Henry Poole MacKeen

The Honourable Henry Poole MacKeen SM, CD, QC

23rd Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
In office 1 March 1963 – 22 July 1968
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Governor General	Georges Vanier Roland Michener
Premier	Robert Stanfield G.I. Smith
Preceded by	Edward Chester Plow
Succeeded by	Victor de Bedia Oland
Personal details
Born	(1892-06-17)June 17, 1892 Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
Died	April 20, 1971(1971-04-20) (aged 78) Halifax, Nova Scotia
Nationality	Canadian
Spouse(s)	Alice Richardson Tilley (m. 1928)
Relations	David MacKeen (father)
Children	Judith Tilley MacKeen and Henry David MacKeen
Alma mater	Dalhousie University
Occupation	Lawyer
Profession	Soldier

Henry Poole MacKeen, CD QC (June 17, 1892 – April 20, 1971) was a Canadian lawyer and the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia from 1963 to 1968.

Born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, the son of former Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia David MacKeen, he served during World War I as an artillery officer, reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and was wounded in 1916. After the war, he received his LL.B in 1921 from Dalhousie University. He was a practicing lawyer and served during World War II as the commanding officer of the Halifax Rifles 2nd Battalion from 1945 to 1946. He was also the Honorary Lieutenant Colonel from 1948 to 1960. He helped to defend Kurt Meyer, Canada’s only jailed war criminal. In 1933 he was appointed a King's Council by the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

He was appointed Lieutenant Governor in 1963 and served until 1968. After, he became the first Chancellor of Acadia University.

In 1969, he was awarded the Medal of Service of the Order of Canada,.^[1] The Medal of Service of the Order was converted to the Officer level of the Order of Canada in 1972, however as MacKeen died in 1971 his Medal of Service was never converted to an OC. MacKeen's papers are held by the Nova Scotia Archives.

A portrait of MacKeen by Brenda Bury hangs at Government House Halifax. Another portrait of MacKeen hangs in the Halifax office of law firm Stewart McKelvey which is the successor firm to Stewart MacKeen & Covert where MacKeen practiced law.

In 1928, he married Alice Richardson Tilley, the daughter of Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley. They had two children: Judith Tilley MacKeen and Henry David MacKeen.

References

↑ Order of Canada citation

Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia

Post-Confederation (1867–present)	Williams Doyle Howe Archibald Richey McLelan Daly Jones D. Fraser McGregor MacKeen M. Grant Douglas Tory Stanfield Covert Irwin Mathers Kendall McCurdy A. Fraser Plow MacKeen Oland Gosse Shaffner Abraham Crouse Kinley Freeman Francis J. Grant

Lieutenant-Governors before Confederation (1786–1867)	Parr Bulkeley Wentworth Prévost (Croke) Sherbrooke Smyth Dalhousie Kempt Jeffrey Maitland Jeffrey C. Campbell Falkland Dickson Harvey Bazalgette Le Marchant Phipps Doyle MacDonnell Williams

Lieutenant-Governors of Cape Breton Island (1784–1820)	Desbarres Macarmick Mathews Ogilvie Murray Despard Nepean Swayne Ainslie

Governors before Confederation (1710–86)	Vetch Nicholson Caulfeild Vetch Caulfeild Philipps Doucett Armstrong Cosby Mascarene Cornwallis Hopson Lawrence Ellis Belcher Wilmot W. Campbell Green Francklin Legge Francklin Arbuthnot Hughes Hamond Parr

Lieutenant-Governors who served in the absence of Governors are listed in parentheses. Acting administrators are listed in italics.

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