Social Victorians/People/MacKenzie

Also Known As

• Family name: Mackenzie (sometimes MacKenzie or misspelled as Makenzie?)

Kenneth MacKenzie

• Kenneth Robert Henderson Mackenzie (31 October 1833 – 3 July 1886)
• Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie

Alexandrina MacKenzie

• Alexandrina Mackenzie (– March 1908)
• Mrs. Mackenzie
• Mrs. Alexandrina M. A. Mackenzie (Küntz 199)
• Golden Dawn motto: Cryptonyma — "Secret name (of a woman)" (C.); also Magna Est Veritas (M.E.V.) (Alastor; Küntz 199)

Demographics

• Nationality:

Organizations

• Kenneth MacKenzie: Society of Eight (Küntz 200)
• Alexandrina Mackenzie: the Golden Dawn, the Isis-Urania Temple

Timeline

1888 March, Alexandrina Mackenzie was initiated into the Golden Dawn, the Isis-Urania Temple, never made it past the Neophyte grade (Howe 50; Küntz 199). So Outer Order only.

1896, Alexandrina Mackenzie resigned from the Golden Dawn.

Questions and Notes

1. Moina Bergson Mathers wrote the Preface to 4th edition (1926) of MacGregor Mathers's The Kabbalah Unveiled. "Her Preface is the only source of information about Mathers's schooldays":

<quote>As a young man / he came into contact with Kenneth Mackenzie, with whom he had a strong occult link. Kenneth Mackenzie, author of the Encyclopaedia of Masonry, had been a great friend of Bulwer-Lytton.</quote> (quoted in Howe 38-39)

Bibliography

• Howe
• "Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_R._H._Mackenzie (accessed July 2020).
• Küntz