Reverend Mr. Colin Mackenzie of Glack

REVEREND MR. COLIN MACKENZIE

Minister of the Gospel at Fodderty

Biographical Summary

"Colin Mackenzie of Glack, born 1707, son of Roderick M. of Brae and Longcroft, chamberlain of the Lewis, and a daugh. of William Munro of Ardullie ; educated at King's College, Aberdeen ; M.A. (1728) ; licen. by Presb. of Dalkeith 7th Nov. 1733 ; pres. by George, Earl of Cromartie, 31st July 1734; ord. (after a reference to the Assembly) 28th Aug. 1735 ; app. chaplain to 73rd Regiment, or Macleod's Highlanders, 13th June 1778 ; died 8th March 1801. He inherited the Castle of Dingwall, the seat of the Earls of Ross, and the lands attached thereto, through his mother, which, with Longcroft, he sold, and purchased the estate of Glack in Aberdeenshire in 1765. He was instrumental in keeping his chief. Lord Fortrose, from going out in 1745. He was the first to recognise the medicinal properties of the Strathpeflfer mineral springs. He marr

(1) Margaret (died 22nd Sept. 1746), daugh. of Hugh Rose of Clava, and had issue —

• Margaret, died 22nd Sept. 1748

(2) 23rd Feb. 1754, Mary (died 9th Feb. 1828, aged 91), daugh. of Donald Mackenzie, Balnabeen, and had issue —

• Anne, born 19th May 1756 (marr. Hector Mackenzie, bailie, Dingwall)
• Una, born 26th June 1758
• Isobel, born 24th Sept. 1759 (marr. (1) her father's coachman, (2) John Gray of Drumallan)
• Roderick of Glack, born 9th Feb. 1761, died 1842
• Johanna, born 15th June 1762 (marr. Dr Miller, Stornoway)
• Mary, born 19th March 1764 (marr. Captain John Mackenzie of Kincraig)
• John, born 4th Nov, 1765, died 8th Oct. 1787
• Beatrice, born 13th May 1767 (marr. Peter Hay, bailie, Dingwall)
• Donald, min. of this parish
• Forbes, major Ross-shire Militia, and a noted agriculturist (whose daugh. marr. John Kennedy, D.D., Dingwall), born 29th Dec. 1769
• Jean, born 28th Nov. 1771 (marr. Colin Mackenzie, min. of Stornoway)."

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. VII, page 37