful candidates in the 1881 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 1893 New Zealand general election Unsuccessful candidates in the 1899 New Zealand general election {{NewZealand-politician-stub