Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie, (1883–1972), was an Scottish novelist. He wrote the novels The Passionate Elopement in 1911, Carnival in 1912, Sinister Street in 1913/1914, Extremes Meet in 1928, Whisky Galore in 1947, Rockets Galore in 1957 and autobiography My Life and Times between 1963 and 1971. 1883 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Scotland (Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a country in northwest Europe, occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... 1911 is a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Swabian-Alemannic carnival clowns in Wolfach, Germany A carnival parade is a public celebration, combining some elements of a circus and public street party, generally during the Carnival Season. ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Whisky Galore is a well-known 1949 Ealing comedy film, in which a cargo vessel is sunk off a remote Scottish island—with 50,000 cases of whisky aboard. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...

Although not born in Scotland, MacKenzie went to great lengths to retrace 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. As his biographer Andro Linklater commented in the programme, "MacKenzie wasn't born a Scot, and he didn't sound like a Scot. But nevertheless his imagination was truly Scottish."

He served with British Intelligence during World War One. He was Tenant of Herm 1920–1923 and he shares many similarities to the central character in D. H. Lawrence's short story The Man who Loved Islands despite Lawrence saying 'the man is no more he then I am'. Mackenzie at first asked Secker, who published both authors, not to print the story and it was left out of one collection. The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), more commonly known as MI6 (originally Military Intelligence [section] 6), or Her Majestys Secret Service or just the Secret Service, is the British external security agency. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Holders of the post of tenant of Herm. ... This article is about the island. ... 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, certainly one of the most controversial, English writers of the 20th century, who wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. ...

Best known perhaps for his Hebridean comedies "Whisky Galore" and "Monarch of the Glen", Sir Compton MacKenzie published almost a hundred books on different subjects, including ten volumes of autobiography. Of his fiction, "The Four Winds Of Love" is considered to be his magnum opus. It is described by interviewee Dr John MacInnes, (formerly of The School of Scottish Studies), as "one of the greatest works of English literature produced in the twentieth century."

Mackenzie was married three times and aside from his writing also worked as an actor, political activist, and broadcaster.

A co-founder of the Scottish National Party, Mackenzie built a house on the Isle of Barra in Scotland in the 1930s, just one of the islands in Europe where he established a temporary residence. It was on Barra that he gained much inspiration and creative solitude, and where he befriended a great number of people in the community he described as "the aristocrats of democracy". One such friend was John MacPherson, known as "The Coddy". MacPherson's son Neil also took part in the programme, recalling MacKenzie as a man of huge imagination, generosity and talent. In Scotland, the Scottish National Party (SNP) (Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba in Scottish Gaelic) is a centre-left political party which favours Scottish independence. ... Barra (Eilean Bharraigh in Gaelic) is a mostly Roman Catholic island, and the southermost inhabited island of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. ...

Such was Sir Compton MacKenzie's love of the Scottish Highlands that he is buried in Barra, where he is still very fondly remembered. The Scottish Highlands are considered to be the mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. ...

Bibliography

• The Gentleman in Grey (1907)
• The Passionate Elopement (1911)
• Carnival (1912)
• Sinister Street (1914)
• Vestal Fire (1927)
• Extraordinary Women (1928)
• Gallipoli Memories (1929)
• Athenian Memories (1931)
• Greek Memories (1932)
• The Monarch of the Glen (1941)
• The Four Winds of Love (6 volumes 1937-45)
• Whisky Galore! (1947)
• The Rival Monster (1952)
• Rockets Galore (1957)
• Thin Ice (1956)
• My Life and Times (1971)

Monarch of the Glen by Sir Edwin Landseer, 1851 Monarch of the Glen (with a conscious reference to the famous Landseer painting) is a British television drama, produced by Ecosse Films for BBC Scotland and transmitted on the BBC One network in the UK. The series premiered in 2000, and... Whisky Galore! ( 1949) is an Ealing comedy written by Angus MacPhail and Compton MacKenzie, from his novel. ...

External link

• Compton Mackenzie at the Internet Movie Database