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In 1776 Mackenzie married Penuel, daughter of Sir Ludovic Grant of Grant. They had eleven children. He was in later years a notable figure in Edinburgh society, nicknamed the Man of Feeling, but in fact a hard-headed man of affairs with a kindly heart. Some of his literary reminiscences appeared in
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A clergyman from Bath named Eccles claimed authorship of the book, supporting his pretensions with a manuscript full of changes and erasures. Mackenzie's name was then officially announced, but Eccles appears to have convinced some people. In 1773 Mackenzie published a second novel,
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of the North. While remembered mostly as an author, his main income came from legal roles, which led in 1804–1831 to a lucrative post as Comptroller of Taxes for Scotland, whose possession allowing him to follow his interest in writing.
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based on a "historical connection", but appears absurd, as it never featured among Mackenzie's official addresses. It may therefore have been home to a namesake and so listed under false pretences.
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Henry Mackenzie died on 14 January 1831 at his Georgian townhouse at 6 Heriot Row. He is buried in Greyfriars Kirkyard, in a grave facing north in the centre of the north retaining wall.
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of Redhall), who was attorney for the crown in the management of exchequer business. Inglis had his Edinburgh office on Niddry Wynd, off the
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MacKenzie was a Scottish Freemason initiated into Lodge Canongate Kilwinning, No. 2, (Edinburgh, Scotland), on 2 December 1784.
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History of the Lodge Canongate Kilwinning, No. 2, compiled from the records 1677–1888 by Alan MacKenzie, 1888. p. 243.
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Mackenzie had tried for several years to interest publishers in what would become his first and most famous work,
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family. Mackenzie's own family descended from the ancient Barons of Kintail through the Mackenzies of Inverlael.
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were published surreptitiously, and he then himself superintended the publication of his
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Mackenzie, Alexander (1894). History of the Mackenzies. Inverness: A & W Mackenzie.
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Harris, Bob. "Scotland's Newspapers, the French Revolution and Domestic Radicalism (
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002
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affixed by Sir Walter Scott to an edition of Mackenzie's novels in Ballantyne's
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on 26 July 1745. His father, Dr Joshua Mackenzie, was a distinguished Edinburgh
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under the pseudonym "Brutus". Most remained anonymous, but he acknowledged his
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Monuments and monumental inscriptions in Scotland, The Grampian Society, 1871.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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and Howard Haycraft, New York, the H. W. Wilson Company, 1952.
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Mackenzie's contributions to these two periodicals appear in
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Review of the Principal Proceedings of the Parliament of 1784
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Review of the Principal Proceedings of the Parliament of 1784
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is known as "Henry MacKenzie's Cottage". The building was
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Mackenzie's 1776 marriage to Penuel Grant, daughter of
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were read. This led to the establishment of the weekly
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British Authors Before 1800: A Biographical Dictionary
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He had two daughters, Margaret and Hope. His nephew,
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Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1775–1776.
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People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh
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Account of the Life and Writings of John Home, Esq.
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Henry Mackenzie (bishop)
Henry McKenzie

Henry Raeburn
Edinburgh
Scotland
Scottish
FRSE
Addison
Edinburgh
physician
Nairnshire
High School
University of Edinburgh
John Alexander Inglis
Royal Mile

Samuel Joseph
legal studies
attorney
The Man of Feeling
Sterne
Richardson
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
epistolary novel
The Spectator
Robert Burns
Royal Society of Edinburgh
Tory

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