Mackrill established a garden and trial ground for crops in Somerset East, occasionally sending herbarium material to the British Museum.
His father-in-law, Peter MacOwan, had been its honorary curator from 1862 to 1869 before moving to Somerset East.
Lord Charles Somerset, taking up the ideas promulgated by Cradock and Caledon that there should be a settlement on the Eastern Frontier, initiated a plan for an experimental farm in the area.
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Sir William Miles, 1st Baronet (1797–1878), English politician, MP for Somerset East 1834–1865