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Alexander Mackenzie


Born
Gairloch, Wester Ross, Scotland
Died
January 22, 1898

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Alexander Mackenzie (1838 - 1898) was a Scottish writer, historian, politician and magazine editor.

In 1861 Mackenzie became apprenticed in the clothes trade selling Scottish cloth in Colchester. In 1869 he settled in Inverness, where he and his brother set up a clothes shop in Clach na Cudainn House. From his business premises he derived his nickname 'Clach na Cudainn' or simply 'Clach'. He later became an editor and publisher of the Celtic Magazine, and the Scottish Highlander. Mackenzie wrote numerous clan histories. He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and a founder member of the Gaelic Society of Inverness,

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“We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people”
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