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Alexander Mackenzie: Sir Alexander Mackenzie
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Edinburgh-born Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847-1935) was McEwen's predecessor as Principal of the Royal Academy of Music in London. His enormous compositional output is distinguished by its high degree of craftsmanship and flair And if many of his works today appear to be too similar for comfort to those of Sir Edward Elgar, it should be remembered that Mackenzie was the elder of the two composers, and that Elgar was very well aware of the debt that he owed to Mackenzie in terms of his own artistic development.
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Mackenzie had based his campaigns against the Conservatives on the idea of free trade. He ... had attacked the cost of the railway that the Conservatives were building to the Pacific. In 1873 he was given a far more effective weapon. The Pacific Railway scandal came to light just after the election. The Liberals had already discovered that the Canadian company that was building the railway was associated with United States railroad interests. They found that Sir Hugh Allan, the company's promoter, had financed the Conservative election campaign in return for the rights to build the line.
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Mackenzie became leader of the Liberal (formerly Reform) party in 1873. That same year, the Liberals uncovered and released to the press evidence of bribery involving the Conservative party and the contractors engaged in building the government's Pacific Railway. In the ensuing scandal, the Conservatives under Sir John A. Macdonald were forced to resign, and Alexander Mackenzie and the Liberals took over. A general election in January 1874 gave Mackenzie the mandate to govern.
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The violin has always played a significant role in the life of the Scottish composer Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (1847-1935). His father, Alexander Mackenzie (1819-57), was the principal violinist and leader of the band at the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh, and was keen for his eldest son to follow in his footsteps. He arranged for the young Alexander to study music abroad in Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Germany, playing second violin in the ducal orchestra and benefiting from his exposure to some of the most advanced music of the day in the scores of Wagner and Liszt.
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The fur trade made Sir Alexander Mackenzie rich. In 1799, he returned to England to publish a book about his travels. It quickly became a bestseller. On February 27, 1802 Alexander Mackenzie was knighted and became Sir Alexander Mackenzie.
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When, finally, the federal party formally elected Mackenzie its leader in March1873, he was intensely pleased. He had suggested that others– Dorion, Holton, and particularly Blake– were more worthy, and claimed that he sought only the best interests of the party. His self-effacing efforts went for naught. He was chosen leader by a group of peers who, in vesting new authority in him, more firmly defined the party. Whips were appointed [see SirJames David Edgar] and a national political committee was planned, forms of organization that Mackenzie had at one time resisted as vehicles for Holton’s perceived ambitions.
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