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	History of the Mackenzie Family
		The Mackenzies are said to descend from Gillean of the Aird, the 12th century ancestors of the Earl of Ross and by the end of the 13th century they were settled at Eilean Donan
		Sir Alexander MacKenzie who was born in Inverness and emigrated to Canada around 1772 became a fur trader and explorer and made epic journeys to the Arctic and Pacific coasts.
		His namesake, Alexander Mackenzie was born in Dunkeld and emigrated to Canada in 1842 and became the second premier of the Domionion of Canada.
	www.rampantscotland.com /clans/blclanmackenzie.htm (467 words)

	Fay Compton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		British actress Fay Compton came from a notable acting lineage; her father was actor/manager Edward Compton; her mother, Virginia Bateman, was a distinguished member of the profession, as were her sister, the actress Viola Compton, and her uncles and aunts.
		Compton made her first professional appearances in between 1911 and 1913 with The Follies under the leadership of H.G. Pélissier, her future husband.
		Compton's film work is not as well known or as highly regarded as her stage appearances, but she managed to squeeze many solvent screen roles in more than forty movies between 1914 and 1970.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fay_Compton (351 words)

	Compton Mackenzie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie, (1883–1972), was an Scottish novelist.
		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.
		Such was Sir Compton MacKenzie's love of the Scottish Highlands that he is buried in Barra, where he is still very fondly remembered.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Compton_Mackenzie (466 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Mackenzie, Compton
		Mackenzie was one of the last voices to speak from memory of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.
		Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool, and, because his father had already had to travel on to the next engagement, it was up to his mother to register the birth.
		Mackenzie’s personal life was shaken by the death of his father and the discovery that his wife was having a passionate affair.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2857 (2990 words)

	Spying in Greece during World War One \| Samizdata.net
		Mackenzie richly illustrates the maze of espionage, to which he was assigned, with the tragi-comic circumstances of the Vassilaki family (two brothers, three sisters), under suspicion after having back-migrated from the US in an attempt to do well out of the war.
		Mackenzie goes through the year 1916 in 12 chapters, month by month and most of the narration is light relief compared with the nearly lethal ending.
		Mackenzie as man of action is actually quite impressive, witness such acts as his kidnapping the Royalist Colonel/Commandant of Naxos, with the Mayor added in as a bonus and his bluffing the Royalist police force of Syra itself into capture before the arrival of a sea-sick Venizelist contingent from Crete.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/007461.html (3310 words)

	Books \| Whispers galore as author hounded
		Sir Compton Mackenzie, the author of Whisky Galore, was hounded by MI5 for years after revealing embarrassing secrets about the security and intelligence services, documents released today at the national archives reveal.
		According to the MI5 files, Mackenzie was later overheard by an agent at a cocktail party declaring "very emphatically" that "the IRA were doing exactly the right thing in perpetrating their various outrages, and they should continue to do so until they won their demands".
		Mackenzie did indeed get his own back, writing Water on the Brain, a fictional account of the directorate of extraordinary intelligence, MQ99(E), in which C was satirised as N, and Sir Vernon Kell as P. He died in 1972, aged 89.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4674333-103690,00.html (560 words)

	News \| Untitled Personal Files
		MacKenzie settled in Barra in the Outer Hebrides in 1934 and became a committed Scottish nationalist.
		MacKenzie did not take up this offer, and it is clear from the file that the contents of the book (which named in print for the first time several serving and former intelligence officers, including the heads of both the home and overseas services, Cumming and Kell) took the Security Service by surprise.
		MacKenzie makes allegations that he was the subject of Security Service persecution, and there are allegations on the file that he had briefed Aneurin Bevan on Greek affairs for various parliamentary questions put down by Bevan.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /releases/2003/may22/untitled.htm (872 words)

	SLAINTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool on 17th January 1883, the son of an actor, Edward Compton.
		In 1934 Mackenzie built a house called Suidheachan at Northbay on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides and committed himself to the cause of Scottish nationalism.
		In all his novels Mackenzie's fiction is characterised by his ability to produce farcical plots and spirited dialogue.
	www.slainte.org.uk /scotauth/mackcdsw.htm (482 words)

	Capri - Famous visitors
		The celebrities described by Edwin Cerio often reappear in the form of protagonist in the novels of Compton Mackenzie, Norman Douglas and the other authors who resided in Capri and who, it would seem, took inspiration from the island social life when creating their characters.
		The Scottish writer, Compton Mackenzie, is the author of two novels set in the Capri of the 1920’s: “Extraordinary Women” and “Vestal Fire”, in which he describes the life style on the island in the period of his stay there.
		Compton Mackenzie landed on Capri around 1913, with his wife Faith, and stayed there for approximately ten years.
	www.capri.com /en/personaggi (1989 words)

	Mackenzie, Compton -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Compton Mackenzie was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.
		Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie was born on Jan. 17, 1883, in West Hartlepool, …
		Lewis MacKenzie published an account of his career, ‘Peacekeeper: The Road to Sarajevo', in which he recounted his harrowing experiences in 1992 as chief of staff of the United Nations peacekeeping force in former Yugoslavia.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9328757?tocId=9328757 (717 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - Secrets Galore by Compton Mackenzie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mackenzie explained to his potential readers how the Secret Service was "attached to the War Office" although it got its funding from the Foreign Office, and referred to the fact that it had been completely re-organised in 1917 to co-ordinate with the Director of Military Intelligence’s Department.
		Mackenzie apparently retorted that as soon as the war was over he wanted to get back to his "writing job".
		Mackenzie pointed out that he could hardly have been imperilled by the exposure as he had died in 1922.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=574552003 (1078 words)

	Search Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mackenzie, Sir William Mackenzie, Sir William, 1849-1923, Canadian railroad builder and financier, b.
		Mackenzie, Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander, 1822-92, Canadian political leader, b.
		Mackenzie Mackenzie, river, c.1,120 mi (1,800 km) long, issuing from Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada, and flowing generally NW to the Arctic Ocean through a great delta.
	www.encyclopedia.com /search.asp?target=@DOCTITLE+Mackenzie (543 words)

	Compton MacKenzie
		He produced novels and plays which met with critical and commercial success and after the First World War produced several volumes recounting his experiences in the Dardanelles.
		He settled on Barra in 1928 and immersed himself in Scottish life and politics.
		Mackenzie's most significant and popular works were written here including Whisky Galore, Rockets Galore (both of which became successful films), and the six-volume dynastic epic, The Four Winds of Love.
	www.visitscotland.com /library/ComptonMacKenzie (94 words)

	West Highland Free Press Local Newspaper for the Isle of Skye and Western Isles in the Gaelic and English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mackenzie's executors, whoever and wherever they are, should move heaven and earth to have that attribution removed, for the credit runs in one direction only and the discredit travels the opposite way.
		Mackenzie underestimated much of his own work but the point remains: they are not sacred texts, to be translated into other media word-for-word or not at all.
		It is not difficult to judge how Compton Mackenzie might have regarded the television series which is broadcast, in his name, under the title "Monarch of the Glen".
	www.whfp.com /1646/misc.html (1367 words)

	John Culme's Footlight Notes - Celebrity of the Week: Fay Compton (1894-1978), English actress - Week ending 21 ...
		Fay Compton, sister of the novelist Sir Compton Mackenzie, was born into a famous theatrical family in London on 18 September 1894.
		Her parents, Edward Compton (1854-1918) and Virginia Bateman (1855-1940), were both distinguished members of the profession, as were her sisters, uncles and aunts.
		For there is about Fay Compton, when she chooses to reveal it, a certain steely strength, a firmness of will and purpose, which is of the very soul of this High Priestess of ruthless ambition.
	www.gabrielleray.150m.com /ArchiveTextC/FayCompton.html (1753 words)

	Compton Mackenzie, writer
		A Scot by inclination, English-born Compton Mackenzie was regarded as one of the most promising writing talents of his generation.
		It was based on the real-life story of the wartime wrecking of the SS Politician.
		Mackenzie was a founder member of the SNP
	www.visitdunkeld.com /compton-mackenzie.htm (61 words)

	National Gramophonic Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The NGS was founded in England, by Compton MacKenzie in 1923.
		Compton MacKenzie was a famous novelist and prolific writer on many subjects.
		Compton Mackenzie wrote a book called My Life in Music, which contains much information on his involvement with records, The Gramophone, the NGS and the music scene in England during the first half of the century.
	www.tim78rpm.com /NGS.html (221 words)

	Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972), Writer
		Born in West Hartlepool, Cleveland, Mackenzie was educated at St Paul's School and Magdalen College, Oxford.
		His first novel was published in 1911, followed by Carnival (1912) and his semi-autobiographical Sinister Street (1913-14) whose hero is 'handicapped by a public school and university education.' His directorship of the Aegean intelligence service in Syra (Siros) during the First World War is recounted in Extremes Meet (1928).
		By 1933 Mackenzie had established himself on the Scottish island of Barra and become a founder member of the National Party of Scotland (1928).
	www.npg.org.uk /betsie/parser.pl/0004/www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp02890 (185 words)

	Compton, Frank Elbert -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Originally intending to be a lawyer, Compton eventually turned his vision to the creation of an encyclopedia that incorporated pictures alongside the text, not solely on separate plates, thereby…
		Originally intending to be a lawyer, Compton eventually turned his vision to the creation of an encyclopedia that incorporated pictures alongside the text, not solely on separate plates,...
		In his early research on the measurement of radiation, he found that when X rays strike graphite they are scattered and their wavelengths are increased.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9310797?tocId=9310797 (686 words)

	Britmovie - Whisky Galore!
		The story was by Compton Mackenzie, a prolific and imaginative Scottish novelist, and a well-known figure in the islands, where he had a home.
		The Customs and Excise were powerless to prevent the wholesale scavenging that went on and, while it was never discovered how much of the horde was saved from the depths, there was no shortage of the precious amber fluid in the islands for the rest of the war.
		The remote island in Compton Mackenzie's light-hearted, affectionate novel was called Todday, but it was undoubtedly based on Eriskay.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /studios/ealing/filmography/53.html (680 words)

	Mackenzie, Sir Edward Montague Compton (1883-1972). Novelist. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Edward Montague Compton was born in West Hartlepool on 17 January 1883, son of actor Henry Compton in whose surname the birth was entered in the parish register.
		He was known as "Monty" to his friends, and added the family name "Mackenzie" to emphasise his Scottish roots.
		Mackenzie's output also includes the novel series "The Four Winds of Love" (1937-45), regarded by many as his most significant work, and a ten-volume autobiography "My Life and Times" (1963-71).
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~crumey/compton_mackenzie.html (288 words)

	CiaoNapoli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Scottish writer Compton Mackenzie was bound to this place like Axel Munthe, and spent there long periods of his life.
		Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool, Scotland, in 1883.
		Mackenzie wished to build his own villa near Ventroso (Capri) but a great misfortune befell him: some rocks rolled down from the Solaro mountain, destroying all he had built.
	www.ciaonapoli.com /people.php?id=44 (499 words)

	Mack
		For the reviewer, the problem is not with the events Mackenzie relates, but rather his analysis of those events and the selectivity of the topics he addresses.
		This is a reprint of the first volume of Mackenzie's memoirs, covering the pre-World War I period.
		Given access to both personnel and surviving wartime files, Mackenzie’s report was be used by intelligence agencies in a future conflict....
	intellit.muskingum.edu /alpha_folder/M_folder/mack.html (1263 words)

	Scottish Flotsam from the Shetland Islands - People, Famous Scots, Quotes, and Proverbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		After the Second World War he wrote a series of enjoyable and finely observed comedies of Scottish life, the most successful of which was Whisky Galore (1947), a fictional account of the sinking of a ship laden with whisky on the island of Eriskay.
		Mackenzie's later years were dominated by the production of the ten volumes of autobiography, My life and Times (1963-1971).
		By the time of his death much of Mackenzie's earlier work had been largely forgotten but his Scottish novels have retained their appeal and The Four winds of love is rightly regarded as a major contribution to Scottish fiction.
	www.scottishradiance.com /flotsam/flotsam0205.htm (822 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Whisky Galore (Essential.penguin S.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This event, however, never overshadows the human element of the story that is Mackenzie's gift for bringing people to life in a humorous and realistic way.
		It is Mackenzie's concentration on people's relationship with whisky that makes this novel truly unique.
		Despite this, though, I could never find myself really connecting to the characters portrayed in WG- perhaps this would be more a book for the middle-aged and older reader who would have more sympathy for the individuals that populate the novel.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140282718 (432 words)

	Sir Compton Mackenzie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sir Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972) was the author best remembered for his humourous portrayal of the sinking of the SS Politician and the fate of its valuable cargo, in Whisky Galore.
		He was born in Hartlepool but was very proud of his Scottish heritage.
		Named originally Edward Montague Compton - the earlier family name 'Mackenzie' was added later as his emotional links with Scotland grew.
	www.webscot.co.uk /greatscots/comptonmackenzie.htm (220 words)

	Compton, Denis Charles Scott -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		April 23, 1997, Windsor, Berkshire, Eng.), was one of the 20th century's most gifted and audacious batsmen, admired for his mastery of the sweeping stroke and his "cheeky schoolboy" spirit both on and off the field.
		In a first-class career that spanned almost three decades (1936-64), Compton scored 38,942 runs (average, 51.85) and 123 centuries, including 5,807 runs (avg.
		More results on "Compton, Denis Charles Scott" when you join.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9114655?tocId=9114655 (822 words)

	Isola di Capri - Personaggi e dimore: Compton Mackenzie
		Campton Mackanzie was born in Scotland in 1883.
		He then decided to buy a small villa in the plain of Cetrella, where he used to hold his amorous encounters with young boys of the island.
		Still today in the valley one can see, close to the rests of the house destroyed by the time, the two pines that Mackenzie had wanted to plant and a marble tablet in memory of the owners of the villa, now plunged into silence and loneliness.
	www.capridream.com /ing/per-campton.htm (550 words)

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