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Football 1st XI 1956-1957. Rear: John Summers, Calum MacIntyre, Alex MacDonald, George Ross, Gordon Menzies, Ian Cullen. Front: Ian Boyde, Ian Nicol, William MacGuire, John Hiller (C), Mr Cunningham, Norman MacLennan, Derek MacRae. (Courtesy Inverness Royal Academy Archive IRAA_001).
Reference: IRAA
Football 1st XI 1956-1957. Rea...
Benno Schotz (1891-1984) was born in Estonia, but emigrated to Glasgow in 1912, where he gained an engineering diploma from the Royal Technical College. From 1914 to 1923 he worked in the drawing office of John Brown and Co, a Clydebank shipbuilders, while attending evening classes in sculpture at the Glasgow School of Art. Although Schotz is frequently referred to as an Estonian sculptor, all his professional life was in Scotland. He became a naturalized British subject in 1930 and a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy, head of sculpture at the Glasgow School of Art (a post he held from 1938 until his retirement in 1961). He was made a Freeman of the City of Glasgow in 1981 and died in 1984. He is buried in Jerusalem. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: H-0248
Benno Schotz (1891-1984) was b...
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 ...
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...
Joe Corrie (1894-1968) was a Scottish miner, poet and playwright best known for his radical, working class plays. He was born in Slamannan, Stirlingshire but his family moved to Cardenden in the Fife coalfield when Corrie was still an infant and he started work at the pits in 1908. Shortly after the First World War, Corrie started writing. His articles, sketches, short stories and poems were published in prominent socialist newspapers and journals. T.S Eliot described him as 'the greatest Scots poet since Burns.' He died in Edinburgh in 1968. Many of Corrie's poems, including 'I Am the Common Man' have been set to music. In 2013, The Joe Corrie Project: Cage Load of Men - a collection of poems set to contemporary and traditional music - was released. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: H-0242
Joe Corrie (1894-1968) was a S...
Clement Richard Attlee (1883-1967). A British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. He was the first person ever to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before going on to lead the Labour Party to a landslide election victory in 1945 and a narrow victory in 1950. He became the first Labour Prime Minister ever to serve a full term, as well as the first to command a Labour majority in Parliament, and remains to date the longest-ever serving Leader of the Labour Party. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: H-0239
Clement Richard Attlee (1883-1...
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...
Marjorie MacIntyre (1909-1997), an Edinburgh-born, English-educated actress and campaigner for the arts and the environment, who married writer Eric Linklater in June 1933.
Reference: 31036f
Marjorie MacIntyre (1909-1997)...
Marjorie MacIntyre (1909-1997), an Edinburgh-born, English-educated actress and campaigner for the arts and the environment, who married writer Eric Linklater in June 1933.
Reference: 31036e
Marjorie MacIntyre (1909-1997)...
Marjorie MacIntyre (1909-1997), an Edinburgh-born, English-educated actress and campaigner for the arts and the environment, who married writer Eric Linklater in June 1933.
Reference: 31036d
Marjorie MacIntyre (1909-1997)...
Marjorie MacIntyre (1909-1997), an Edinburgh-born, English-educated actress and campaigner for the arts and the environment, who married writer Eric Linklater in June 1933.
Reference: 31036c
Marjorie MacIntyre (1909-1997)...
Marjorie MacIntyre (1909-1997), an Edinburgh-born, English-educated actress and campaigner for the arts and the environment, who married writer Eric Linklater in June 1933.
Reference: 31036b
Marjorie MacIntyre (1909-1997)...