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Keith Henderson (1883-1982) was educated at Marlborough College and studied art at the Slade, and in Paris. Initially Henderson worked principally as a portrait painter moving on to illustration and commercial work. During the First World War he served on the Western Front. After the war he travelled widely, including Africa and South America. He served as an Official War Artist attached to the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He worked in oil and watercolours, designed murals and posters, produced advertising work and wrote and illustrated several books. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Fine Art Society, Royal Watercolour Society and elsewhere. Examples of his work are held in many public collections including those in London, Glasgow, Manchester, Preston and Worthing. He died in South Africa in 1982. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: H-0243
Keith Henderson (1883-1982) wa...
Sir Compton Mackenzie, (1883-1972) was a prolific writer of fiction, biography, histories, and memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur, and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the Scottish National Party. He was born in West Hartlepool, England, into a theatrical family of Mackenzies, but many of whose members used Compton as their stage surname. Compton Mackenzie is perhaps best known for two comedies set in Scotland, the Hebridean Whisky Galore (1947) and the Highland The Monarch of the Glen (1941). He published almost 100 books on different subjects, including ten volumes of autobiography, My Life and Times (1963-1971). He also wrote history, biography, literary criticism, satires, children's stories and poetry. Mackenzie went to great lengths to trace the steps of his ancestors back to his spiritual home in the Highlands, and displayed a deep and tenacious attachment to Gaelic culture throughout his long and very colourful life. He was an ardent Jacobite, the third Governor-General of the Royal Stuart Society, and a co-founder of the Scottish National Party. He was rector of University of Glasgow from 1931 to 1934. Mackenzie built a house on the island of Barra in the 1930s. It was on Barra that he gained much inspiration and found creative solitude. He died in Edinburgh but such was his love of the Scottish Highlands that he is buried in Barra.
Reference: H-0238b
Sir Compton Mackenzie, (1883-1...
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975). From 1910 to 1924 he was a member of the Benedictine brotherhood on Caldey Island, and one of the 20 monks who followed Abbot Aelred Carlyle over to Rome in 1913. Reverting to lay-life at the age of 35 he soon began to make a name for himself as an author-artist. The first of his 36 published books appeared in 1927. He was the co-founder of the Apostleship of the Sea in 1921, and later became a founder member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. In 1974 he was accepted into the community of Nunraw Abbey, East Lothian and died in St. Raphael's Hospital in Edinburgh in July 1975. He is buried at Nunraw.
Reference: 31102g
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-19...
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975). From 1910 to 1924 he was a member of the Benedictine brotherhood on Caldey Island, and one of the 20 monks who followed Abbot Aelred Carlyle over to Rome in 1913. Reverting to lay-life at the age of 35 he soon began to make a name for himself as an author-artist. The first of his 36 published books appeared in 1927. He was the co-founder of the Apostleship of the Sea in 1921, and later became a founder member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. In 1974 he was accepted into the community of Nunraw Abbey, East Lothian and died in St. Raphael's Hospital in Edinburgh in July 1975. He is buried at Nunraw.
Reference: 31102f
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-19...
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975). From 1910 to 1924 he was a member of the Benedictine brotherhood on Caldey Island, and one of the 20 monks who followed Abbot Aelred Carlyle over to Rome in 1913. Reverting to lay-life at the age of 35 he soon began to make a name for himself as an author-artist. The first of his 36 published books appeared in 1927. He was the co-founder of the Apostleship of the Sea in 1921, and later became a founder member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. In 1974 he was accepted into the community of Nunraw Abbey, East Lothian and died in St. Raphael's Hospital in Edinburgh in July 1975. He is buried at Nunraw.
Reference: 31102e
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-19...
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975). From 1910 to 1924 he was a member of the Benedictine brotherhood on Caldey Island, and one of the 20 monks who followed Abbot Aelred Carlyle over to Rome in 1913. Reverting to lay-life at the age of 35 he soon began to make a name for himself as an author-artist. The first of his 36 published books appeared in 1927. He was the co-founder of the Apostleship of the Sea in 1921, and later became a founder member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. In 1974 he was accepted into the community of Nunraw Abbey, East Lothian and died in St. Raphael's Hospital in Edinburgh in July 1975. He is buried at Nunraw.
Reference: 31102d
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-19...
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975). From 1910 to 1924 he was a member of the Benedictine brotherhood on Caldey Island, and one of the 20 monks who followed Abbot Aelred Carlyle over to Rome in 1913. Reverting to lay-life at the age of 35 he soon began to make a name for himself as an author-artist. The first of his 36 published books appeared in 1927. He was the co-founder of the Apostleship of the Sea in 1921, and later became a founder member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. In 1974 he was accepted into the community of Nunraw Abbey, East Lothian and died in St. Raphael's Hospital in Edinburgh in July 1975. He is buried at Nunraw.
Reference: 31102c
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-19...
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975). From 1910 to 1924 he was a member of the Benedictine brotherhood on Caldey Island, and one of the 20 monks who followed Abbot Aelred Carlyle over to Rome in 1913. Reverting to lay-life at the age of 35 he soon began to make a name for himself as an author-artist. The first of his 36 published books appeared in 1927. He was the co-founder of the Apostleship of the Sea in 1921, and later became a founder member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. In 1974 he was accepted into the community of Nunraw Abbey, East Lothian and died in St. Raphael's Hospital in Edinburgh in July 1975. He is buried at Nunraw.
Reference: 31102b
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-19...
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975). From 1910 to 1924 he was a member of the Benedictine brotherhood on Caldey Island, and one of the 20 monks who followed Abbot Aelred Carlyle over to Rome in 1913. Reverting to lay-life at the age of 35 he soon began to make a name for himself as an author-artist. The first of his 36 published books appeared in 1927. He was the co-founder of the Apostleship of the Sea in 1921, and later became a founder member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. In 1974 he was accepted into the community of Nunraw Abbey, East Lothian and died in St. Raphael's Hospital in Edinburgh in July 1975. He is buried at Nunraw.
Reference: 31102a
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-19...
Eric Linklater (1899-1974). Eric Robert Russell Linklater was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels and short stories, military history, and travel books. Linklater moved in 1947 to Pitcalzean House, near Hill of Fearn in Ross-shire. He married Marjorie MacIntyre (1909-1997), an Edinburgh-born, English-educated actress and campaigner for the arts and the environment in June 1933. Linklater died in Aberdeen in November 1974 and was buried at Harray on Mainland, Orkney. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: 31036a
Eric Linklater (1899-1974). Er...
Mary Millicent (May) Fraser, daughter of Alexander and Isabella Fraser of Westwood, Inverness, c1925, by Crooke of Edinburgh. Fraser-Watts Collection.
Reference: hw022
Mary Millicent (May) Fraser, d...
Sir Compton Mackenzie, (1883-1972) was a prolific writer of fiction, biography, histories, and memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur, and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the Scottish National Party. He was born in West Hartlepool, England, into a theatrical family of Mackenzies, but many of whose members used Compton as their stage surname. Compton Mackenzie is perhaps best known for two comedies set in Scotland, the Hebridean Whisky Galore (1947) and the Highland The Monarch of the Glen (1941). He published almost 100 books on different subjects, including ten volumes of autobiography, My Life and Times (1963-1971). He also wrote history, biography, literary criticism, satires, children's stories and poetry. Mackenzie went to great lengths to trace the steps of his ancestors back to his spiritual home in the Highlands, and displayed a deep and tenacious attachment to Gaelic culture throughout his long and very colourful life. He was an ardent Jacobite, the third Governor-General of the Royal Stuart Society, and a co-founder of the Scottish National Party. He was rector of University of Glasgow from 1931 to 1934. Mackenzie built a house on the island of Barra in the 1930s. It was on Barra that he gained much inspiration and found creative solitude. He died in Edinburgh but such was his love of the Scottish Highlands that he is buried in Barra.
Reference: H-0238
Sir Compton Mackenzie, (1883-1...