Charles Mackenzie

Charles Kenneth Mackenzie (1788–1862) was a Scottish diplomat, writer and journalist. Life He was the eldest son of Kenneth Francis Mackenzie, who had plantation interests in the West Indies, and at the time of Fedon's Rebellion acted as president of the council in Grenada; there are sources stating that Charles Mackenzie would have been classified as a Negro in the USA. Colin Mackenzie was his brother. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, where he befriended James Cowles Prichard, and served in the Peninsular War. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815. He then edited a conservative evening paper, Albion. Subsequently, he was a diplomat in Mexico, Haiti and Cuba; in Haiti at least he did intelligence work. Returning to England, he wrote for The Metropolitan Magazine, under the editorship of Cyrus Redding.