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Rowed Stroke for the Jesus College 1944 Lent Crew.
Kenneth Gerald Powell Mackenzie (“Gerald”) was born on 8 July 1924. His father was Provost of Lewis and worked in the Harris tweed business. A Shrewsbury schoolboy, Gerald studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, and continued his training in medicine at Guy’s. He was resident medical officer at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and then registrar at the National Heart Hospital. He worked in general practice at Bawtry in Yorkshire and at Probus in Cornwall. He was a keen musician, oarsman, fisherman, and antiquary. A contestant of the Mastermind competition, he was chairman of the Mastermind Contestants Association and set questions for the quiz. He married Doreen Inch, and she with their twins, Alasdair and Victoria, and their daughter, Charlotte, survive him. Known as Jock or Doctor Mac, he died on 30 March 2008, and his ashes are interred with those of his parents in Lewis.