James Kennaway

James Peeble Ewing Kennaway (5 June 1928 – 21 December 1968) was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter. He was born in Auchterarder in Perthshire and attended Glenalmond College. Born to a middle class family in Auchterarder, his father was a lawyer who died when James was 12 years old. His mother was a doctor. He attended Cargilfield Preparatory School in Edinburgh from the age of 8. He was later head boy. He then attended Glenalmond College. At the age of eighteen James Kennaway was called up for two years of National Service. He initially served with his father's World War I regiment the Black Watch and then with the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders. He was commissioned into the 1st Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders.

After National Service James Kennaway attended Trinity College, Oxford to study Politics, Philosophy and Economics (1948). Here he met his future wife, Susan Edmonds and married her in 1951. Their son is the author Guy Kennaway.