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Henry Mackenzie
1808–1878
A Church of England bishop remembered for helping revive the office of suffragan bishop after more than two centuries, he spent much of his career serving the church in Nottingham and Lincoln. His story sits at the crossroads of Victorian religion, education, and public life.
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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 Church of England and built a long clerical career that included parish work and important posts connected with Lincoln Cathedral and the Nottingham area.
Mackenzie is best known as the Bishop of Nottingham, serving from 1870 until 1877. He is often noted as the first suffragan bishop appointed in the Church of England since the early seventeenth century, which gives his career a distinctive place in church history.
He died on 15 October 1878. Though not a literary author in the usual sense, he remains a figure of interest for readers drawn to Victorian religious history and the lives of notable churchmen.