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William Mackenzie
Born 1730  

Son of Kenneth Mackenzie of Assynt and Frances Mackenzie (dau of Alexander Mackenzie of Conansbay). A student from the Scots College at Douai and sometime prior of the Scots monastery, St. James's Abbey, in Würzburg.1

Identified by Boswell only as "Mr. Mackenzie a relation of the Seaforth family who has been a very long time abroad [...] and spoke french like a Parisian". 2

Mackenzie waited on Boswell at Dresden on October 12, 1764, and it is uncertain whether the two ever met more than this one time.

  • 1Sources include
  • 2Journal entry October 12, 1764
Boswell on the Grand Tour I, 1764

Unless otherwise noted, the source for a dated quotation of Boswell's is generally the corresponding volume of the Yale Trade Editions of Boswell's journals.