Lorettonian Society

W (Bill) Parkhouse (Staff: 1983-2002) died of cancer on 15th July, 2016. He went up from Blundell's School in Devon to Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating M.A. in Natural Sciences. Before moving to Loretto he was an Assistant Master at Merchant Taylor's School in Middlesex from 1978 to 1983. At Loretto he was Head of Biology from 1983 to 2002 and Head of Science from 1993 to 2001. He was 2nd XI Cricket coach and an enthusiastic member of the staff on the annual Cricket F...

William M. Sloan (1949)

7th June 2016

William (Bill) McKerrow Sloan (1942-49) died on 3rd June 2016. He was in the XI and the fives team. He graduated with a degree in Agriculture in 1954 from the University of Cambridge (Emmanuel College). On 18th December 1956 he married Anne Francis Dorothy Vernon, they remained happily married for over 50 years until she died in 2008. In recent years he found happiness with a new partner, Jo, who survives him. He worked as Farm Manager for Peter Cazelet at Fairlawne Farm...

John Craigs (1947)

1st May 2016

John Craigs (1942-47) died on 1st May, 2016, aged 85 years. He was in the XI and the fives team and played for the Northumberland Hockey XI. He farmed Tritlington Hall near Morpeth and was Chairman of West Cumberland Farmers. He served as a Magistrate from 1970 until 1992, was a vice Chairman of the Morpeth Bench, Chairman of the Juvenile Panel, was a member of the Board Of Visitors to Acklington Prison and Chairman of the Board of Visitors at Castington, a youth Custody c...

James Campbell (1944)

1st May 2016

James (Jim) Campbell (1935-1944) died on the 1st of May 2016 aged 90. After leaving school he joined the Marines for National Service during which time he spent six months at Selwyn College, Cambridge on the Special Service Course. On discharge he had the opportunity to return to Cambridge but elected to join the family mining company working in Sierra Leone. He became Managing Director on the sudden death of his father John McKnight Campbell (1910) in 1949. He continued in ...

Mark Carmichael (1977)

23rd June 2008

Mark Carmichael (1975-77) passed away suddenly at home in Jersey, Channel Islands, on 23rd June, 2008, aged 49 years. He was a very successful oil & gas entrepreneur: having worked with Edeco plc, the oil and exploration and production services company, he founded Specialised Petroleum Services (SPS) in the mid-1990s. The company, which provides clean-up technology, was built up through a series of acquisitions at the turn of the decade and he had developed a number of very s...

Colin N.C. Mitchell (1943)

14th February 2016

Colin Neale Clare Mitchell (1940-43) who died on 14th February, 2016 aged 90 years, was in the XI and the Fives and Athletics teams. He left Loretto at 17 in 1943 to join the RAF. After training as a pilot, he served in Fighter Command from 1944 until 1980. He was selected for the Empire Test Pilots' School, established in 1943 at Boscombe Down. He held various staff appointments in the UK and overseas and he was RAF Equerry at Holyrood House for the General Assembly of the C...

William D. Cormie (1954)

25th April 2016

William (Bill) Dawson Cormie (1946-54) died on 24th April, 2016. He took an MA at the University of Edinburgh and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1981. He became Group Controller, McDermott International Trading Co. Inc. (Offshore Oil / Gas Services etc) from 1972 to 1985 and was Deputy Secretary (Corporate Affairs), of the Institution of Civil Engineers, from 1987 to 1999. He then became a financial consultant and honorary treasurer of various charities supporting...

Graeme S.F. Mackenzie (1942)

17th May 2016

Graeme Stuart Ferguson Mackenzie (1938-42) died peacefully in California on 9th August, 2015, aged 90 years. He was in the hockey, swimming, shooting and boxing teams, and was a Scottish Hockey Trialist. He went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on an RAF Short Course in Engineering and joined the R.A.F.V.R. as a Flying Officer, serving as a navigator in Canada and the U.K. He also graduated from Cornel University and qualified as a C.A. before attending the Swiss Hotel S...

Thomas Macgill (1943)

14th November 2015

Thomas Macgill (1939-43) died suddenly at his home in North Berwick on 14 November 2015, just two months before his 90th birthday.
His son, John (1981) writes: His time at Loretto was dominated by the War – and his desire that it should not end before he had had a chance to join the Royal Navy to play his part.
Playing rugby at Newfield in his first term, he witnessed the first German bomber to be shot down by the RAF being intercepted by fighters above the Forth.
Lore...

Duncan J. McLean (2013)

28th February 2016

Duncan James McLean (2007-13) passed away on Sunday 28th February aged 20 years. Duncan joined Loretto from Gullane Primary School in the Autumn Term of 2007 as a Golf Scholar and whilst at Loretto, he excelled at Golf, Rugby and Hockey and represented the School in all three sports. His real passion was rugby and he proved to be a real stalwart member of the 1st XV throughout the Sixth Form – a period that coincided with a very successful run for the team. Duncan was a very ...

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