Rev. Dr. Thomas (delivered Mackenzie's eulogy) – "stood four square, to all the winds that blow.” (Buckingham and Ross 1892, p. 643, Tennyson's Ode to the Death of the Duke of Wellington) (Alexander Mackenzie)

Rev. Dr. Thomas (delivered Mackenzie's eulogy) – "stood four square, to all the winds that blow.” (Buckingham and Ross 1892, p. 643, Tennyson's Ode to the Death of the Duke of Wellington)

Alexander Mackenzie

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