 Amy Mackarness died in 1916.Mackarness went in for the law and was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1879.He practised as an advocate of the Cape Supreme Court for some years, was appointed Revising Barrister for Harrow, Middlesex in 1889 and for London in the same year – Revising Barristers were Counsel of not less than three years standing (and from 1873, of not less than seven years' standing) appointed to revise the lists of parliamentary voters.