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Football 1st XI 1948-1949. Rear: Leslie Hodge, Prefect Frank Taylor, School Captain Allan Cameron, Alex MacAskill, Angus MacKenzie, William Corbett. Front: Alastair Jamieson, Prefect Roderick J. MacLeod, Roland MacKenzie, Mr Cunningham, Lachlan Russell, Louis Forrai. (Courtesy Inverness Royal Academy Archive IRAA_013).
Reference: IRAA
Football 1st XI 1948-1949. Rea...
Football 1947-1948. (Courtesy Inverness Royal Academy Archive IRAA_017).
Reference: IRAA
Football 1947-1948. (Courtesy ...
Football 1946-1947. (Courtesy Inverness Royal Academy Archive IRAA_022).
Reference: IRAA
Football 1946-1947. (Courtesy ...
Football 1945-1946. (Courtesy Inverness Royal Academy Archive IRAA_026).
Reference: IRAA
Football 1945-1946. (Courtesy ...
Cricket c1946-1947. (Courtesy Inverness Royal Academy Archive IRAA_023).
Reference: IRAA
Cricket c1946-1947. (Courtesy ...
William Malcolm (1858-1949), moved from Watten in Caithness to Inverness in 1896 and lived in Ballifeary Road. As a wheelwright, he worked on the Culloden Viaduct when it was being built (1898), and walked from Inverness to Clava every day. Courtesy Eona Macqueen.
Reference: H-0257
William Malcolm (1858-1949), m...
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 ...
Jane Morrison was born in Lochinver, Assynt, the daughter of Rev. Murdo Morrison and Christina McInnes. She was called up at 17 during the war to do work of national importance and was posted to Inverness. She later volunteered to go to London to relieve the war-weary girls working in the same vocation. Jane spent the remaining war years in London and in 1947 she won Miss Scotland. Jane took up modelling afterwards and walked the catwalks of London, Paris and New York. She married Walter Landauer, the Viennese pianist (1910-1983) who performed with Marjan Rawicz, and accompanied them on their world tours of Australia, South Africa and America. Jane later re-married a French doctor and has spent the last sixty years living between London and Paris. This portrait was taken by Hector G.N. Paterson and is courtesy of Aithne and John Barron. Bio info is courtesy of Jane. (HGNP)
Reference: H-0245
Jane Morrison was born in Loch...
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...
Stewart Ross, Grampian Records. Inverness singer and songwriter born in Merkinch in 1929. A well known performer from the 1960s-1980s, signed with Grampian Records in February 1965, about the time this portrait was taken. He wrote 'My Bonnie Maureen' which sold over 350,000 copies for Daniel O'Donnell. He also contributed lyrics to Calum Kennedy's famous recording of 'The Dark Island.' The Am Baile website have published a radio interview with him from 1988 and the songs he wrote are now more widely available via YouTube and MP3 download. 'The Dark Island', sung by Daniel O' Donnell, was in the top thirty of the album charts at the end of 2018. Stewart Ross died in 1993. (Information kindly provided by his son, Alan Ross).
Reference: 47135b
Stewart Ross, Grampian Records...
Stewart Ross, Grampian Records. Inverness singer and songwriter born in Merkinch in 1929. A well known performer from the 1960s-1980s, signed with Grampian Records in February 1965, about the time this portrait was taken. He wrote 'My Bonnie Maureen' which sold over 350,000 copies for Daniel O'Donnell. He also contributed lyrics to Calum Kennedy's famous recording of 'The Dark Island.' The Am Baile website have published a radio interview with him from 1988 and the songs he wrote are now more widely available via YouTube and MP3 download. 'The Dark Island', sung by Daniel O' Donnell, was in the top thirty of the album charts at the end of 2018. Stewart Ross died in 1993. (Information kindly provided by his son, Alan Ross).
Reference: 47135a
Stewart Ross, Grampian Records...