- Henry Poole MacKeen
Henry Poole MacKeen (
June 17 ,1892 –April 20 ,1971 ) was a Canadian lawyer and the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1963 to 1968.Born in
Glace Bay, Nova Scotia , the son of former Lieutenant Governor of Nova ScotiaDavid MacKeen , he served duringWorld War I as an artillery officer, reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and was wounded in 1916. After the war, he received his LL.B in 1921 fromDalhousie University . He was a practicing lawyer and served duringWorld War II as the commanding officer of the Halifax Rifles 2nd Battalion from 1945 to 1946. He was also the Honorary Lieutenant Colonel from 1948 to 1960. He helped to defend Kurt Meyer, Canada’s only jailed war criminal.He was appointed Lieutenant Governor in 1963 and served until 1968. After, he became the first Chancellor of
Acadia University .In 1969, he was made an Officer of the
Order of Canada .In 1928, he married Alice Richardson Tilley, the daughter of
Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley . They had two children: Judith Tilley MacKeen and Henry David MacKeen.s-ttl|title=
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
years=1963–1968
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