Richard Mackie

Sir Richard Mackie KONS COCI (1851 – 1923) was a 19th-century Scottish businessman involved in ship brokerage and coal exporter who served as Provost of Leith from 1899 to 1908.

At an early age he joined a firm of shipbrokers in Leith which in 1873 was renamed Mackie, Koth & Co. and he became sole proprietor.

[5] In 1891 he was living at Clarebank House on Claremont Road in Leith and was operating a steamship company based at 56 Bernard Street.

His grave lies close to the main entrance path to the north-west.

He was promoted to Captain, won the Military Cross but was killed in August 1916 on the Somme.