Dugald Macfadyen, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 17… (1911)
“ MACKENNAL, ALEXANDER (1835–1904) , English Nonconformist divine, was born at Truro in Cornwall, on the 14th of January 1835, the son of Patrick Mackennal, a Scot, who had settled in Cornwall. In 1848 the family removed to London, and at sixteen he went to Glasgow University. In 1854 he entered Hackney College to prepare for the Congregational ministry, and in 1857 he graduated B.A. at London University. ”
