What is "mackarness"

Mackarness is a surname, and may refer to:

• Charles Mackarness (1850–1918), English footballer and Archdeacon of the East Riding
• Frederick Coleridge Mackarness (1854–1920), British barrister, judge and politician
• George Mackarness (1822–1883), Anglican Bishop of Argyll and The Isles
• John Mackarness (1820–1889), Church of England Bishop of Oxford
• Matilda Anne Mackarness (1826–1881), English childen's novelist