Obituary Dr George Owen Mackie
Please read an obituary penned by George's children on the Legacy.com website.
We have also received some words from George's son, Richard, including this excerpt from George's memoirs describing how he made the transition from Blundell’s to St. Johns College, Oxford:
"With good marks in Physics, which was well taught at Blundell’s by “Slug” Chanter, I could still have got into medicine but had set my mind against this. The senior tutor at St Johns, W.C. Costin suggested a walk around the garden. He must have been used to helping clueless young men decide what degree they were going to read for. It is a big garden and the walk took 20 minutes. By the time we got back to the Canterbury Quadrangle, where Costin had his rooms, it had been decided that I would read zoology with William Holmes, a Fellow of the college, as my tutor."
I also know that my dad went to Blundell’s because his mother happened to share a train compartment with the headmaster! His older brother had been to Marlborough, and his cousin to Eton, but the headmaster made such an impression that my dad – who was known as Owen Mackie until his national service – went to Blundell’s instead.