Mackenzie E. C. Walcott
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(Wilhelm) Walcott, Mackenzie Edward Charles (1821–1880), ecclesiologist, born at Walcot, Bath, on 15 December 1821, was the only son of Admiral John Edward Walcott (1790–1868), MP for Christchurch in the four parliaments from 1859 to 1868. His mother was Charlotte Anne (1796–1863), daughter of Colonel John Nelley. Entered at Winchester College in 1837, Walcott matriculated from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1840. He graduated BA in 1844, taking a third class in classics, and proceeded MA in 1847 and BD in 1866. He was ordained deacon in 1844 and priest in 1845. His first curacy was at Enfield, Middlesex (1845–7); he was then curate of St Margaret's, Westminster, from 1847 to 1850, and of St James's, Westminster, from 1850 to 1853. On 20 July 1852 he married Roseanne Elizabeth, second daughter of Major Frederick Brownlow and niece of Lord Lurgan, at St James's Church, Piccadilly. 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 that chapel. In 1863 he was appointed precentor (with the prebend of Oving) of Chichester Cathedral, and held that preferment until his death. Always at work on antiquarian and ecclesiological subjects, he was elected FSA on 10 January 1861. He died on 22 December 1880 at 58 Belgrave Road, London, and was buried in Brompton cemetery. He left no children.
Walcott contributed articles on his favourite topics to numerous magazines and to the transactions of the learned societies, and he was one of the oldest contributors to Notes and Queries. His works mainly comprised historical accounts and guides to the English cathedrals and other ecclesiastical buildings in the British Isles. His account of William of Wykeham and his Colleges (1852) was the first of several works on the early constitutions of ecclesiastical foundations. He contributed to the Revd Henry Thompson's collection Original Ballads (1850) and an article entitled ‘Cathedral reform’ to the Revd Orby Shipley's Church and the World (1866). He presented to the British Museum manuscript materials for a history of cathedrals and conventual foundations in England.
W. P. Courtney, rev. Triona Adams
Sources
Boase, Mod. Eng. biog. · Men of the time (1875) · N&Q, 6th ser., 3 (1881), 20 · P. Barrett, Barchester: English cathedral life in the nineteenth century (1993)
Archives
BL, collections for history of Chichester Cathedral and annals of Exeter College, Add. MSS 30265–30266 · BL, collections relating to church architecture and history, Add. MSS 24632, 24966, 29534, 29540–29542, 29720–29727, 29741–29743, 31362–31382 · S. Antiquaries, Lond., collection relating to St Albans Abbey
Wealth at death
under £25,000: probate, 11 Jan 1881, CGPLA Eng. & Wales
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W. P. Courtney, ‘Walcott, Mackenzie Edward Charles (1821–1880)’, rev. Triona Adams, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://proxy.bostonathenaeum.org:2055/view/article/28431, accessed 24 Oct 2017]
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