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Henry Mackenzie
1808–1878
Remembered as an Anglican church leader and religious writer, he played a notable part in reviving the office of suffragan bishop in the Church of England. His career joined parish work, cathedral service, and a steady output of learned Christian writing.
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Essay on the Life and Institutions of Offa, King of Mercia, A.D. 755-794
by Henry Mackenzie
About the author
Born in London on 16 May 1808, Henry Mackenzie was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and later studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was ordained in the 1830s and went on to serve in several church posts, including work in London parishes, a long association with St Paul's Cathedral, and later senior roles in Lincoln.
Mackenzie also wrote religious and historical works. Among them was The Christian Clergy of the First Ten Centuries, first published as his Hulsean Prize essay, showing his interest in early church history and the place of Christianity in European life.
He is best known for becoming Bishop of Nottingham in 1870, a suffragan post in the Diocese of Lincoln. That appointment was historically important because it marked the revival of the suffragan bishopric in the Church of England after more than two and a half centuries. He died on 15 October 1878.