I should first acknowledge the collection of scrapbooks that was left by Marc Anthony himself, upon which I was able to base most of the information about his life. Though there was a certain lack of arrangement and organization in his material, it was possible to deduce a great deal and the many newspaper clippings enabled me to identify essential details.

Janet Carolan, the archivist at the Dollar Academy in Scotland, where Marc went to school, was also able to search through their non­‐digitised records and dig up some further details, which were extremely useful and for which I extend my thanks, both to her and to the Archives of the school.

Through the wonders of modern technology, I was able to track down a couple of descendants of the extended Anthony family — namely E. Michael D. Scott and Peter S. Mosley, who also provided additional facts.

An added bonus of this is that I have been able to send some of Marc’s more personal family photographs to them in the hope that they can lay claim to some of the people pictured. Despite his enthusiasm for collecting records throughout his life, Marc was very poor at annotating them so that others might be more easily able to identify whose photographs and pictures he was gluing into his scrapbooks!

I would also like to thank my son, Jonathan, no mean writer himself, for casting a critical eye over my work and recommending editorial improvements.

Finally, my wife, Cyndi, who may have been happy to see me disappear frequently into my study over the last few months to work on this project, deserves appreciation for her forbearance nevertheless.

Colin L. Goddard
Victoria, Australia
May 2015