John Drew MacKenzie

John Drew MacKenzie (10 April 1861 – 22 July 1918) was a British master craftsman and instructor of the Newlyn Copper school in Cornwall, England.

[1] Mackenzie was born in Shanghai, China,[2][3] and educated at Clifton College.

He arrived in Cornwall in 1888 as a painter and illustrator and in 1890 founded the Newlyn Industrial Class, instructing local people in metalwork, enamelling and embroidery.

MacKenzie died in 1918 but Tom Batten and Johnny Payne Cotton restarted production at the Newlyn school in 1920.

[5] Mackenzie died in the Norfolk War Hospital in Norwich on 22 July 1918, suffering from influenza and pneumonia.