Literary
MACKENZIE
(Sir Compton, 1883-1972, Writer)
Photograph Signed
showing him head and shoulders as a young man, staring intently into the camera, 5½ x 3½, no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1915
Background
Mackenzie was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the National Party of Scotland along with Hugh MacDiarmid, Cunninghame Graham and John MacCormick. He was knighted in the 1952 Birthday Honours List.
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