Basil Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Amulree

Basil Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Amulree KBE FRCP (25 July 1900 – 15 December 1983) was a British physician and leading advocate of geriatric medicine in the United Kingdom.

Lord Amulree in 1949

Background and education

Amulree was born at South Kensington, London, England, the son of William Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree and Lilian, daughter of W. H. Bradbury. He was educated at Lancing College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[1]

Career

Upon graduating Amulree joined the Ministry of Health, initially working on the delivery of cancer services, but then on what would become geriatrics. Amulree at the ministry, J. H. Sheldon in Wolverhampton, Marjory Warren, Trevor Howell in Croydon and Oxford's Lionel Cosin were some of the founders of the Medical Society for the Care of the Elderly in 1947. In time, this would become the British Geriatrics Society and Amulree would lead this until 1973.[2]

In 1949 he become physician in charge of the geriatric department at University College Hospital, London. He was governor and president of a number of organisations including the British Geriatrics Society, the Society for the Study of Medical Ethics and the Association of Occupational Therapists.[2]

Amulree succeeded his father in the barony in 1942.[1] He was a Liberal Peer and Whip between 1955 and 1977 and spoke in the House of Lords on a variety of issues in relation to the care of the elderly.[3]

Personal life

Lord Amulree died on 15 December 1983, aged 83, unmarried. The barony became extinct on his death.[1] According to James Lord, around 1948 he was having an affair with the art historian Douglas Cooper; when they parted, Cooper settled with John Richardson.[4]

Arms
Coat of arms of Basil Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Amulree
Crest
A dexter cubit arm charged with a thistle leaved and slipped and grasping in the hand a sword point upwards Proper pommel and hilt Or.
Escutcheon
Azure a stag’s head caboshed Or on a chief Ermine a rose Gules barbed and seeded Proper between two millrinds of the second.
Supporters
On either side an eagle reguardant Proper collared Or that on the dexter holding in the beak a sprig of mountain ash fruit Proper and that on the sinister a sprig of myrtle also fruited Proper.
Motto
I To The Hills [5]

References
  1. "Basil Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Amulree". The Peerage. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  2. "Mackenzie, Basil William Sholto, second Baron Amulree (1900–1983), physician and geriatrician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/55504. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  3. "Mr Basil Mackenzie". Hansard. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  4. James Lord, Picasso and Dora, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993
  5. Burke's Peerage. 1959.
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
William Warrender Mackenzie		 Baron Amulree
1942–1983		 Succeeded by
extinct
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