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- 1854-1900 (Creation)
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London Missionary Society missionary, Deputy Commissioner of Bechuanaland and advocate of British imperial rule in Africa
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Diaries, personal documents, press clippings, notes and correspondence relating to his work as a missionary in Bechuanaland, Rhodesia and at Hankey in the Cape, and to the politics of Southern Africa, with particular reference to British expansion, the British South Africa Company and Rhodesia and to the Stellaland and Goshen Republics in Bechuanaland.
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A selection from the papers was published as Papers of John Mackenzie, edited A.J. Dachs, Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand Press, 1975.
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The correspondence consists of original letters to Mackenzie and drafts of his replies. The principal correspondents are H.O. Arnold-Foster, Rev. W. Ashton, Sir G.S. Baden-Powell, Sir H. Barkly, Siur G.J. Bower, British South Africa Co., T.F. Buxton, J. Chamberlain, F.W. Chesson, Earl of Derby, Sir B. Frere, W.E. Gladstone, Earl Granville, Earl Grey, Sir H. Rider Haggard, J.D. Hepburn, E. Holub, Sir J.R. Innes, Chief Khama, Viscount Knutsford, Sir W.O. Lanyon, T. Leask, Chief Lobengula, Sir H. Loch, Chief Mankaroane, Chief Massouw, E.A. Maund, Viscount Milner, Chief Montsioa, Rev. J.S. Moffat, Rev. R. Moffat, Chief Moselekatse, C.G. Oates, S. Pinto, Rev. R. Price, F.W. Reid, C.J. Rhodes, Sir H. Robinson, Earl of Rosebery, Rev. J. Ross, F.Y. St. Leger, Marquess of Salisbury, Sir T.C. Scanlen, O. Schreiner, T.L. Schreiner, Chief Sechele, F.C. Selous, S. Solomon, Sir J.G. Sprigg, W.T. Stead, T.M. Thomas, A. Tidman, G.J. van Niekerk, Sir C. Warren, Sir P.E. Wodehouse.