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Lieutenant General Sir Iven Giffard Mackay, KBE, CMG, DSO & Bar, VD (7 April 1882 – 30 September 1966) was a senior Australian Army officer who served in both world wars.
- 1913–1946
- Lieutenant general
Sir Iven G. Mackay (1882-1966) – one of many donors to the Australian Museum - was involved in some major events of 20th century history. Mackay began his career at the University of Sydney in 1910 as an assistant-lecturer in Physics.
Sir Iven Giffard Mackay (1882-1966), army officer, was born on 7 April 1882 at Grafton, New South Wales, eldest of three children of Isaac Mackay, a Presbyterian minister from Scotland, and his Canadian-born wife Emily Frances, née King.
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In 1947 Mackay obtained 24 traditional musical instruments from the Mikir and Zemi Naga people of what was then the Indian state of Assam. The catalyst for this project was a request by Frederic McCarthy, an anthropologist at the Australian Museum who intended to build a collection of ethnographic musical instruments from different cultures in ...
Iven Mackay had been a Sergeant in the Commonwealth Cadet Corps while he was at Newington College and in 1911 was appointed as a Cadet Corps lieutenant. In July 1913 he was appointed as Militia Adjutant of the 26 th Infantry Battalion (Citizen Forces – equivalent to today’s Australian Army Reserve). 1914.
Iven Giffard Mackay was born in Grafton on 7th April, 1882, the son of Rev. Isaac Mackay of the Free Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia. He was educated at Newington College and was a resident of St Andrew's College while studying for a BA at Sydney University, where he gained a 'blue' for rowing and for football, graduating in 1904.
Cranbrook Centenary. Brigadier Iven G Mackay, Headmaster, 1933–1940. Born in Grafton, NSW, Iven Mackay attended Newington College, Sydney. He graduated in physics and mathematics from the University of Sydney and then became a demonstrator in physics.
