A Naval Biographical Dictionary/McKenzie, Charles
M‘KENZIE. (Lieut., 1799. f-p.,22; h-p., 32.)
Charles M‘Kenzie was born 1 Aug. 1773.
This officer entered the Navy, 23 Aug. 1793, as A.B., on board the Quebec 32, Capt. Josias Rogers, and, after visiting the coast of Holland, accompanied the expedition under Vice- Admiral Sir John Jervis and General Sir Chas. Grey against the French West India islands, where he was wounded in the left shoulder during the landing at Fort Royal, Martinique. On his removal as Midshipman, in April, 1794, to the Vesuvius bomb, Capt. Thos. Rogers, he co-operated in the reduction of Ste. Lucie and Guadeloupe, and then returned with convoy to England. He was next, for a period of nearly two years, employed in the Channel, off the coast of Africa, and again in the West Indies, on board L’Espiègle 16, Capt. Benj. Roberts, and Sheerness 44, Capt. Simon M‘Kenzie; after which we find him, from Sept. 1796 until advanced to his present rank 9 Dec. 1799, commanding, with the rating of Master’s Mate, the Success gun-brig, on the Plymouth station. He joined, on the occasion of his promotion, the Cambridge 80, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Sir Thos. Pasley; and was subsequently appointed – 15 Sept. 1800, to the Pique 36, Capts. Jas. Young and Wm. Cumberland, under the former of whom he assisted at the landing of the troops in Egypt in 1801 – 29 Oct. 1803, nine months after he had left the Pique, to the Malta 80, Capts. Edw. Buller, Wm. Shield, and Robt. Waller Otway, to which ship (with the exception of a short time passed in 1807 with Capt. Shield, as First-Lieutenant, in the Queen 98) he continued attached until Nov. 1808, participating during that period, and receiving a wound, in Sir Robt. Calder’s action – on 16 of the month last-mentioned, as Senior, to the Implacable 74, Capts. Geo. Chas. M‘Kenzie and Thos. Byam Martin, part of the force employed in embarking the army after the battle of Corunna – for a few months in 1814 (he had not been afloat since Dec. 1809), to the Sparrow 16 and Minstrel 26, both commanded by Capt. Fras. Erskine Loch in the Mediterranean, and, 21 Oct. in the same year, to the charge of the San Juan guard-ship at Gibraltar, where he remained until 6 Nov. 1816. Lieut. M‘Kenzie was admitted into Greenwich Hospital 19 Dec. 1844.
He married 22 June, 1826, and has issue two sons and four daughters. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.