| Robert MacKenzie | |||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 12 January 1856 | ||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Glasgow, Scotland | ||||||||||
| Death Place: | Duntocher, Scotland | ||||||||||
| Ru Position: | Centre | ||||||||||
| Ru Provinceyears: | 1877 1878-79 1878 | ||||||||||
| Ru Province: | Glasgow District West of Scotland District Blues Trial | ||||||||||
| Ru Nationalteam: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Ru Nationalyears: | 1877-81 | ||||||||||
| Ru Nationalcaps: | 4 | ||||||||||
| Ru Nationalpoints: | (2 gls, 3 tries) | ||||||||||
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Colonel Sir Robert Campbell MacKenzie (12 January 1856 - 26 May 1945) was a Scottish international rugby union player. He also served in the British Army.[1]
He played for Glasgow Academicals.[2]
He played for Glasgow District against Edinburgh District in December 1877.
He played for West of Scotland District against East of Scotland District in February 1878; and in March 1879.[3]
MacKenzie played for the Blues Trial side in February 1878.[4]
He was capped four times for between 1877 and 1881, scoring two goals (conversions), three tries, and two drop goals.[5]
He was President of the Scottish Rugby Union for the period 1924 to 1925.[6]
He was a commander of the Highland Light Infantry.
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1911. Following the first World War, he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 Birthday Honours.[7]
He died, aged 89, in Duntocher, Dumbartonshire in 1945.