Bryan Mackey

Bryan Mackey (1770–1847) was an English Anglican vicar and the first black Church of England clergyman.{{cite web|url=https://www.findmypast.co.uk/blog/history/black-british-firsts-clergymen|title=short bio of Bryan Mackey first Black British Anglican clergyman|access-date=2 March 2024}}

Mackey was born in 1770 to William Mackey – an English Gentleman – and an unnamed woman from Jamaica.{{cite journal | author=Grace Owen | title=From Grace Owen | journal=Gloucestershire County History Trust Newsletter | url=https://www.history.ac.uk/sites/default/files/file-uploads/2023-02/VCH%20Glos%20Newsletter%2017.pdf | access-date=17 June 2023 }} In 1780, by an act of the Jamaican Assembly, Mackey was granted exemption from inheritance restrictions normally placed on those of African or part-African descent.{{cite web|url=http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/acts.htm|title=Acts of Jamaican Assembly 1760-1810 extracted from material held in the Public Record Office|access-date=2 March 2024}}

He studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he was ordained as deacon in 1793 and was appointed curate at Wootton Rivers, Wiltshire the same year. He was ordained as a priest in 1794. Mackey became rector of Coates, Gloucestershire in 1799. He conducted a wedding in Milton Lilbourne in 1806, and his three children were baptised there, suggesting he held curateship at that parish.{{cite web|url=https://fmg.ac/phocadownload/userupload/scanned-sources/tpg3/pp347-352.pdf|title=Parish records from Milton Lislebon|page=348|access-date= 2 March 2024}}

He was appointed curate of Sapperton, Gloucestershire in 1813.

Mackey died aged 77 in 1847 in Southampton.