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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  Mackinnon    
First Name(s)  William    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir, Baronet     
Birth Year  1823    
Death Year  1893    
Entry  Son of Duncan Mackinnon : born March 31, 1823 : educated at Campbeltown : after mercantile work at Glasgow, went to India in 1847, and, with Robert Mackenzie, who was engaged in the coasting trade, established the firm of Mackinnon, Mackenzie, and, in Sep. 1856, the Calcutta and Burma Steam Navigation Co., renamed the British India Steam Navigation Co., in 1862, which has increased and opened out trade from India in all directions, and round its coast : obtained in 1878 from the Sultan of Zanzibar a lease of the territory now called German East Africa, but the British Government refused to sanction it : was Chairman, 1888-93, of the Imperial British East Africa Co., whose territory Government took over in 1895 : he promoted Stanley's expedition for the relief of Emin Pasha, 1886 : founded the East African Scottish Mission, 1891 : C.I.E. in 1882 : Baronet, 1889 : died June 22, 1893.     
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