MacInnes, Colin, 1914-76, English novelist, b. London. Son of the novelist Angela Thirkell, MacInnes was educated in Australia and served in the British intelligence corps during World War II. He was best known for his "London novels," which delineate various types of London life. They display MacInnes's talent for acute observation, sympathy for the underdog, and interest in sociology. City of Spades (1957), for example, vividly depicts the life of black immigrants to England. The other "London novels" are Absolute Beginners (1959) and Mr. Love and Justice (1960). Three Years To Play (1971) is a novel set in Elizabethan London in which Shakespeare is a character. The essays collected in Out of the Way (1980) reveal MacInnes's broad concern with race, class, and crime.

MacInnes, Helen: see under Highet, Gilbert.

The Macinnes's Mouse-tailed Bat (Rhinopoma macinnesi) is a species of bat in the Rhinopomatidae family. It is found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, hot deserts, and temperate desert. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Source

• Aulagnier, S. 2004. Rhinopoma macinnesi 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 30 July 2007.