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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Mackenzie    
First Name(s)  Holt    
Birth Year  1787    
Death Year  1876    
Entry  I.C.S. : son of Henry Mackenzie, the wit, essayist, and man of letters : born 1787 : educated at Haileybury, 1806-7 : arrived in India in 1808, in the E.I. Co.'s Civil Service : was, in 1817, Secretary to Government in the Territorial Department : Member, 1820 ; President, 1825, of the Council of the College of Fort William: is best remembered for his work as a settlement officer, and for his connexion with the great Settlement Regulation, VII of 1822, which embodied his views and was said to have "" immortalized the name of its framer"": in 1826 he was Secretary to the Governor-General on tour to the Upper Provinces : he returned to England in 1831, and was made a Privy Councillor and Commissioner of the Board of Control, 1832-4 : Vice-President of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1847 : died March 31, 1876     
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