BOWELL, SIR MACKENZIE Canadian politician, was born at Rickinghall, England, Dec. 27 1823, and died at Belleville, Ontario, Dec. II 1917. In 1833 he moved with his family to Belleville, Canada, where he finally became editor and proprietor of the Intelligencer.
Mackenzie was a member of the Macdonald and Thompson cabinets (1878-91), prime minister of Canada (1894-96), leader of the Conservative Party in the Senate and presi dent of the Colonial Conference at Ottawa (1894). He received the K.C.M.G. in 1895.