It's interesting what survives from the life of a man such as the writer Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972).
‘Monty’ to his friends, he had an astonishing array of interests and achievements that could have furnished a dozen lives.
He's been a good deal written about of late: first, in a superb essay, ‘The forgotten genius of Compton Mackenzie’, published on the UnHerd website by writer and comedian Andrew Doyle; and more recently in the pages of the special centenary edition of, the monthly magazine devoted to records and recording, which Mackenzie founded in 1923.