Charles Kenneth Mackenzie (1788–1862) was a Scottish diplomat, writer and journalist.
He was the eldest son of Kenneth Francis Mackenzie, [1] who had plantation interests in the West Indies, and at the time of Fedon's Rebellion acted as president of the council in Grenada; [2] there are sources stating that Charles Mackenzie would have been classified as a Negro in the USA. [3] Colin Mackenzie was his brother.
He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he befriended James Cowles Prichard, [1] and served in the Peninsular War. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815. [4] He then edited a conservative evening paper, Albion. [1]
Subsequently, he was a diplomat in Mexico, Haiti and Cuba; [4] in Haiti at least he did intelligence work. [5] Returning to England, he wrote for The Metropolitan Magazine, under the editorship of Cyrus Redding. [1]
During the latter part of his life he lived mostly in the United States, where he died on 6 July 1862 at a fire at the Rainbow Hotel on Beekman Street [6] in New York City. [4]
Mackenzie collected plants for August Grisebach and William Jackson Hooker. [4]
Mackenzie published Notes on Haiti in two volumes (1830), based on his period 1826–7 as British consul there, and including both economic statistics and social observations. [7] Parts were republished shortly by John Brown Russwurm, to publicise the Haitian Revolution. [8]
Mackenzie wrote also for the Edinburgh Review, Quarterly Review, and Encyclopædia Britannica. [9]
Charles Kenneth Mackenzie (1788–1862) was a Scottish diplomat, writer and journalist.
He was the eldest son of Kenneth Francis Mackenzie, [1] who had plantation interests in the West Indies, and at the time of Fedon's Rebellion acted as president of the council in Grenada; [2] there are sources stating that Charles Mackenzie would have been classified as a Negro in the USA. [3] Colin Mackenzie was his brother.
He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he befriended James Cowles Prichard, [1] and served in the Peninsular War. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815. [4] He then edited a conservative evening paper, Albion. [1]
Subsequently, he was a diplomat in Mexico, Haiti and Cuba; [4] in Haiti at least he did intelligence work. [5] Returning to England, he wrote for The Metropolitan Magazine, under the editorship of Cyrus Redding. [1]
During the latter part of his life he lived mostly in the United States, where he died on 6 July 1862 at a fire at the Rainbow Hotel on Beekman Street [6] in New York City. [4]
Mackenzie collected plants for August Grisebach and William Jackson Hooker. [4]
Mackenzie published Notes on Haiti in two volumes (1830), based on his period 1826–7 as British consul there, and including both economic statistics and social observations. [7] Parts were republished shortly by John Brown Russwurm, to publicise the Haitian Revolution. [8]
Mackenzie wrote also for the Edinburgh Review, Quarterly Review, and Encyclopædia Britannica. [9]