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Edward J.C. Garden (1948)
23rd September 2017
Teddy Garden, D.Mus.(Edin.), F.R.A.M., F.R.C.O., A.R.C.M., died peacefully at home, aged 87, on 23rd September 2017. He came to Loretto from Dalhousie Castle Prep School in 1943 as a Music Scholar and distinguished himself as a pianist at School. The Lorettonian relates that his piano solos at the School Concert in 1947 were encored. His contribution to the School music was recognised by the award of a gold medal.
He studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the University o...
Andrew Brooks (1953)
9th January 2017
Andrew Brooks (1945-1953), died in January 2017, at Raigmore hospital in Inverness. He served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Tank Regiment (Lothian and Border Horse and the Territorial Army) between 1956-1959. He farmed in the Lothians, Inverness-shire and the Orkney Islands, before owning and running the Stagehouse Inn at Glenfinnan (Lochaber). He ran the Inn between 1979-1990, refurbishing the premises and also enjoying being a ghillie on the nearby Loch Shiel. After this he ...
Gordon F. Sanderson (1964)
5th July 2017
Professor Gordon Frank Sanderson (1959-64) studied optics at the University of Manchester before moving to New Zealand aged 25 years to take up a lectureship in ophthalmology at the University of Otago. He made a huge contribution to the study and treatment of eyes and to training students in New Zealand and internationally. A whole generation of ophthalmology students acknowledged that it was the Professor’s teaching which encouraged them to pursue this speciality. In 201...
Robin B. Cowe (1948)
22nd May 2017
Robin Bruce Cowe (1944-48) died on 22nd May at the age of 86. He was a Prefect and in the XV, XI and Hockey and Athletics teams. He farmed in Berwickshire. He was awarded the M.B.E. for services to Farming and Conservation. He married Patricia (Paddy) Colman, daughter of the late Nippers Headmaster, Tim Colman. She was also an OL in her own right, having attended the Nippers from 1938 to 1943. She predeceased him. He is survived by his three children Trish Frew, Jane Field a...
Richard McCowan Hill (1970)
27th April 2017
Richard McCowan-Hill (1966-70) died on 27th April, 2017. He was in the XV.
He studied at the North of Scotland College of Agriculture in Aberdeen.
Aged 22 he embarked on a trip to sub-saharan Africa in a 1947 Bedford bus with a group of friends In the 8 months that followed they covered 28,000 miles through the Sahara, Niger, Central African Republic Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Zaire and Zambia where they were held up by the civil war before continuing on via Sudan, Keny...
Graham G. Cowie (1982)
7th April 2017
Graham George Cowie (1973-82) died on 7th April, 2017, after suffering ill-health for some time. Although he was a keen skier and in the swimming team, he is not remembered for his enthusiasm for sporting activities - though his appearances on the stage, particularly as Toad in Toad of Toad Hall in the Nippers, his general joie de vivre and his chortling amusement at school life are memories common to all his contemporaries. "The cheeriest of chaps who will be sorely missed."...
John J. Cockburn (1955)
3rd April 2017
John Jeremy Cockburn OBE (1951-55) died on 3rd April, 2017, aged 79. He was in the athletics team. He gained his ‘wings’ in 1957, aged 19, whilst serving in the R.A.F. after which he moved to Meteors and the Canberra bomber with 139 Squadron at RAF Binbrook. He was rated ‘above average’ as a bomber pilot. and flew the Canberra in the Battle of Britain flypasts in 1959 and 1960. He left the R.A.F. in 1961 to join Ferranti at Turnhouse as a test pilot to fly their Meteor i...
Ian F.C. Macpherson (1948)
14th April 2016
Ian Francis Cluny Macpherson C.B.E., O.St.J (1944-48) died in Hong Kong on 14th April, 2016. He was in the athletics team. After National Service as a Lieutenant in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in Nigeria and read History at Merton College, Oxford. He joined the Colonial Admin. Service, working in Tanganyika until its independence in 1962, when he moved to Hong Kong. He served there as Secretary for Transport, and Secretary-General of the Government Secretariat, r...
George D. Wetherill (Hon)
26th January 2017
George David Wetherill F.R.C.O., F.T.C.L., L.R.A.M., A.R.C.M. (Staff: 1967-79) died on 26 January, 2017, at the age of 80 years. Having been Director of Music at Kingham Hill School in Oxford and Wellington School in Somerset, David came to Loretto as Director of Music in 1967 following Teddy Garden (OL: 1948). Among his many musical successes were the 1969 production of Oliver and the 1978 production (with Oxenfoord Castle School to celebrate the opening of their theatre) o...
Alexander D. Foulis (1944)
9th December 2016
Alexander Douglas Foulis (1939-45) died on 9th December, 2016, at the age of 90 years. He was in the XV and XI and was Captain of Shooting. He left school on a Friday in 1944 and joined the Royal Artillery on the following Monday to serve as a Lieutenant in India – where he was taken ill in Doolally. In 1950, he joined Hunter & Foulis Ltd, Edinburgh, the family firm of printers and bookbinders, becoming, in time, Chairman and Managing Director. He served on the committee of ...
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