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| | Alexander Mackay missionary Uganda Africa - Missionary Biographies - Worldwide Missions |
 | | Alexander Murdoch Mackay (1849-1890), missionary, son of Alexander Mackay, LL.D., free church minister of Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, [Scotland], was born in the manse there on 13 Oct. 1849. |
 | | Under Baur's influence the fascination of missionary life, which he had felt in his youth, was revived in him, and determining to go as a missionary to Madagascar, he began to study the Malagasy language. |
 | | In April 1875 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Church Missionary Society's post of lay-superintendent for a settlement of liberated slaves near Mombasa. |
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