Mackenzie Walcott


Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott was an English clergyman, known as an ecclesiologist and antiquarian.

Life

Born at Walcot, Bath on 15 December 1821, he was the only son of Admiral John Edward Walcott, M.P. for Christchurch in the four parliaments from 1859 to 1868. His mother was Charlotte Anne, daughter of Colonel John Nelley. Entered at Winchester College in 1837, Walcott matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, on 18 June 1840. He graduated B.A. on 25 May 1844, taking a third class in classics, and proceeded M.A. in 1847 and B.D. in 1866.
Walcott was ordained deacon in 1844 and priest in 1845. His first curacy was at Enfield, Middlesex ; he was then curate of St Margaret's, Westminster, from 1847 to 1850, and of St James's, Westminster, from 1850 to 1853. In 1861 he was domestic chaplain to his relative, Lord Lyons, and assistant minister of Berkeley Chapel, Mayfair, London; and from 1867 to 1870 he held the post of minister at the chapel.
In 1863 Walcott was appointed precentor of Chichester Cathedral, and held that preferment until his death. Always at work on antiquarian and ecclesiological subjects, he was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 10 January 1861.
He died on 22 December 1880 at 58 Belgrave Road, London, and was buried in Brompton cemetery.

Works

Walcott contributed articles to periodicals and to the transactions of learned societies, and he was one of the oldest contributors to Notes and Queries His separate works include:
Walcott contributed to Henry Thompson's collection of Original Ballads, 1850, and to the Rev. Orby Shipley's Church and the World, 1866. He edited in 1865, with additions and notes, Thomas Plume's Account of Bishop Hacket, and published, with William Archibald Scott Robertson in 1872 and 1874, two parts of Parish Church Goods in Kent. Many of his papers on the inventories and registers of ecclesiastical foundations were also issued separately, and he presented manuscripts to the British Museum.

Family

On 20 July 1852, at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, he married Roseanne Elizabeth, second daughter of Major Frederick Brownlow and niece of Charles Brownlow, 1st Baron Lurgan. He left no issue.