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Osgood Hanbury Mackenzie (1842-1922) was a Scottish landowner and the creator of a famous garden at Inverewe, near Poolewe in Wester Ross. In 1862, with the help of his mother he purchased the 12,000-acre estate of Inverewe and Kernsary. There he built a Scottish Baronial style mansion and set about creating a garden. Mackenzie concentrated first on establishing shelter belts of Native and Scandinavian pines and built a walled garden. He also created woodland walks. Within 40 years, he had established one of the finest collections in Scotland of temperate plants from both Northern and Southern hemispheres.
Reference: H-0258
Osgood Hanbury Mackenzie (1842...
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 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...
Keith Henderson (1883-1982) was educated at Marlborough College and studied art at the Slade, and in Paris. Initially Henderson worked principally as a portrait painter moving on to illustration and commercial work. During the First World War he served on the Western Front. After the war he travelled widely, including Africa and South America. He served as an Official War Artist attached to the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He worked in oil and watercolours, designed murals and posters, produced advertising work and wrote and illustrated several books. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Fine Art Society, Royal Watercolour Society and elsewhere. Examples of his work are held in many public collections including those in London, Glasgow, Manchester, Preston and Worthing. He died in South Africa in 1982. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: H-0243
Keith Henderson (1883-1982) wa...
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...
Stewart Carmichael (1867-1950) was born in Dundee, Scotland and was an associate of the Celtic Revivalist and symbolist painters John Duncan (1866-1945) and George Dutch Davidson (1879-1901). Carmichael was a portrait and landscape artist, architect, and decorator. Stewart was educated at Dundee High School and studied art in France and Belgium. He painted many historic subjects, including a great patriotic mural for the Dundee Liberal Club, which featured Wallace and Bruce. Carmichael was on the Board of Governors of the University of Dundee for many years. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: H-0241
Stewart Carmichael (1867-1950)...
Frederick Charles Hannen Swaffer (1879-1962) was a British journalist and drama critic. He joined the Daily Mail in 1902, was editor of Weekly Dispatch and helped develop the Daily Mirror into a popular newspaper. In 1913, he initiated 'Mr Gossip' for the Daily Sketch. He also started 'Mr London' for the Daily Graphic. He was editor of The People, and in 1926 became drama critic of the Daily Express. He joined the Daily Herald in 1931. In the 1930s Swaffer led a spiritualist home circle, following the teachings of the native-American spirit 'Silver Birch,' which were published by A. W. Austen in 1938. Hannen Swaffer was a socialist, but resigned form the Labour Party in 1957. He also became a spiritualist. He is said to have written almost a million words each year. Swaffer appeared in the films 'Death at Broadcasting House' (1934), 'Late Extra' (1935) and 'Spellbound' (1941). He also appeared on The Brains Trust programme. He died in London in 1962. Courtesy John and Aithne Barron.
Reference: H-0240
Frederick Charles Hannen Swaff...
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...