James Mackenzie

Most likely the author of The General Grievances and Oppression of the Isles of Orkney and Shetland (Edinburgh, 1750). The short biography in the 1836 edition (Edinburgh: Laing and Forbes) notes that he became a writer in Kirkwall, that his great-grandfather was Murdoch Mackenzie (1600-1688), Bishop of Orkney, and that he was brother to Murdoch Mackenzie (1712-1797), "the celebrated nautical surveyor" (p. ix).