Lord Seaforth

Francis Humberston Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth (9 June 1754–11 January 1819) was a British politician and general. June 9 is the 160th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (161st in leap years), with 205 days remaining. ... 1754 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1819 common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

When he was about twelve he suffered from scarlet fever which resulted in his losing his hearing and almost all speech, from this he was known as MacCoinnich Bodhar (Deaf Mackenzie) in Gaelic. He nearly recovered the use of his tongue but during the last two years of his life, mourning the deaths of his four sons, he never made the attempt to articulate. Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...

Military career

In 1784 and again in 1790 he was elected Member of Parliament for the County of Ross. In 1787 he offered to raise a regiment on his own estates to be commanded by himself. The government declined his patriotic offer but accepted his services in procuring recruits for the 74th and 75th. On 19 May 1790 he renewed his offer but the government again declined his services. When war broke out in 1793 he offered for a third time and a letter of service was granted in his favour dated 7 March 1793 empowering him as Lieutenant-Colonel-Commandant to raise a Highland Battalion to be called 78th Highland Regiment, known as "Seaforth's Highlanders". The original Mackenzie regiment had had its number previously reduced to 72nd Regiment of Foot. On 10th February 1794 the government agreed to his proposal to raise a second battalion, the Ross-shire Buffs. The two battalions were amalgamated in 1796. Another battalion was raised in 1804 (letter of service dated 17th April) and these were again amalgamated July 1817. A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters of an electoral district to a parliament; in the Westminster system, specifically to the lower house. ... Ross-shire was a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1832. ... The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albanys) was a historic regiment of the British Army associated with large areas of the northern Highlands of Scotland. ...

In 1798 he was appointed Colonel of the Ross-shire Regiment of Militia. In 1808 he was made a Lieutenant-General.

Non-military apppointments

He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ross and was raised to the peerage of the United Kingdom as Lord Seaforth and Baron Mackenzie of Kintail 26 October 1797. He was Governor of Barbados 1800-06 (during which period he ended slavery and slave killing on the island) after which he held high office in Demerera and Berbice. This page contains a list of Governors-General of Barbados. ... Demerara was one of the original British colonies that was joined into the colony of British Guiana, now Guyana. ... Berbice is the Second largest of the three counties in Guyana and is known as the ancient county. ...

Art supporter

In 1796, he gave £1,000 to Sir Thomas Lawrence to relieve him from his financial difficulties. Lawrence later painted a full-length portrait of Seaforth's daughter, Mary. Lord Seaforth commissioned Benjamin West's painting "King Alexander III of Scotland being rescued from the fury of a stag by the intrepidity of Colin Fitzgerald [1]." Alexander MacKenzie painted by Thomas Lawrence (c. ... Benjamin West Benjamin West (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American Revolution. ...

Quote

‘The last Baron of Kintail, Francis, Lord Seaforth was a nobleman of extraordinary talents, who must have made for himself a lasting reputation had not his political exertions been checked by painful natural infirmities.’ Walter Scott Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a prolific Scottish historical novelist and poet popular throughout Europe during his time. ...

Family

He received his estates from his brother Colonel Thomas Frederick Mackenzie Humberston. He married, 1782, Mary Proby, daughter of The Very Rev Baptist Proby, 7th Dean of Lichfield and Mary Russell. Mary was brother of John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort. Francis's four sons all predeceased him as predicted by the Brahan Seer. His children were: The Brahan Seer, known in his native Scottish Gaelic as Coinneach Odhar. ...

• William Frederick Mackenzie (died young)
• George Leveson Boucherat Mackenzie (died young)
• William Frederick Mackenzie, MP (died 1814)
• Francis John Mackenzie, midshipman, RN (died unmarried 1813)
• Mary Elizabeth Frederica Mackenzie, heiress to her father, (married first Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, married second Rt Hon James Alexander Stewart of Glasserton).
• Frances Catherine Mackenzie, dsp
• Caroline Mackenzie (accidentally killed unmarried)
• Charlotte Elizabeth Mackenzie (died unmarried)
• Augusta Anne Mackenzie (died unmarried)
• Helen Ann Mackenzie (married Joshua Henry Mackenzie)

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References

• Mackenzie, Alexander (1894). History of the Mackenzies. Inverness: A & W Mackenzie.

External links

• Seaforth's Lewis by Finlay MacLeod