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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...
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 ...
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, 'Glenard,' 101 Kenneth Street, Inverness.
Reference: 44819n
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, '...
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, 'Glenard,' 101 Kenneth Street, Inverness.
Reference: 44819m
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, '...
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, 'Glenard,' 101 Kenneth Street, Inverness.
Reference: 44819l
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, '...
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, 'Glenard,' 101 Kenneth Street, Inverness.
Reference: 44819k
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, '...
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, 'Glenard,' 101 Kenneth Street, Inverness.
Reference: 44819j
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, '...
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, 'Glenard,' 101 Kenneth Street, Inverness.
Reference: 44819i
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, '...
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, 'Glenard,' 101 Kenneth Street, Inverness.
Reference: 44819h
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, '...
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, 'Glenard,' 101 Kenneth Street, Inverness.
Reference: 44819g
Miss Margaret Wilkinson, '...