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

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Died.". The Argus (Melbourne: National Library of Australia). 27 September 1852. p. 4.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sweetman, Edward (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 73. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Person Page - 48445". The Peerage.
  4. ↑ "Descendants of Kenneth (I Lord of Kintail) MacKenzie". FamilyTreeMaker.com.
  5. ↑ "Death of the Colonial Treasurer". Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer. 28 September 1852. p. 1S.


New title Treasurer of Victoria
15 July 1851 – 26 September 1852 		Succeeded by
Frederick Powlett