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Mr & Mrs Angus MacLeod outside the St. Columba High Church, Bank Street, Inverness, now the CityLife Church.
Reference: 44644c
Mr & Mrs Angus MacLeod out...
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...
Mr Mackenzie, Mackenzie & Munro, Solicitors, 62 Academy St. Inverness.
Reference: 37037d
Mr Mackenzie, Mackenzie & ...
Mr Mackenzie, Mackenzie & Munro, Solicitors, 62 Academy St. Inverness.
Reference: 37037c
Mr Mackenzie, Mackenzie & ...
Mr Mackenzie, Mackenzie & Munro, Solicitors, 62 Academy St. Inverness.
Reference: 37037b
Mr Mackenzie, Mackenzie & ...
Mr Mackenzie, Mackenzie & Munro, Solicitors, 62 Academy St. Inverness.
Reference: 37037a
Mr Mackenzie, Mackenzie & ...
MacFarquhar wedding outside St. Columba High Church, Inverness.
Reference: H-0221d
MacFarquhar wedding outside St...
MacFarquhar wedding outside St. Columba High Church, Inverness.
Reference: H-0221c
MacFarquhar wedding outside St...
MacFarquhar wedding outside St. Columba High Church, Inverness.
Reference: H-0221b
MacFarquhar wedding outside St...
MacFarquhar wedding outside St. Columba High Church, Inverness.
Reference: H-0221a
MacFarquhar wedding outside St...
Nurse Forsyth, St. Margarets.
Reference: 40333
Nurse Forsyth, St. Margarets. ...
Mrs McGrigor-Phillips a.k.a Dorothy Una Ratcliffe (1887-1967). Yorkshire Poet. Born in Brighton of a Yorkshire father, Dorothy moved to Leeds upon her first marriage and began a writing career that lasted from the 1920s to the 1960s, publishing 40 books of poetry, memoirs, character sketches and plays and contributing many articles to the Dalesman and The Yorkshire Post. Her maiden name was Clough. Her first marriage to Charles Ratcliffe (nephew of Edward Allen Brotherton, Lord Brotherton of Wakefield, self-made chemical magnate) ended c.1930 although she retained Ratcliffe as a pen name her whole life. Her second husband was Noel McGrigor-Phillips who died c1942 and with whom she renovated Temple Sowerby Manor (now known as the National Trust property, Acorn Bank in Cumbria). She later married Alfred Charles Vowles in 1947, but refused to change her name, so Alfred changed his to Phillips. She was the youngest ever Lady Mayoress of Leeds (1913-14), officially partnering her widowed father in law. She was a philanthropist and patron of the arts and literature (being responsible for the origination and eventual endowment of the Brotherton collection of early printed books now in Leeds University library). She travelled extensively to Africa, Europe, Iceland and particularly to Greece, but the Second World War and Noel's deteriorating health curtailed foreign travel and directed her to the British Isles. Both with Noel and later with Alfred, a professional photographer from the West Country, she explored Scotland - often in a caravan - and after leaving Temple Sowerby eventually settled in Edinburgh (Anne Street) in the 1950s. She remained there with Alfred for the rest of their married life, and eventually moved to a flat overlooking the sea in North Berwick after Alfred died in the early 1960s. She died in 1967, age 80 with her first novel half-completed. A more complete biography and additional photographs available here: http://www.artisan-harmony.com/durplusbutton.htm
Reference: 42033e
Mrs McGrigor-Phillips a.k.a Do...