Colin Mackenzie
British interpreter
Colonel Colin Mackenzie CB was Scottish army officer in the British East India Company who later became the first Surveyor General of India. He was a collector of antiquities and an orientalist. Wikipedia
Born: 1754, Stornoway, United Kingdom
Died: May 8, 1821 (age 67 years), Kolkata, India
Books: Mackenzie Collection: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Oriental Manuscripts and Other Articles Illustrative of the Literature, History, Statistics and Antiquities of the South of India, One Thousand Processes in Manufactures and Experiments in Chemistry: Collected from the Best Modern Authorities, British and Foreign, with a View to Promote the Successful Cultivation of All the Useful Arts, Particularly the Manufactures of Great Britain, in Their Different Branches, Catalogue of Manuscripts in European Languages Belonging to the Library of the India Office ...: pt. I. The Orme collection, by S.C. Hill. 1916. pt. II. Minor collections and miscellaneous manuscripts, by the late George Rusby Kaye and Edward Hamilton Johnston. Sect. 1, and more
Resting place: South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta