Alastair Mackenzie (treasurer)
Alstair Mackenzie (c.1804 – 26 September 1852)[1] was the first Treasurer of Victoria.[2]
Mackenzie was the only[1] son of General John Mackenzie and Lilias Chisholm[3] of Inverness, Scotland.[1] Mackenzie married Wade Ellen Huyler, daughter of George Huyler, in 1839. He gained the rank of Officer in the service of the 90th Light Infantry.[3]
Mackenzie was a magistrate in the Bahamas.[4] Then he went to Melbourne and became the first Treasurer for the Government of Victoria in 1851.[2]
Mackenzie, who was ill for some time, died on Sunday evening 26 September 1852, at nine o'clock, at his residence, Collingwood, Victoria, at the age of forty-eight years.[5]
References
- ^ a b c "Died". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 27 September 1852. p. 4.
- ^ a b Sweetman, Edward (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 73. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
- ^ a b "Person Page - 48445". The Peerage.
- ^ "Descendants of Kenneth (I Lord of Kintail) MacKenzie". FamilyTreeMaker.com.
- ^ "Death of the Colonial Treasurer". Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer. 28 September 1852. p. 1S.