| Nomination for Nobel Prize in Literature | 
| Year: | 1968 | 
| Number: | 42 - 4 | 
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Nominee:
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| Name: | Edward Montague Compton   Mackenzie | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1883 | 
| Year, Death: | 1972 | 
| Profession: | Writer | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB)  | 
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Nominator 1:
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| Name: | Edmund  Blunden | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1896 | 
| Year, Death: | 1974 | 
| Profession: | Professor of Poetry | 
| University: | University of Oxford | 
| City: | Oxford | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB)  | 
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Nominator 2:
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| Name: | Alexander Robertus  Todd | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1907 | 
| Year, Death: | 1997 | 
| Profession: | Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge | 
| University: | University of Cambridge | 
| City: | Cambridge | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB)  | 
| Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1957 | 
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Nominator 3:
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| Name: | Boyd  Orr (Lord) | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | Rector of Glasgow University | 
| University: | University of Glasgow | 
| City: | Glasgow | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB)  | 
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Nominator 4:
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| Name: | Alexander Norman  Jeffares | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1920 | 
| Year, Death: | 2005 | 
| Profession: | Professor of English literature | 
| University: | University of Leeds | 
| City: | Leeds | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB)  | 
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Nominator 5:
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| Name: | William   Walker Chambers | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1913 | 
| Year, Death: | 1985 | 
| Profession: | Professor of the German language and literature | 
| University: | University of Glasgow | 
| City: | Glasgow | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB)  | 
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Nominator 6:
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| Name: | Eric  Linklater | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1899 | 
| Year, Death: | 1974 | 
| University: | University of Aberdeen | 
| City: | Aberdeen | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB)  | 
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Nominator 7:
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| Name: | Malcolm  Muggeridge | 
| Year, Birth: | 1903 | 
| Year, Death: | 1990 | 
| Profession: | Rector of Edinburg University | 
| University: | University of Edinburgh | 
| City: | Edinburgh | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB)  | 
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Nominator 8:
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| Name: | Allistair  Mair | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Profession: | Author and president of Scottish P.E.N. | 
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Nominator 9:
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| Name: | Nigel  Tranter | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1909 | 
| Year, Death: | 2000 | 
| Profession: | Scottish author and historian, President of the society of authors (Scotland) | 
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Nominator 10:
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| Name: | Alan M. Boase | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1902 | 
| Year, Death: | 1982 | 
| University: | University of Glasgow | 
| City: | Glasgow | 
| Country: | UNITED KINGDOM (GB)  | 
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Nominator 11:
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| Name: | Moray  McLaren | 
| Gender: | M | 
| Year, Birth: | 1901 | 
| Year, Death: | 1971 | 
| Profession: | Scottish author and playwright | 
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