3-028-259 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Right Rev. Dr. Mackenzie, Suffragan Bishop of Nottingham, 1870. Engraving of a photograph by John Watkins. 'Henry Mackenzie D.D., the new Bishop Suffragan of Nottingham...received his early education at Merchant Taylors' School. His first introduction to public life was through a merchant's counting-house and a Government office; but, being desirous of entering into holy orders, he [proceeded] to Pembroke College, Oxford, where he formed lifelong friendships with the late Bishop of Peterborough, Dr. Jeune, and with the present Bishop of London, Dr. Jackson. In 1834 he took his A.B. degree, with an honorary fourth class. His first curacy was at Wool, Dorset; but, his Rector having died before he was admitted into priest's orders, he accepted an assistant chaplaincy at Rotterdam, and then the curacy of St. Peter's, Walworth, where he was ordained priest by the Archbishop of Canterbury. In 1837 he was elected Head Master of Bancroft's Hospital, and three years afterwards was appointed Perpetual Curate (or Incumbent) of St. James's, Bermondsey. His next removal was, in 1844, to Great Yarmouth, from which he was called up to London, in 1848, by Bishop Blomfield, to occupy the important post of Vicar of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.