| Type: | Bishop |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
| George Mackarness | |
| Bishop of Argyll and The Isles | |
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| Church: | Scottish Episcopal Church |
| Diocese: | Argyll and The Isles |
| Term: | 1874-1883 |
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| Predecessor: | Alexander Ewing |
| Successor: | Alexander Chinnery-Haldane |
| Ordination: | 1846 |
| Consecration: | 1874 |
| Birth Date: | 30 March 1823 |
| Buried: | St Peter's churchyard, Ellastone |
| Spouse: | Mary Ann Young, Gertrude Granville |
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George Richard Mackarness (30 March 1823 – 20 April 1883) was Bishop of Argyll and The Isles in the Scottish Episcopal Church[1] in the last third of the 19th century.[2]
Mackarness was the second son of John Mackarness, a West India merchant of Elstree House, Bath.[3] His older brother John was the Bishop of Oxford[4] from 1870 until 1889.[5] His younger brother Henry was also a vicar.[6]
He was educated at Merton College, Oxford and ordained in 1846. He held incumbencies at Ilam, Lochgilphead and Oban.
He served with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel,[7] and contributed to the Hursley Magazine.[8]
He was married to Mary Ann Young, who died on April 15, 1873.[9] They had one child, George Evelyn Mackarness.[10] Five years later he married Gertrude Granville.
He died on 20 April 1883.[11]