Alexander Mackenzie, FSA Scot (1838 – 22 January 1898)[1] was a Scottish historian, author, magazine editor and politician. He was born on a croft, in Gairloch. He had little opportunity for education and initially earned his living as a labourer and ploughman.[2] In 1861 he became apprenticed in the clothes trade selling Scottish cloth in Colchester. In 1869 he settled in Inverness, where he and his brother set up a clothes shop in Clach na Cudainn House. From his business premises he derived his nickname 'Clach na Cudainn' or simply 'Clach'.[3] He later became an editor and publisher of the Celtic Magazine, and the Scottish Highlander. Mackenzie wrote numerous clan histories.[4] He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. A founder member of the Gaelic Society of Inverness,[5] Mackenzie was elected an 'Honorary Chieftain' in 1894.[6]
- ^ Mackenzie, Alexander (1898). History of the Munros of Fowlis with genealogies of the principal families of the name: to which are added those of Lexington and New England. Inverness: A. & W. Mackenzie. p. preface.
- ^ Elizabeth Sutherland in Introduction to Alexander Mackenzie, The Prophesies of the Brahan Seer (London : Constable, 2001) 12
- ^ Domhnall Eachann Meek, Mairi Mhór nan Oran (Glaschu: Comann Litreachas Gàidhlig na h-Alba, 1998) 188.
- ^ Ross and Cromarty. CUP Archive. p. 122.
- ^ Introduction to Alexander Mackenzie, The Prophesies of the Brahan Seer (London: Constable, 2001) 12.
- ^ Macdonald, Mairi A. "History of the Gaelic Society of Inverness from 1871 to 1971". gsi.org.uk. Archived from the original on 6 January 2010. Retrieved 30 December 2009.