C. Gordon Mackie

C. Gordon Mackie was associated with China and Hong Kong and head of many public utilities companies. He was the head of the two big local firms, Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co., the shipping company and managing director of the Gibb, Livingston & Co., agent for the public utility company Hong Kong Electric Company. He had also been chairman and deputy chairman of the board of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.{{cite news|newspaper=The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser|date=6 April 1934|page=11|title=Advertisements}}{{cite news|newspaper=The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser|date=18 July 1930|page=18|title=Advertisements}}

Mackie was made Justice of the Peace and was elected to the Legislative Council as representative of the Justices of the Peace during the absence of Henry Pollock in May and October 1928.{{cite news|work=The Hongkong Government Gazette|date=8 May 1928|number=265}}{{cite news|work=The Hongkong Government Gazette|date=2 October 1928|number=546}}{{cite news|newspaper=Hong Kong Daily Press|date=5 May 1931|page=7|title=Mr. C. G. S. Mackie}} In 1931, he was nominated to replace J. Owen Hughes as the representative of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce for a four-year-term from 17 May.{{cite news|work=The Hongkong Government Gazette|date=15 May 1931|number=298}} He served on the Legislative Council for six years until he retired and returned to Britain in April 1935. Tribute was paid by Governor William Peel upon his leave.{{cite news|newspaper=Hong Kong Daily Press|date=29 March 1935|page=7|title=Hon. Mr. C.G.S. Mackie}}

He was appointed to the Executive Council on several occasions, in June 1930 and in April 1933 during W. E. L. Shenton's absence,{{cite news|work=The Hongkong Government Gazette|date=6 June 1930|number=339}}{{cite news|work=The Hongkong Government Gazette|date=12 April 1933|number=253}} April 1931 in the place of J. Owen Hughes during Henry Pollock's on leave,{{cite news|work=The Hongkong Government Gazette|date=29 April 1931|number=261}} and again in May 1934 for Henry Pollock.{{cite news|work=The Hongkong Government Gazette|date=10 May 1934|number=373}}

Among others he was also the member of the Authorized Architects' Committee{{cite news|work=The Hongkong Government Gazette|date=3 July 1931|number=403}} and Harbour Advisory Committee.{{cite news|work=The Hongkong Government Gazette|date=4 March 1933|number=148}}

He was the chairman of the Stewards of the Hong Kong Jockey Club.{{cite news|newspaper=The China Mail|date=2 February 1936|page=6|title=Glad to be Back Again}} On his trip to Macao for the Spring Race Meeting of the Macau Jockey Club in March 1932, the ship he toke, Venezia, crashed with Sui Tai which was on its way to Hong Kong near Lantau Island. Mackie and his wife were the survivors in the collision.{{cite news|newspaper=The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser|date=30 March 1932|page=4|title=Passengers Ship Collide}}

His daughter Jean Mackie was a keen lady flier and was the first lady and also first member of the Hong Kong Flying Club to receive a "A" flying certificate in June 1934.{{cite news|newspaper=The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser|date=21 June 1934|page=6|title=Miss Jean Mackie}}

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{{s-bef | before = H. P. White}}

{{s-ttl | title = Chairman of the Hong Kong Jockey Club

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{{s-ttl | title = Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong

| years = 1930}}

{{s-aft | after = William Edward Leonard Shenton}}

{{s-bef | before = John Owen Hughes}}

{{s-ttl | title = Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong

| years = 1931}}

{{s-aft | after = John Owen Hughes}}

{{s-bef | before = William Edward Leonard Shenton}}

{{s-ttl | title = Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong

| years = 1933}}

{{s-aft | after = William Edward Leonard Shenton}}

{{s-bef | before = Henry Edward Pollock}}

{{s-ttl | title = Unofficial Member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong

| years = 1934}}

{{s-aft | after = Henry Edward Pollock}}

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{{s-ttl|title=Chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |years=1931–1932}}

{{s-aft|after=John Johnstone Paterson}}

{{s-bef|before=Thomas Ernest Pearce}}

{{s-ttl|title=Chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation |years=1934–1935}}

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