Clutha Mackenzie
Sir Clutha Nantes Mackenzie (11 February 1895 – 30 March 1966) was a New Zealand politician and worker for the blind. He was briefly a Reform Party Member of Parliament.
Biography
[edit | edit source]| Years | Term | Electorate | Party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921–1922 | 20th | Auckland East | Reform | ||
Mackenzie was born in Balclutha in 1895. He was the youngest child of Sir Thomas Mackenzie,[1] who was High Commissioner in London and was previously a Liberal politician (and Prime Minister in 1912). Mackenzie Jr. enlisted in the Army in World War I.[2] He was blinded at Chunuk Bair during the Gallipoli campaign and was sent to the No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital at Walton-on-Thames to convalesce.[3] At the hospital he was one of the patients of his sister Mary, who was a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment here.[4] After recovering he was sent to the live with other blind soldiers in a house in Portland before attending St Dunstan's, the Institute for the Blind Soldiers and Sailors.[4] At the institute he learnt Braille as well as how to type.
Mackenzie won the Auckland East electorate in a 1921 by-election[5] after the resignation of Arthur Myers,[6] but was defeated in the next election in 1922 by John A. Lee.[7]
Mackenzie was active in organisations for the blind; he was attached to the UN and was Chairman of the World Braille Council. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 1935 New Year Honours.[8] Later that year he was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[9] In 1953, Mackenzie was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.[10]
Mackenzie died in Auckland in 1966,[1] and his ashes were buried in the Dunedin Northern Cemetery.[11]
Notes
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References
[edit | edit source]- Obituary in Evening Post, 31 March 1966 page 26.
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Further reading
[edit | edit source]- My Story of St Dunstan's (1961) by Lord Fraser of Lonsdale
External links
[edit | edit source]- Works by Clutha Mackenzie at Project Gutenberg
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- 1895 births
- 1966 deaths
- Blind politicians
- New Zealand blind people
- People educated at Otago Boys' High School
- New Zealand Knights Bachelor
- New Zealand military personnel of World War I
- New Zealand politicians with disabilities
- Reform Party (New Zealand) MPs
- Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives
- New Zealand MPs for Auckland electorates
- Unsuccessful candidates in the 1922 New Zealand general election
- Unsuccessful candidates in the 1919 New Zealand general election
- Burials at Dunedin Northern Cemetery
- Children of prime ministers of New Zealand