George Richard Mackarness (30 March 1823 – 20 April 1883) was Bishop of Argyll and The Isles in the Scottish Episcopal Church in the last third of the 19th century.
Mackarness was the second son of John Mackarness, a West India merchant of Elstree House, Bath.W. P. Courtney, ‘Mackarness, John Fielder (1820–1889)’, Ellie Clewlow, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 17 July 2013 His older brother John was the Bishop of OxfordCaros from 1870 until 1889.Obituary. Bishop Mackarness The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Sep 17, 1889; pg. 7; Issue 32806 His younger brother Henry was also a vicar. Mackarness Place website, Children and Grandchildren of John Mackarness of Bath
He was educated at Merton College, Oxford and ordained in 1846. He held incumbencies at Ilam, Lochgilphead and Oban.
He served with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, Bodleian Libraries website, Archives and Manuscripts section, Diary of George Richard Mackarness, Vicar of Ashbourne, Derbyshire and contributed to the Hursley Magazine. University of Newcastle website, Centre For 21st Century Humanities section, Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge
He was married to Mary Ann Young, who died on April 15, 1873. Billion Graves website, George Richard MacKarness They had one child, George Evelyn Mackarness.Mackarness Place website, Hambleden Parish Magazine, 1896 Five years later he married Gertrude Granville.
He died on 20 April 1883.Obituary. The Times (London, England), Saturday, Apr 21, 1883; pg. 12; Issue 30800
References
External links Cathedral Guesthouse website, The Cumbrae College Calendar, published 1879 Mackarness Place website, George Richard Mackarness 1823 - 1883; His visits to Ireland and Madeira Mackarness Place website, George Richard Mackarness 1823 - 1883; Notes on his life and on some of his family connections