Donald McKenzie (academic)

Donald Francis McKenzie, FBA (5 June 1931 – 22 March 1999) was a New Zealand bibliographer and literary scholar.

[1] He continued his studies part-time at Victoria University College, Wellington (BA 1954; DipJourn 1955; MA 1957) and briefly taught at the institution, before obtaining a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a PhD in 1961.

[1] Initially he researched the working conditions of printers in the age of Shakespeare under the supervision of Philip Gaskell but abandoned that topic in favour of a study of early printing presses specifically Cambridge's presses.

[1][3][4] He was one of the founders of Downstage Theatre in Wellington and published music scores with composer Douglas Lilburn.

He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1988, and was awarded the gold medal of the Bibliographical Society in 1990.