ASM
LINEAGE/GENEOLOGY
Father
1910-1974(as photographed by Howard Coster)
George Scott Moncrieff. Scottish. Author, poet, playwright, historian. A founding member of the Traverse Theatre Co and the Scottish National Party. Born and died in Edinburgh.
Mother
1939
Eileen Ward. American. Currently resides in Scotland. Artist/illustrator. Favored student of the Ashcan School's Raphael Soyer whilst studying at the Art Student's League in NYC 1958. BA in illustration, Edinburgh College of Art.
Cousin (paternal)
1900-1980 (Pictured here with his namesake ASM).
Admiral Sir Alan Scott Moncrieff. WWI midshipman on HMS Orion. WWII Captain of HMS Enchantress and then as Chief Signals Officer to Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten at Combined Operations Headquarters in 1941. Captain of HMS Faulknor in 1942. Appointed Commander of the Commonwealth Naval Forces serving in the Korean War in 1952 and Admiral commanding the Reserves in 1953. Latterly Commander-in-Chief, Far East Station in 1955.
Grandfather (maternal)
1906-2000
Keith Ward. American illustrator: Read with Dick & Jane, The Black Stallion, The Owl & the Pussycat, Reynard the Fox, Texaco, Borden's Dairy/Elmer's Glue, US Steel, LIFE magazine, Outdoor Life, Armstrong Tire, GM, Coca Cola Co, Saturday Evening Post, etc. Mentor & teacher to ASM.
Great uncle (paternal)
1889-1930
C.K. Scott Moncrieff. Scottish author & translator of Marcel Proust and other French literature. Injured whilst leading the 1st Battalion at the Battle of Arras, France, WWI. Died Rome 1930.
Great Grandfather (maternal)
1880-1974
Edwin Milton Ward. Born to English/Irish father and Iroquois mother in Canada 1880. As a young man took to the road as an itinerant photographer documenting ranchers, settlers and other Native Americans throughout the mid-west and western states using railroads and buckboard to reach outlying towns.
Ancestor
C19th
Mrs Scott Moncrieff. Notable for her very sensuous portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn. Her portrait hangs in the Royal Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Her husband Robert Scott-Moncrieff was an Advocate, Chamberlain to the Duke of Buccleuch from 1828-1869, and a justice of the Peace in Edinburgh.