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Inverness Royal Academy Prefects 1944-1945. Rear: Sheila Urquhart, Donald Campbell, Wilma MacDonald. Middle: Thomas Forrester, Evelyn Cameron, Allan Cook, Norma MacDougall, William Cattell, Muriel Riggs, Angus MacLeod. Front: Hamish Gray (VC from 03.01.1945), Christina Fraser (VC from 17.04.1945), Rector D.J MacDonald, May Murray, James Nairn (VC to Dec 1944, C from 03.01.1945) (Courtesy Inverness Royal Academy Archive IRAA_042).
Reference: IRAA
Inverness Royal Academy Prefec...
The first Prefects at the Inverness Royal Academy, appointed in May 1944 by the then new Rector D.J MacDonald. Rear: Andrew MacLaren, John Hill, Deverell Neill, James McPhee. Middle: Allan Cook, Evelyn Cameron, Eiona Moir, Irene Stewart, Marjory MacVinish, Simon MacMillan. Front: Mary Wylie, Callum MacAulay (C), Rector D.J MacDonald, Margaret Stewart (VC), James Cattell (VC), Isobel Mackay. (Prefect Jas Jackson left half-way through the term, replaced by Andrew MacLaren.) (Courtesy Inverness Royal Academy Archive IRAA_043).
Reference: IRAA
The first Prefects at the Inve...
The Inverness Royal Academy War Memorial Hostel, June 1924. The hostel opened in 1922, with accommodation for about 60 girls. In the centre of the second-front row is the first matron, Miss Isabella Paterson. The hostel was partly funded by contributions from the Old Boys' Club, led by Evan Barron, a well-known former pupil. The building first used was the former Inverness Collegiate School building in Ardross Street, which is now the oldest part of the Highland Council Headquarters buildings. The hostel was moved to Hedgefield House in Culduthel Road in 1934. (Courtesy Inverness Royal Academy Archive IRAA_058).
Reference: IRAA
The Inverness Royal Academy Wa...
Alice Grant in 1957. She was a member of the Inverness Royal Academy staff from 1915 to 1956, becoming head of the Primary School, until it started to be phased out from 1956. She died 30.07.1957. (Courtesy Inverness Royal Academy Archive IRAA_040).
Reference: IRAA
Alice Grant in 1957. She was a...
Charles Granville Barry Greaves (1900-1982) in 1920. Inverness Royal Academy Dux June 1918; First for Sandhurst, second for Woolwich. Joined Royal Engineers 1920; 2nd Lieutenant; Carried out railway survey work with Herbert and Murray in Tanganyika in 1930; Adjutant, Territorial Army 1933-1936; Officer for Technical Duties 1936-1939; World War II 1939-1945; Director of Movements, War Office 1949-1953; retired Major General in 1953. His father was Charles Greaves, teacher of commercial subjects and later of science at the Inverness Royal Academy, who retired from teaching in 1930. (Courtesy Inverness Royal Academy Archive IRAA_039).
Reference: IRAA
Charles Granville Barry Greave...
Chief Constable Fraser. Biographical information kindly provided by Dave Conner.
Reference: 41486b
Chief Constable Fraser. Biogra...
Chief Constable William Fraser MM KPM OBE, a native of Lochbroom, was appointed to the post of Chief Constable of Inverness-shire with effect from 1st December 1936. He succeeded Major A.C. Maclean who had held the post since 1911. Mr Fraser was aged 39 years at the time of his appointment, and transferred from the Dunbartonshire Constabulary where he had served since 23rd December 1919. Prior to joining the Police, Mr Fraser had served in the Seaforth Highlanders from 1913 to 1919 and had been awarded the Military Medal. During his almost 15 years in command of the Inverness-shire constabulary, Chief Constable Fraser was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in January 1944, and the King's Police Medal (KPM) in 1950. He retired on pension from the Inverness-shire force on 17 August 1951. Biographical information kindly provided by Dave Conner.
Reference: 41486a
Chief Constable William Fraser...
Miss Grauweiler, Fort George.
Reference: 336g
Miss Grauweiler, Fort George....
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...
The Duchess of Sutherland (1867-1955) walking down Academy Street, Inverness in 1936. Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower was a British society hostess, social reformer, author, editor, journalist and playwright, often using the pen name Erskine Gower. Her first husband was Cromartie Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 4th Duke of Sutherland. By her two later marriages, she was known as Lady Millicent Fitzgerald and Lady Millicent Hawes, the latter of which was the name she used at the time of her death. She lived mostly in France through the 1920s and 1930s, and also travelled. She was living near Angers in 1940, and was captured after the German occupation of France. She escaped via Spain and Portugal to the United States, and returned to Paris in 1945. She died in Orriule in south-west France and was cremated in Paris, her ashes being interred at the Sutherland private cemetery at Dunrobin Castle. She was survived by her eldest son, George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 5th Duke of Sutherland.
Reference: H-0229
The Duchess of Sutherland (186...
Rose - Miller wedding outside Inverness Cathedral. Pat Miller served with the Cameron Highlanders during the First World War, and was present at Dunkirk in the Second. He attained the rank of brigadier and won the MC and DSO. He married Milly Rose c1930 and after the Second World War they merged their surnames to be known as Rose-Miller. Copy dates from 1971.
Reference: 48131
Rose - Miller wedding outside ...
Preece.
Reference: 47881j
Preece....