Early Life
Born in Aberdeen on 12 March 1879, AGR was the second son of Marshall Mackenzie, architect and his wife, Phoebe Ann Robertson Cooper. He was educated at Gray's School of Art and Aberdeen University and articled to his father in August 1894.
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