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Name: MACKAY, Malcolm MA (Rev.)
Birth Date: 10.5.1873 Shepton Mallet
Death Date: 15.2.1953 Lingfield
First Date: 1900
Profession: Priest with UMCA, later Archdeacon of Magila and Canon of Zanzibar
Area: Zanzibar
Book Reference: Gillett, North, EA & Rhodesia, Red 22, North
School: Lancing College, Keble College Oxford & Cuddesdon Theological College
General Information:
East Africa & Rhodesia - 26/3/53 - The Rev. Canon Malcolm Mackay, who has died in Lingfield at the age of 80, was ordained in 1896 and joined the Universities Mission to Central Africa four years later, arriving in Zanzibar in the same year. For 17 years he worked in Zanzibar and Pemba, where he was archdeacon from 1913 to 1917, he was then transferred to Magila, Tanganyika, becoming archdeacon in 1921. He remained in that appointment until 1944. He was domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Zanzibar from 1908 to 1924.