Scobie Mackenzie
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Mackay John Scobie Mackenzie (23 January 1845 – 15 September 1901), known as Scobie, was an independent conservative Member of Parliament in New Zealand.
Biography
Mackenzie was born in Tain in Scotland in 1845. He moved from Victoria to the Otago region in 1870 to manage the Deepdell sheep station on an invitation by Donald McLean and Matthew Holmes. He married Jessy Adela Bell in 1876, the only daughter of Dillon Bell.{{DNZB|Brooking|Tom|2m18|Mackenzie, Mackay John Scobie|23 December 2011}}
He first stood for the House of Representatives in the {{NZ election link|1881}} in the Mount Ida electorate and was only narrowly beaten by the incumbent, Cecil de Lautour. He represented the Mount Ida electorate from 1884 to 1893, when he was defeated for Waihemo.{{cite book |last=Scholefield |first=Guy |author-link=Guy Scholefield |year=1950 |title=New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1949 |edition=3rd |orig-year=First ed. published 1913 |publisher=Govt. Printer |location=Wellington |page=123}}
In 1884 he supported the Stout–Vogel Ministry and became the government's Whip.{{cite news |title=Late Cablegrams |newspaper=Mount Ida Chronicle |volume=XIV |issue=778 |page=3 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MIC18840828.2.14? |access-date=14 April 2017 |date=28 August 1884}}
However Mackenzie would later leave the Stout-Vogelites in protest of new tariffs and the notion of female enfranchisement, joining the opposition conservative MPs. In 1894 he came second in the {{By-election link|Tuapeka|1894}} for {{NZ electorate link|Tuapeka}}.
He then represented the multi-member City of Dunedin electorate from 1896 to 1899 when he was defeated.
Mackenzie died at his home in Dunedin on 15 December 1901, and was buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery.{{cite web |title=Cemetery details |publisher=Dunedin City Council |url=http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries_search?recordid=365&type=Burial |access-date=23 August 2016}}
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Category:19th-century New Zealand politicians
Category:Burials at Andersons Bay Cemetery
Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
Category:New Zealand MPs for Dunedin electorates
Category:New Zealand MPs for South Island electorates
Category:People from Ross and Cromarty
Category:Scottish emigrants to New Zealand
Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1881 New Zealand general election
Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1893 New Zealand general election
Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1899 New Zealand general election
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