John MacKenzie (doctor)
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John MacKenzie was a Scottish army surgeon. He was a native of Ayrshire, where he married Helen Miller, one of the "Six proper Mauchline belles" who is buried in Irvine's Old Parish church. He was a m
Doctor John MacKenzie
Dr MacKenzie's house in Mauchline
Memorial to Helen Miller, John MacKenzie's wife.
Robert burns
Richard Brown (captain)
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Richard Brown or Ritchie Broun in Scots was born in Irvine. He was a sea captain and a one time friend of Robert Burns who is credited by Burns as the being the person who "encouraged me to endeavour
John MacKenzie (doctor)
…that one Douglas Grahame was the individual upon whom Tam was modelled. Dr MacKenzie was a member of the Masonic Lodge Irvine Saint Andrew Number 149. Richard Brown was also a member. Strawhorn records that Dr.McKenzie purchased the small estate of Lochwards near the Town Mills on the Annick Water…
The plaque from the Drukken Steps cairn
A Sunday in Eglinton Woods.
Robert Burns by Alexander Nasmyth, 1787
The cairn commemorating the association of Richard Brown and Robert Burns in Irvine.