IDNO

P.145645.MUS

Description

Etching of "Bishop Mackenzie's Grave - the Cross planted there by Dr. Livingstone. 1863.", showing seven men stanidng around a mound topped with a cross in a forest clearing. [JD 21/07/2020]

Place

S Africa; Malawi; Shire River

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Cowell's Anastatic Press, Ipswich. Printers

Collector / Expedition

Clark, Grahame [for 'Prehistory at Cambridge and Beyond']

Date

Collection Name

Museum Objects and Galleries

Source

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

P.145605.MUS - P.145683.MUS found uncatalogued in a paper and plastic bag in the Paper Archives and transferred by JD 21/11/2019

Letter inside bag from Cambridge University Press to David Phillipson dated 21 November 1989, states "I am returning herewith the photographs you kindly supplied for Grahame Clark's 'Prehistory at Cambridge and Beyond'." [JD 21/11/2019]

Named Person: Charles Frederick Frazier Mackenzie (1825–62) was a Church of England Bishop of Central Africa. Born at Portmore, Peeblesshire, Scotland, the ninth son of Colin Mackenzie and Elizabeth Forbes, he entered St John's College, Cambridge in 1844. He migrated to Caius College, where he graduated B. A. as Second Wrangler in 1848, and became a Fellow of Caius.[2]
Ordained as a priest in 1852, in 1855, he went to Natal with Bishop Colenso and served as Archdeacon of Natal. In 1860, Mackenzie became head of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa and he was consecrated bishop in St George's Cathedral, Cape Town in1861. Following David Livingstone's request to Cambridge, Mackenzie took on the position of the first missionary bishop in Nyasaland (now Malawi).
He directly opposed the slave trade causing the enmity of the Yao. Mackenzie worked among the people of the Manganja country until January 1862 when he went on a supplies trip with a few members of his party. Their medical supplies were lost, Mackenzie’s malaria could not be treated. He died in 1862 on an island in the Shire River. Livingstone erected a cross over his grave a year later. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mackenzie_(bishop), JD 21/07/2020]