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Miss J. Thompson, St. Aiden's Street, Bensham, Gateshead-on-Tyne.
Reference: 25391c
Miss J. Thompson, St. Aiden...
Miss J. Thompson, St. Aiden's Street, Bensham, Gateshead-on-Tyne.
Reference: 25391b
Miss J. Thompson, St. Aiden...
Miss J. Thompson, St. Aiden's Street, Bensham, Gateshead-on-Tyne.
Reference: 25391a
Miss J. Thompson, St. Aiden...
Lachlan MacDonald, North Uist.
Reference: 47794b
Lachlan MacDonald, North Uist....
Lachlan MacDonald, North Uist.
Reference: 47794a
Lachlan MacDonald, North Uist....
Mr Hunter, tobacconist.
Reference: 35917.5
Mr Hunter, tobacconist. ...
Sir Michael William Selby Bruce, 11th Baronet, born Ensenada, Lower California on 27th March 1894 was an author and adventurer. Succeded his father, Sir William Waller Bruce, in 1912. Michael Bruce entered Abingdon School, then joined the British South Africa Police as a trooper in 1913. After First World War service with the Royal Artillery at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, Bruce became a traveller, largely in Africa and South America, and an author and newspaper columnist. Had a distinguished military career and made propaganda films during Second World War then returned to the Royal Air Force, serving in a barrage balloon unit, with 901 (County of London) squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment. Later in the war he was Senior Weapons Instructor for glider pilots at Bridgnorth. Had several publications including 'Songs From the Saddle,' 'Hunter's Yarns,' 'The Royal House of Bruce' and 'Tramp Royal.' He was the elder brother of actor Nigel Bruce and died at Vancouver, British Columbia on 20th May 1957.
Reference: 43759b
Sir Michael William Selby Bruc...
Sir Michael William Selby Bruce, 11th Baronet, born Ensenada, Lower California on 27th March 1894 was an author and adventurer. Succeded his father, Sir William Waller Bruce, in 1912. Michael Bruce entered Abingdon School, then joined the British South Africa Police as a trooper in 1913. After First World War service with the Royal Artillery at Gallipoli and on the Western Front, Bruce became a traveller, largely in Africa and South America, and an author and newspaper columnist. Had a distinguished military career and made propaganda films during Second World War then returned to the Royal Air Force, serving in a barrage balloon unit, with 901 (County of London) squadron, Royal Air Force Regiment. Later in the war he was Senior Weapons Instructor for glider pilots at Bridgnorth. Had several publications including 'Songs From the Saddle,' 'Hunter's Yarns,' 'The Royal House of Bruce' and 'Tramp Royal.' He was the elder brother of actor Nigel Bruce and died at Vancouver, British Columbia on 20th May 1957.
Reference: 43759a
Sir Michael William Selby Bruc...
Clementine Ogilvy Hozier (1885-1977). On 12th September 1908, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, she married seasoned Parliamentarian Winston Churchill. In 1946 she was appointed a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, becoming Dame Clementine Churchill GBE. Later, she was awarded honorary degrees by the University of Glasgow and the University of Oxford and later, in 1976, by the University of Bristol. In May 1965, she was created a life peer as Baroness Spencer-Churchill of Chartwell in the County of Kent. She sat as a cross-bencher, but her growing deafness precluded her taking a regular part in parliamentary life. She died in Princes Gate, Knightsbridge, London of a heart attack in 1977. She was 92 years old and had outlived her husband by almost 13 years. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: H-0244
Clementine Ogilvy Hozier (1885...
Frederick Charles Hannen Swaffer (1879-1962) was a British journalist and drama critic. He joined the Daily Mail in 1902, was editor of Weekly Dispatch and helped develop the Daily Mirror into a popular newspaper. In 1913, he initiated 'Mr Gossip' for the Daily Sketch. He also started 'Mr London' for the Daily Graphic. He was editor of The People, and in 1926 became drama critic of the Daily Express. He joined the Daily Herald in 1931. In the 1930s Swaffer led a spiritualist home circle, following the teachings of the native-American spirit 'Silver Birch,' which were published by A. W. Austen in 1938. Hannen Swaffer was a socialist, but resigned form the Labour Party in 1957. He also became a spiritualist. He is said to have written almost a million words each year. Swaffer appeared in the films 'Death at Broadcasting House' (1934), 'Late Extra' (1935) and 'Spellbound' (1941). He also appeared on The Brains Trust programme. He died in London in 1962. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: H-0240
Frederick Charles Hannen Swaff...
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...