Tour Scotland Video Whisky Galore Book Sculpture National Library Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of the Whisky Galore book sculpture on ancestry visit to the National Library in Edinburgh, Scotland. Whisky Galore is a novel written by Compton Mackenzie, published in 1947. The story was based on a real life incident that occurred in 1941 on the Hebridean island of Eriskay when the S.S. Politician ran aground. The famous tale of how a group of local Scottish islanders raided a shipwreck for its consignment of whisky has grown into a legend. Edward 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 grandfather Henry Compton, a well known Shakespearean actor of the Victorian era. His father, Edward Compton, and mother, Virginia Bateman, were actors and theatre company managers; his sister, Fay Compton, starred in many of J. M. Barrie's plays, including Peter Pan. He was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated with a degree in modern history.

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