Robert Campbell MacKenzie

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Robert MacKenzie

Birth name	Robert Campbell MacKenzie
Date of birth	(1856-01-12)12 January 1856
Place of birth	Glasgow, Scotland
Date of death	26 May 1945(1945-05-26) (aged 89)
Place of death	Duntocher, Scotland
Rugby union career
Position(s) Centre Amateur team(s) Years Team Apps (Points) Glasgow Academicals () Provincial / State sides Years Team Apps (Points) 1878 Blues Trial () International career Years Team Apps (Points) 1877-81 Scotland 4 (2 gls, 3 tries)
46th President of the Scottish Rugby Union
In office 1924–1925
Preceded by	Robert Neilson
Succeeded by	Robin Welsh

Colonel Sir Robert Campbell MacKenzie KBE CB (12 January 1856 - 26 May 1945) was a Scottish international rugby union player. He also served in the British Army.

Rugby Union career

Amateur career

He played for Glasgow Academicals.

Provincial career

MacKenzie played for the Blues Trial side in February 1878.

International career

He was capped four times for Scotland between 1877 and 1881, scoring two goals (conversions), three tries, and two drop goals.

Administrative career

He was President of the Scottish Rugby Union for the period 1924 to 1925.

Military career

He was a commander of the Highland Light Infantry.

Outside of rugby and military

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1911. Following the first World War, he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 Birthday Honours.

He died, aged 89, in Duntocher, Dumbartonshire in 1945.