Lorettonian Society

Professor Ross St.Clair Barnetson (1953-1958), who died on 1st October 2021, a few days before his 82nd birthday, did not enjoy Loretto. In spite of the efforts of Forbes Mackintosh and Peter Wood to redress the balance that they inherited, sportsmen too often ruled the roost at the school. Ross, a scholar, did not excel on the playing fields and his progress at Loretto was ordinary. Saving graces were the absorbing Biology lessons of Alex Gillespie and social refuge in the...

Alexander B. Carmichael (1962)

27th October 2021

Alexander (Sandy) Bennett Carmichael M.B.E. (1957-62), Loretto’s most famous Rugby player, died on 27th October, 2021at the age of 77 tears. He was a prefect, Captain of the XV and the Athletics Team and in the Hockey XI; he also played for the London Scottish XV. He studied Mechanical Engineering at Stow College in Glasgow and ran a plant-hire company, Sandy Carmichael Hire (Glasgow) Ltd.
He was a long-time member of the West of Scotland R.F.C. and played for the Glasgow X...

Thomas McKenzie-Dand (Hon)

4th October 2021

Thomas McKenzie-Dand (Hon., Staff:1970 — 84) died on 4th October, 2021.
Having graduated BSc from the University of Edinburgh and MSc from the University of East Anglia, Tom taught Chemistry. He was producer of many very successful School plays, including The Importance of being Earnest, Romanoff and Juliet, Orpheus in the Underworld, Julius Caesar, The Long and the Short and the Tall, Arthur Savile’s Crime and, most notably, Luther, which celebrated the opening of the Theat...

Douglas M. Morrison (1963)

28th September 2021

Douglas Malcolm Morrison (1959-63) died suddenly on 28th September, 2021, aged 74 years, He farmed at Amisfield, near Haddington, in his own innovative style. He was born in 1946 at Amisfield Mains. His father, an energetic farmer and contractor, was tragically killed in an accident in his light plane in 1947. Following time as a teenage assistant at AM Russell & Co Agricultural Engineers in Haddington assembling Claas combines, Doug attended the Edinburgh College of Agricul...

James Macnaughton (1954)

21st September 2021

James Macnaughton (1946–1954) passed away on 21st September 2021. He was Head Nipper and was later a School Prefect, in the Hockey XI, Captain of Fives and Pipe Major. After National Service as a First Lieutenant in the Black Watch he went up to Worcester College, Oxford, where he captained the University Fives Team, gaining a Half-Blue, played Hockey for the Oxford Occasionals and graduated with a BA in Modern Languages. Following a management training course with Reckitt a...

David K.D. Watson (1954)

18th September 2021

David Knight Dods Watson (1945-54) died on 18th September, 2021, at the age of 85 years. He was a prefect, member of the athletics team and played hockey for Edinburgh Northern and the Home Scots XI. He trained as a C.A in Edinburgh with Thomson McClintock and became a Fellow of the Institute of Internal Auditors. He moved to London in 1972 to work for Hawker Siddeley for a number of years and then became the Chief Internal Auditor for Lonrho plc. A keen golfer, he was a ...

Ian H. Dow (1965)

8th September 2021

Ian Hamish Dow (1960-65) died on 8th September, 2021, was in the XV, was Captain of Swimming (holding records for 100yds Freestyle; 100 & 50 yds Backstroke and 50yds Butterfly) and was in the Sailing Team. As CSM of the CCF, he won an RAF Flying Scholarship and went on to the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell, passing out First with two Special Prizes. He served in the RAF as a BAe 146 pilot and swam for the RAF team, retiring in the rank of Squadron Leader. Following ...

Ian M.H. Henderson (1954)

6th August 2021

Ian Maxwell Hume Henderson (1950-54) died peacefully on 6th August, 2021, at the age of 84 years after several years struggling with bad health. He served as a 2/Lt with the Royal Engineers (54-56) before graduating with a Masters from St John's College, Cambridge. He joined the Royal Dutch Shell Group as an Oil field Mechanical Engineer which took him to Nigeria, Borneo, The Hague, Aberdeen, Australia and London, returning to Aberdeen as Deputy Managing Director of Shell E...

Charles J. Hutchings (1954)

19th July 2021

Charles James Hutchings (1949-54) died unexpectedly whilst on holiday in Abersoch on 19th July 2021. He was a prefect, in the XI and the Hockey XI and JUO in the CCF. He studied at the Manchester College of Technology and after National Service in the South Lancashire Regiment he continued in the T.A. from 1957-68, retiring in the rank of Major. James spent most of his life in Birmingham: after working in the wire industry, he retired early and served for a very fulfilling 2...

Leslie J.K. Hastings (1951)

28th June 2021

Leslie John Kenneth Hastings (1948-51), passed away on 28th June, 2021, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. His wife, Gwen, writes: “He often reminisced on his years at Loretto and greatly enjoyed reunions with the dear friends he made there during many return visits to the United Kingdom with his wife Gwen.
John was born in Poona, India where he lived until the age of 10. His love of model trains began when he was invited to the birthday party of the Mir of Khaip...

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