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William Mackenzie - 5th of Balmaduthie

Biography


Birth: 1735
Death: 1774

Advocate. Son of John Mackenzie and Rebecca Mackenzie. Married (1763 or 1769) to Maria Lancaster, dau of John Lancaster of Cambridge. They had 6 children. Sometime Commisary of Edinburgh.

Also known as

  • 5th of Balmaduthie

    • Life with James Boswell

    Boswell met him at Kames on October 24, 1762, describing him as "a young gentleman of Inverness-shire, very genteel and well-bred and obliging".

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    William Mackenzie is mentioned in:

  • Journal of my Jaunt, Harvest 1762

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