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. "Died". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 27 September 1852. p. 4.
  2. Sweetman, Edward (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 73. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  3. "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


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