He published almost a hundred books on different subjects, including ten volumes of autobiography: My Life and Times (1963–71). They were the sources of a successful film and a television series respectively. Mackenzie is perhaps best known for two comic novels set in Scotland: Whisky Galore (1947) set in the Hebrides, and The Monarch of the Glen (1941) set in the Scottish Highlands. He was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Magdalen College, Oxford, from where he graduated with a degree in Modern History. His father, Edward Compton Mackenzie, and mother, Virginia Frances Bateman, were actors and theatre company managers his sister, Fay Compton (whose son was Anthony Pelissier, Compton's nephew), starred in many of J. He was knighted in 1952.Įdward Montague Compton Mackenzie was born in West Hartlepool, County Durham, England, into a theatrical family of Mackenzies, many of whose members used Compton as their stage surname, starting with his English grandfather Henry Compton, a well-known Shakespearean actor of the Victorian era. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the National Party of Scotland along with Hugh MacDiarmid, R. Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, OBE (17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist.
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