William Forbes Mackenzie

William Forbes Mackenzie (18 April 1807 – 24 September 1862) was a Scottish Conservative politician and temperance reformer. He is best known for the Forbes MacKenzie Act, legislation passed in 1853 to regulate public houses in Scotland.[1]

  1. ^ H. C. G. Matthew (2004). "Mackenzie, William Forbes (1807–1862)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17605. Retrieved 22 July 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)