Charlach Mackintosh

Charlach Mackintosh came from a famous skiing family and his father Charles, and siblings Douglas, Sheena, and Vora, were all Olympic skiers. Their mother was Lady Jean Douglas-Hamilton, daughter of the 13th Duke of Hamilton, and one of Charlach’s Godparents was Olympic gold-medal-winning athlete David, Lord Burghley.

Mackintosh served two years National Service in the Scots Guards (1954-56) and during that time won the British Army Ski Championship. He took part in both the 1956 Cortina and 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Olympics. Also, in 1960, he jointly won the British Ski Championship with Charles Palmer-Tomkinson. Mackintosh went to live in Canada after the 1956 Winter Olympics and started a new life where he worked for a petroleum company, and held various positions on several Alberta associations and organisations.