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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.
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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...
Mrs Ian Mackenzie, Alderbrae, Tain.
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Mrs Ian Mackenzie, Alderbrae, Tain.
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Mrs Ian Mackenzie, Alderbrae, Tain.
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Mrs Ian Mackenzie, Alderbrae, Tain.
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Mrs Ian Mackenzie, Alderbrae, Tain.
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Lt Ian Mackenzie, Alderbrae, Tain.
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Lt Ian Mackenzie, Alderbrae, Tain.
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Miss Ronald Foster, Yorkshire. Copy for the Hon. Bernard Maxwell, November 1938.
Reference: 31863
Miss Ronald Foster, Yorkshire....
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-1975). From 1910 to 1924 he was a member of the Benedictine brotherhood on Caldey Island, and one of the 20 monks who followed Abbot Aelred Carlyle over to Rome in 1913. Reverting to lay-life at the age of 35 he soon began to make a name for himself as an author-artist. The first of his 36 published books appeared in 1927. He was the co-founder of the Apostleship of the Sea in 1921, and later became a founder member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists. In 1974 he was accepted into the community of Nunraw Abbey, East Lothian and died in St. Raphael's Hospital in Edinburgh in July 1975. He is buried at Nunraw.
Reference: 31102g
Peter Frederick Anson (1889-19...