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Biography
Kenneth Mackenzie, Lord Fortrose (1717 – 18 October 1761) was a British politician and (by right of his ancestry) Chief of the Highland Clan Mackenzie.
Origins
Mackenzie was the eldest son of William Mackenzie, 5th Earl of Seaforth (died 1740) by his wife Mary, only daughter and heiress of Nicholas Kennet of Coxhow [Coxhoe in Kelloe parish, County Durham]. His father had taken part in the Jacobite rising of 1715 and had forfeited his estates and title under the Act of Attainder of 1716.
Career
Mackenzie supported the Government during the Jacobite rising of 1745. He represented the constituencies of Inverness Burghs between 1741 and 1747, and Ross-shire between 1747 and 1761.
He died in London on 18 October 1761 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Family
Mackenzie married (11 September 1741) Mary, eldest daughter of Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway. She died on 10 April 1751. Their children were:
- Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, who married, first, Lady Caroline Stanhope and, second, Harriet Lamb; he had one child from his first marriage
- Margaret Mackenzie, who married (4 June 1785) William Webb
- Mary Mackenzie (died 29 January 1826), who married Henry Howard and had one child
- Agnes Mackenzie, who married J. Douglas
- Catherine Mackenzie, who married (1 March 1773) Thomas Griffin Tarpley
- Frances Mackenzie, who married Joseph Wall (later hanged for flogging soldiers to death), and had no known children
- Euphemia Mackenzie (died 14 February 1817), who married William Stewart of Castle Stewart and had children
