DC 013
Papers of William James Millar Mackenzie, 1909-1996; political
scientist; Professor of Government, 1966-1970 and Professor of Politics,
1970-1974, University of Glasgow, Scotland
1930-1972
19.4 metres
Glasgow University Archive Services
Mackenzie, William James
Millar (1909-1966: political scientist, Professor of Government, 1966-1970,
Professor of Politics, 1970-1974, University of Glasgow)
English
William James Millar
Mackenzie was born on
8 April 1909 , only son of L
M Mackenzie, WS, Edinburgh. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Balliol
College, Oxford, England and the University of Edinburgh. He was a
distinguished student at Oxford, gaining 1st Classes in Classical Moderations
and Litterae Humanitores; winning the Craven Scholarship (
1928 ) and the Ireland
Scholarship (
1929 ); and sharing the
Jenkyns Exhibition in Classics (
1931 ). He graduated BA in
1931 , going on to take a
Law Degree at the University of Edinburgh, graduating LLB with Distinction in
1933 . He was a Fellow of
Magdalen College, Oxford from
1933-1948 ,
Tutor in Classics,
1933 , and Tutor in
Politics,
1936 . He served with the
Air Ministry in London and Washington from
1939-1944 , and
as Official War Historian with the Special Operations Executive from
1945-1948 . He
was Lecturer in Politics at Oxford from
1948-1949 . From
1949-1965 he was
Professor of Government at the University of Manchester, England, where he was
awarded the Degree of MA (ex-officio). He was appointed to the newly
established Chair of Government at the
University of Glasgow in
1966 . He held that position
until
1970 when he was appointed
the Edward Caird Professor of Politics, the post which he held until his
retirement in
1974 . He was active in
public affairs, and was particularly involved in the solution of constitutional
and administrative problems of developing countries. This included serving as
Special Commissioner for Constitutional Development in Tanganyika,
1952 ; Constitutional
Adviser to the Government of Kenya,
1959 ; and Vice-Chairman of
a Departmental Committee on Training in Public Administration in Overseas
Countries from
1962 . He was also actively
involved in local government, serving on the Royal Commission on Local
Government in Greater London in
1957 , and on a Departmental
Committee on Management in Local Government in
1964 . He was a member of
the Lawrence Committee on MP's Pay from
1963-1964 . He
also served as a co-opted member of the Education Committee of the City of
Manchester. He was author and co-author of authoritative works on government
and politics, including
British Government since 1918
Central Administration in Great Britain
(1957) ,
Free Elections
(1958),
Five Elections in Africa (1959) ,
Politics and Social Science (1967)
. His public service was acknowledged in the award of the CBE in
1963 and in the conferring
of an honorary degree of LLD by the University of Dundee in
1968 , and an honorary DLitt
in 1970 from the University of Lancaster. In
1943 he married Pamela
Muriel Malyon and they had one son and four daughters. He died on 22 August
1996 .
The collection is largely made up of papers relating to the Social
Sciences Research Council, for the period 1960-69. This includes UNESCO Main
Trends in Research in the Social & Human Sciences questionnaires and
returns, material from the Advisory Group on War Studies, the Advisory
Committee for Scientific and Technical Information, the Working Group on
Student Unrest and other SSRC groups and committees. The collection also
contains material on Government and Administration in Africa.
The collection is survey listed.
The papers were stored in Professor MacKenzie's office until his
retirement from Glasgow University in 1974
Deposit : Professor MacKenzie and Department of Politics staff : 1981 :
ACCNs 0298, 0317, 0268, 0180
Appraisal and re-listing to International standards is to be carried out
as resources permit
None expected
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Digital file level list available in searchroom
Manual file level list available at the National Registers of Archives
in Edinburgh (NRA(S)2797) and London (NRA30484)
The collection is original
See source list on Political and Labour History available via the
Glagsow University Archiv Services homepage at
http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk
GB 161 MSS Selborne Correspondence between Professor Mackenzie and the
Third Earl of Selborne 1945-1948 (Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodliean
Library, Oxford )
GB 134 NRA 18162 Letters to Manchester Guardian 1950-1955 (John Rylands
Library, Manchester University)
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Publication note
No known publications using the collection
Date(s) of Description
Compiled by
Moira MacKay , Assistant Archivist, research by
Virginia Russell , Archives Assistant, 22 September
1997
Alterations made by Lesley Richmond, University Archivist, 14 February
2003
Developing countries
Polemology
Political science
Student unrest
UNESCO clubs
University of
Glasgow
Mackenzie William
James Millar 1909-1996
political scientist
Africa
Glasgow (Scotland)