Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Campbell, composer, born at Edinburgh; studied in Germany and at the Royal Academy; was teacher and conductor in his native city from 1865 to 1878, lived thereafter in Italy; was made Principal of the Royal Academy of Music in 1887, and knighted in 1895; his opera “Colomba” (1883) first brought him fame; among his works, which are of every kind, his oratorio, “The Rose of Sharon” (1884), is reckoned best; (b. 1847).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Mackay, Charles * Mackenzie, Sir George