Clutha Mackenzie

Sir Clutha Nantes Mackenzie (1895–1966) was (briefly) a Reform Party Member of Parliament.

He won the Auckland East electorate in a 1921 by-election after the resignation of Arthur Myers; but was defeated in the next election in 1922 by John A. Lee.

A son of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, who was High Commissioner in London and was previously a Liberal politician (and Prime Minister in 1912), he enlisted in the Army in World War I. He was blinded at Gallipoli.

He was active in organisations for the blind; he was attached to the UN and was Chairman of the World Braille Council. He was knighted in 1935.

References

• New Zealand Parliamentary Record 1840-1984 by J. O. Wilson (1985, 4th edition, Government Printer, Wellington)
• Obituary in Evening Post, 31 March 1966 page 26.

Further reading

• My Story of St Dunstan's (1961) by Lord Fraser of Lonsdale

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Name	Mackley, Garnet
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Date of birth	1895
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Date of death	1966
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