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27 & 28 September 2016

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Lot

№ 1303

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28 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£1,500

A Baronial Scroll appointing Sir William Warrender Mackenzie, G.B.E., a Baron of the United Kingdom as Baron Amulree of Strathbraan in the County of Perth, dated 22 July 1929, fully illuminated on vellum and appended with fully intact large wax seal depicting H.M. King George V on the Coronation Throne on one side, and in the uniform of an Admiral of the Fleet standing on the fore deck of a Battleship on the other, the scroll secured by English legal green silk ribbons, the seal in embossed red leather case, and the whole contained in a similarly fitted red leather case, lock on case forced and broken, otherwise about extremely fine £800-1200

William Warrender Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree was born on 19 August 1860 and educated at Perth Academy, Edinburgh University, and University College London. Called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1886, he became a King's Counsel in 1914. Appointed C.B.E. in 1917, whilst Chairman of the Committee of Production, he was advanced to K.B.E. the following year and subsequently held numerous Chairmanships on a wide range of Government Committees and Tribunals. Advanced to G.B.E. in 1926, he subsequently led Britain’s Industrial Delegation to Canada and the United States of America, 1926-27. Raised to the peerage as Baron Amulree, of Strathbraan in the County of Perth, on 22 July 1929, he was appointed Secretary of State for Air in Ramsay MacDonald's second Labour government in October 1930, with a seat in the cabinet, and was sworn into the Privy Council at the same time. He was one of the few Labour politicians to follow MacDonald into the National Government, where he retained his post until the reconstruction of the government after the November 1931 general election. Lord Amulree died on 5 May 1942, and was succeeded by his only son, the Hon. Basil Mackenzie, the noted physicist, as 2nd Lord Amulree; the barony became extinct upon the latter’s death in 1983.