Ewart Alan Mackintosh
Lieutenant Ewart Alan Mackintosh MC( 4 March 1893 – 21 November 1917) was a war poet and an officer in the Seaforth Highlanders from December 1914.
Mackintosh was killed whilst observing the second day of the second Battle of Cambrai, 21 November 1917.
His best poetry has been said to be comparable in quality to that of Rupert Brooke.
His Life Ewart Alan Mackintosh was born on 4 March 1893, the only son of Alexander Mackintosh and his wife, Lilian Rogers.
Although he was born in Brighton in Sussex, his father's roots were from Alness in Ross and Cromarty.
His maternal grandfather was the preacher James Guinness Rogers.
He said that it was because of his grandfather's friendship with British Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, that he was given his first name.
He studied locally at Brighton College whilst also studying Gaelic and learning to play the pipes during the holidays.
He continued his studies at St Paul's School in London and then studied Classics at Christ Church, Oxford.
Mackintosh, who was a member of the University of Oxford Officers' Training Corps, tried to join the army immediately war broke out in August and while still in his university course.
He was rejected on the grounds of his poor eyesight.
He reapplied and was accepted by the Seaforth Highlanders, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 31 December 1914.
He served with the 5th( The Sutherland and Caithness Highland) Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders( a Territorial Force unit), which was part of 51st( Highland) Division.
He returned to Britain in August 1915 after being wounded in High Wood on the Somme.
He was stationed near Cambridge for eight months during which time he was training cadets and he became engaged to Sylvia Marsh who was from a Quaker family.
On 16 May he led a raid near Arras where fourteen of his men were wounded and two were killed.
One of them, David Sutherland, inspired a poem.
Mackintosh was now a temporary lieutenant and he received the Military Cross on 24 June 1916.
His citation in the" London Gazette" reads: Mackintosh had been trying to bring Sutherland, who had lost a number of limbs, back to the trenches.
Sutherland died of his wounds and had to be left; he has no known burial place, but is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
At the age of 23, Mackintosh regarded himself as a father to his men, and they affectionately called him" Tosh".
Sutherland was a Scot, but many of Mackintosh's other charges were from New Zealand.
One of Mackintosh's final poems,, appears to foretell his own death.
Mackintosh was killed in action on the second day of the Battle of Cambrai, 21 November 1917, whilst with the 4th Seaforth Highlanders.
He was there observing the heavy action near the village of Cantaing.
Cambrai was noteworthy in using new tactics including the first mass use of tanks.
He was buried in the Orival Wood Cemetery near Flesquières in northern France.
Chris Mackintosh
Charles Ernest Whistler" Christopher" Mackintosh( 31 October 1903 – 12 January 1974) was a Scottish rugby union internationalist, athlete, skier and bobsledder who competed in the 1920s and 1930s.
He won a gold medal in the four- man bobsleigh event at the 1938 FIBT World Championships in Garmisch- Partenkirchen.
Mackintosh also became Chairman of the Henry Lunn Alpine Tours company( part of the Lunn Poly group) and President of the Amateur Inter- Ski Club, the Kandahar Ski Club.
Mackintosh competed in skiing from 1923 to 1933.
He finished sixth in the men's long jump at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.
He married Lady Jean Douglas- Hamilton, daughter of Duke Alfred Douglas- Hamilton and his wife, the animal welfare activist Nina Poore.
Chris and Jean's four children, Sheena Mackintosh, Vora Mackintosh, Douglas Mackintosh, and Charlach Mackintosh all represented Great Britain in skiing events in the Winter Olympics.
The Mackintosh surname is not Scottish.
It is derived from Chris's paternal grandfather, Aeneas John Mackintosh and great grandfather John McIntosh.
Aeneas was a picture- framer from Bethnal Green, London who worked for and married Marie Anna Rochefort.
Her framing business traded as" Marian Rochefort".
David Ji
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In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Malcolm Pointon
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Daniel Guggenheim
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James MacLaren (architect)
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He was a major influence on Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and designed buildings in London, the Canary Islands, Stirling and Fortingall in Perthshire.
Martha Mackintosh
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She is the daughter of actors Steven Mackintosh and Lisa Jacobs.
John Cairney
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He has worked as an actor, recitalist, lecturer, director and theatre consultant.
He is also a published author and an exhibited painter.
Trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, he was a notable Hamlet at the Citizens' Theatre and a successful Macbeth at the Edinburgh Festival.
He was' This Man Craig' on television, while his many films include" Lucky JimA Night to RememberOperation Bullshine The Flesh and the Fiends VictimCleopatra" and" Jason and the Argonauts".
He gained a PhD. from Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand and is much in demand internationally as a lecturer, writer and consultant on Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Robert Burns.
Cairney has written books on many famous Scots as well as other books on football( particularly Celtic F.C.), theatre and his native Glasgow, where he now lives with his New Zealand- born wife, actress and scriptwriter Alannah O'Sullivan.
He is the brother of footballer Jim Cairney.
They were raised in the Parkhead area of Glasgow; the referee Tiny Wharton was a childhood acquaintance.
Robert James Mackintosh
Robert James Mackintosh( 1806- 1864), son of Sir James Mackintosh and his second wife, was a British colonial governor.
As Governor of Antigua, he was the viceroy in the Leeward Islands colony between 1850 and 1855.
He married Mary" Molly" Appleton, daughter of the American merchant Nathan Appleton and had a son Ronald.
Barbara Minty
Barbara Minty( born June 11, 1953), also known as Barbara Minty McQueen, is a former fashion model who was the third wife and widow of American film star Steve McQueen.
Minty was born in Seattle, Washington, and spent several years growing up in Corvallis, Oregon, graduating from Corvallis High School in 1971.
Minty was signed with power modeling agents Eileen Ford and Nina Blanchard and became an in- demand model, gracing the covers of dozens of magazines as well as advertisements in the 1970s.
McQueen saw Minty's photo in an advertisement and had his agent arrange a meeting with her.
A few months later they married, and she was by his side till his death.
She is the author of a book about their time together," Steve McQueen — The Last Mile".
In 2012, Minty joined forces with the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization in the fight to ban asbestos, which may have caused the cancer that killed her husband.

Question: Are Ewart Alan Mackintosh and Barbara Minty of the same nationality?
Answer: no