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Taught/practised on:
OSGOOD MACKENZIE OF INVEREWE
(R4x32)
Michael Block (Newbury)
1- 8
1s+2s dance RH across & 3s+4s dance LH across, 1L also 3M (followed
by their partners) chase clockwise to change ends
9-16
3s+2s dance RH across & 1s+4s dance LH across, 1s & 3s chase ½ way
to end in line up/down centre with 1L & 3M facing in middle
17-24
1s+3s dance reel of 4 with 1L+3M starting by passing LSh, ending in
original places
25-32
1s cast to 4
th
place as others step up, 2s & 3s turn RH as 4s & 1s turn
LH
Osgood Hanbury Mackenzie was born on 13 May 1842 at the Chateau de Talhouet, in Morbihan, Brittany, son of Sir
Francis Mackenzie, 5
th
Baronet and 12
th
Laird of Gairloch and Mary, daughter of Osgood Hanbury, of Holfield
Grange, Essex.
Mackenzie's father died a year or so after he was born and he was brought up to speak both English and Gaelic
whilst educated at home. In 1862, with the help of his mother, he purchased the 12,000-acre estate of Inverewe
and Kernsary, near Poolewe in Wester Ross. There he built a Scottish Baronial style mansion and set about
creating a garden. Within 40 years, he had established one of the finest collections in Scotland of temperate
plants from both Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Mackenzie had one child, Mary (Mairi) Thyra, and his marriage broke down while his daughter was still young.
He died on 15 April 1922 bequeathing Inverewe to his daughter. Following the death of her second husband, and
being without any children, she gave the garden to the National Trust for Scotland in 1952, together with an
endowment for its future upkeep.
