Clutha Mackenzie
Sir Clutha Nantes Mackenzie (11 February 1895 – 30 March 1966) was a New Zealand politician and worker for the blind. He was briefly a Reform Party Member of Parliament.
Biography
| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921–1922 | 20th | Auckland East | Reform | ||
A son of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, who was High Commissioner in London and was previously a Liberal politician (and Prime Minister in 1912), he enlisted in the Army in World War I.[1] He was blinded at Chunak Bair during the Gallipoli campaign and was sent to the No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital at Walton-on-Thames to convalesce.[2]
He was active in organisations for the blind; he was attached to the UN and was Chairman of the World Braille Council. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1935 New Year Honours.[3] Later that year he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[4]
Mackenzie won the Auckland East electorate in a 1921 by-election[5] after the resignation of Arthur Myers,[6] but was defeated in the next election in 1922 by John A. Lee.[7]
Mackenzie died in Auckland in 1966,[8] and his ashes were buried in the Dunedin Northern Cemetery.[9]
Notes
- ^ Brooking, Tom. "Mackenzie, Thomas Noble 1853–1930". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
- ^ Rogers, Anna (2018). With Them Through Hell: New Zealand Medical Services in the First World War. Auckland: Massey University Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-9951001-9-0.
- ^ "No. 34119". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1935. p. 2.
- ^ "Official jubilee medals". The Evening Post. 6 May 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 123.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 128.
- ^ Scholefield 1950, p. 120.
- ^ Hansen, Penelope. "Mackenzie, Clutha Nantes". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ "Cemeteries search". Dunedin City Council. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
References
- Obituary in Evening Post, 31 March 1966 page 26.
- Scholefield, Guy (1950) [First ed. published 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 (3rd ed.). Wellington: Govt. Printer.
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Further reading
- My Story of St Dunstan's (1961) by Lord Fraser of Lonsdale
External links
- Works by Clutha Mackenzie at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Clutha Mackenzie at Internet Archive
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