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Authorised form of nameMcKenzie; Murdoch (1712 - 1797)
Other forms of surnameMackenzie
Dates1712 - 1797
NationalityBritish
Place of birthOrkney
Date of birth1712
Place of deathMinehead, Somerset
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
16 October 1797
ActivityCareer:
Surveyed Orkney and Shetland for the Admiralty and HEIC; surveyor to the Admiralty (until 1771); surveyed the North coast of Ireland and west coast of Scotland with compass, publishing the results in 'Nautical description of the west coast of Great Britain from Bristol Channel to Cape Wrath' (1776)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election19/05/1774
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; date and place of birth courtesy of Mike de Smith
References:
Averil M Lysaght, 'Joseph Banks at Skara Brae and Stennis, Orkney, 1772' in NR 1973-4 vol 28 pp 221-234
T E Allibone, 'The Club of the Royal College of Physicians, the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers and their Relationship to the Royal Society Club' in NR 1967 vol 22 pp 186-192
Raymond Phineas Stearns, 'Fellows of the Royal Society in North Africa and the Levant, 1662-1800' in NR 1954-55 vol 11 pp 75-90
Notes:
DNB gives burial date as 16 Oct 1797, (source: vicar of Minehead). DNB and Bulloch state that he withdrew from the Society in 1796.
CodeNA2195
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1774/07McKenzie, Murdoch: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MS/391/161Bond of Murdoch Mackenzie to the Treasurer of the Royal Society9 June 1774
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