Alstair Mackenzie (c.1804 – 26 September 1852) [1] was the first Treasurer of Victoria. [2]
Alstair Mackenzie was the only [1] son of General John Mackenzie and Lilias Chisholm [3] from Inverness, Scotland. [1] Mackenzie married Wade Ellen Huyler, daughter of George Huyler, in 1839. He gained the rank of Officer in the service of the 90th Light Infantry. [3] Mackenzie was a magistrate in the Bahamas. [4] Then he went to Melbourne and became the first Treasurer for the Government of Victoria in 1851. [2] Mackenzie, who was ill for some time, died on Sunday evening 26 September 1852, at his residence in Collingwood, Victoria, at the age of forty-eight years. [5]