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Colin Mackenzie (Scottish writer)
Colin Mackenzie was a nineteenth century literary contributor/hack writer, editor, translator and, for a short period, secretary of the 'National Philanthropic Association,' who lived and worked in London, England. His interests were wide ranging and his publications reflected this. They were primarily works of non-fiction, including educational and informative works on chemistry, cookery, medicine, popular science, geography, history, economics and religion, but he also wrote about the 'gentlemen's clubs' of London, a 'parliamentary pocketbook' with a strong reformist leaning in 1832 (the year of the first Reform Act) and, towards the end of his career, a report on the chronic poverty and famine that raged across Britain and Ireland in the late 1840s.
==Biography==
Mackenzie was born in Edinburgh in 1796. Between 1810 and 1814 he studied for a Master of Arts degree at Kings College, Aberdeen University.〔See "Roll of alumni in arts of the University and King's college of Aberdeen, 1596-1860" Aberdeen University Studies No. I, Roll of Alumni University and King's College 1596-1860, Edited by Peter John Anderson, M.A., LL.B. Librarian to the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, 1900.〕 In 1814 he travelled down from Scotland to London, enrolling at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals in October of that year to train as a surgeon. Mackenzie never completed his studies, but spent the rest of his life in London, writing, editing, translating and contributing to numerous books, journals and pamphlets. A baptismal record from Westminster St James for Mackenzie's eldest son Alfred shows that Mackenzie had married his first wife, Ann, by 1818. Ann died at some point in the 1830s and Mackenzie married again in 1846. A ‘Royal Literary Fund’ file on Colin Mackenzie contains a relatively large amount of primary information about Mackenzie’s life.〔See "Mr Colin Mackenzie," Western Manuscripts, Loan 96 RLF 1/911, 15 Jan 1838 – 14 April 1854,the British Library.〕 The Royal Literary Fund was a charitable organization dedicated to writers in urgent need of financial assistance, which had Dickens and Thackeray as committee members at various points in its existence. Mackenzie applied for, and received financial help from the RLF on five different occasions between 1838 and 1853. Mackenzie died in 1854.
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