| Peter
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| Nationality - Scottish |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 1799
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Date of death - Still with us |
| Place of birth
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Peter Mackenzie was born in 1799 in Dumbarton and educated at the Burgh School.
From the age of 10 he worked in the Dumbarton sheriff clerk's office and in 1814 he was transferred to the Glasgow office, working for Aeneas Morrison, a staunch Reformer.
Whilst working for Morrison, Mackenzie became interested in reform himself. In 1827, after having started up as a writer on his own under the patronage of Grahame of Gartmore and, as a result of the bankruptcy of his patron, for whom he had become security, had his estate sequestrated, Mackenzie decided to turn to promote his political beliefs through journalism.
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In 1831 he started publishing the Loyal Reformers' Gazette, which became the Reformers' Gazette in 1832, and the Glasgow Gazette from 1854 to 1865.
As editor, Mackenzie became known as 'Loyal Peter', and his work led to the exposure of the Glasgow spy Alexander Richmond and the Independent West Middlesex fire and Life Insurance Company fraud.
After retiring from the newspaper business, Mackenzie wrote 'Reminiscences of Glasgow and the West of Scotland'.
Peter Mackenzie died on a visit to London in 1875 and is buried in the Glasgow Necropolis |
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