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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...
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...
Captain Maynard.
Reference: 33028
Captain Maynard. ...
Mr George Ferguson. Copy.
Reference: 31924.5
Mr George Ferguson. Copy. ...
Gascoigne. The Warrant Officers and Sergeants of 4th (Ross & Cromarty) Battalion Seaforth Highlanders TA after mobilisation in 1939. (1954 copy).
Reference: 610b
Gascoigne. The Warrant Officer...
Gascoigne. The Officers of 4th (Ross & Cromarty) Battalion Seaforth Highlanders TA after mobilisation in 1939. (1954 copy).
Reference: 610a
Gascoigne. The Officers of 4th...
Mary Millicent (May) Fraser, in Red Cross uniform. She worked in a convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers at Hedgefield, Inverness, c1917-1918. Submitted by Heather Watts. Fraser-Watts Collection.
Reference: hw018
Mary Millicent (May) Fraser, i...
Lt. Col. Alexander Fraser, 4th Cameron Highlanders, taken outside his home at Westwood, Inverness. Killed at Battle of Festubert, 1915. Fraser-Watts Collection.
Reference: hw017
Lt. Col. Alexander Fraser, 4th...
Alexander Fraser, Westwood, Inverness, solicitor. Fraser-Watts Collection.
Reference: hw005
Alexander Fraser, Westwood, In...
First World War soldiers possibly convalescing at the Gordon Castle hospital, Fochabers c1917. Submitted by Catherine Cowing. #
Reference: cc49
First World War soldiers possi...
First World War soldiers possibly convalescing at the Gordon Castle hospital, Fochabers c1917. Submitted by Catherine Cowing. #
Reference: cc48
First World War soldiers possi...