Shopping Cart
Total : £0.00
Items : 0

View cart
Enter a surname, town name or other keyword to search the database. Remember to allow for the different spellings of 'Mc' and 'Mac.' Good luck!
{Search tips: Use single word search terms for more results}

 

Page 2 of 8 of 89 Records
Scottish Highlands scenery, possibly Strathconon. (Courtesy James S Nairn Colour Collection). ~ *
Reference: jsn046
Scottish Highlands scenery, po...
Scottish Highlands scenery. (Courtesy James S Nairn Colour Collection). ~ *
Reference: jsn004
Scottish Highlands scenery. (C...
Osgood Hanbury Mackenzie (1842-1922) was a Scottish landowner and the creator of a famous garden at Inverewe, near Poolewe in Wester Ross. In 1862, with the help of his mother he purchased the 12,000-acre estate of Inverewe and Kernsary. There he built a Scottish Baronial style mansion and set about creating a garden. Mackenzie concentrated first on establishing shelter belts of Native and Scandinavian pines and built a walled garden. He also created woodland walks. Within 40 years, he had established one of the finest collections in Scotland of temperate plants from both Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Reference: H-0258
Osgood Hanbury Mackenzie (1842...
Benno Schotz (1891-1984) was born in Estonia, but emigrated to Glasgow in 1912, where he gained an engineering diploma from the Royal Technical College. From 1914 to 1923 he worked in the drawing office of John Brown and Co, a Clydebank shipbuilders, while attending evening classes in sculpture at the Glasgow School of Art. Although Schotz is frequently referred to as an Estonian sculptor, all his professional life was in Scotland. He became a naturalized British subject in 1930 and a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy, head of sculpture at the Glasgow School of Art (a post he held from 1938 until his retirement in 1961). He was made a Freeman of the City of Glasgow in 1981 and died in 1984. He is buried in Jerusalem. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: H-0248
Benno Schotz (1891-1984) was b...
Sir Donald Walter Cameron of Lochiel (1876-1951) was a Scottish chieftain, the 25th chief (Lochiel) of Clan Cameron. He was the eldest son of Donald Cameron, 24th Lochiel, and succeeded his father as chief in 1906. That year he married Hermione Emily Graham, daughter of Douglas Graham, 5th Duke of Montrose; the couple would have three sons, including Donald Cameron, 26th Lochiel and Major Allan Cameron, as well as two daughters. Cameron served in the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. He was knighted in 1934, and from 1939 he was the Lord Lieutenant of Inverness-shire. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: H-0247
Sir Donald Walter Cameron of L...
Sir Daniel Macauley Stevenson (1851-1944) was a Scottish politician, businessman and philanthropist, and former Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He made his fortune in the shipbroking and coal exportation industries and whilst on the City Council he was responsible for the Sunday-opening of the City's museums and galleries in 1898, the establishment of free branch libraries in 1899 and the introduction of a municipal telephone service in 1900. He was elected Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1911 until 1914, at which point he was awarded an honorary LL.D. by the University of Glasgow, and was created a Baronet, of Cleveden, Kelvinside, in the County of the City of Glasgow. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: H-0246
Sir Daniel Macauley Stevenson ...
Joe Corrie (1894-1968) was a Scottish miner, poet and playwright best known for his radical, working class plays. He was born in Slamannan, Stirlingshire but his family moved to Cardenden in the Fife coalfield when Corrie was still an infant and he started work at the pits in 1908. Shortly after the First World War, Corrie started writing. His articles, sketches, short stories and poems were published in prominent socialist newspapers and journals. T.S Eliot described him as 'the greatest Scots poet since Burns.' He died in Edinburgh in 1968. Many of Corrie's poems, including 'I Am the Common Man' have been set to music. In 2013, The Joe Corrie Project: Cage Load of Men - a collection of poems set to contemporary and traditional music - was released. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: H-0242
Joe Corrie (1894-1968) was a S...
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...
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...
Sir David Young Cameron (1865-1945). Scottish painter and etcher born in Glasgow. Knighted in 1924 he was a Trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1921 to 1927 and the Scottish National Gallery. He died in Perth in 1945. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: 27366d
Sir David Young Cameron (1865-...
Sir David Young Cameron (1865-1945). Scottish painter and etcher born in Glasgow. Knighted in 1924 he was a Trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1921 to 1927 and the Scottish National Gallery. He died in Perth in 1945.
Reference: 27366c
Sir David Young Cameron (1865-...
Sir David Young Cameron (1865-1945). Scottish painter and etcher born in Glasgow. Knighted in 1924 he was a Trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1921 to 1927 and the Scottish National Gallery. He died in Perth in 1945.
Reference: 27366b
Sir David Young Cameron (1865-...