SOURCE: “Compton Mackenzie Remembered,” in Tablet, Vol. 226, December 9, 1972, pp. 1174-75.

In the following obituary, Hollis provides personal reminiscences as well as a brief biography of Mackenzie's life.

Few among Monty Mackenzie's innumerable friends and acquaintances would dispute the claim that he was one of the most generous men of our time. He was generous in his unstinted physical hospitality, which he offered to all who called at his flat in Edinburgh, whether with invitation or without invitation. The last time that I saw him I found there a young journalist whom he did not know and who had called without invitation on no very clear errand. This young man announced that he had to catch a train to Glasgow and that he could only stay a minute. He accepted a drink and another drink and, hinting when the time for the Glasgow train came, made no attempt to...