Lorettonian Society

Keith McCallum Currie (1970-74) died suddenly at home on 25th November, aged 56 years. He came to Loretto from Crawfordton House, having sabotaged his interview at Glasgow Academy which he did not want to attend! He was in the golf team.
After attending Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University) and following qualification, he responded to an advertisement by Northern Rock for Management Trainees, becoming one of a small team of young men who were destined to take the...

Mathew J. Wilson (1972)

22nd February 2011

Mathew (Hew) James Wilson (1967-72) passed away on 22nd February, 2011, his 55th birthday, following a short illness. He farmed in Renfrewshire. He is survived by his mother, Jean,and his sister, Susan, who writes: "Hew's passion was fox hunting and he whipped in and was Master of the Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Foxhounds for a number of years. A brave and fearless rider across country, he was a very hard man to keep up with on the hunting field. He suffered from Crohn's...

James G. Keanie (1955)

14th July 2009

James Geoffrey Keanie (1945-55) who died on 14th July, 2009, was a prefect and in the XV, Hockey XI and Athletics and Shooting teams. He graduated AADipArch from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London. He was in no small part responsible for the regeneration of Glasgow in the 70s/80s in his role as Glasgow City Council's Private Housing Manager. He was Deacon of The Trades House in Glasgow in 1977 and a member of The Junior Chamber of Commerce. He is s...

Michael A. Macfarlane-Grieve (1953)

25th January 2006

Michael Anthony Macfarlane-Grieve (1950-53) died on 25th January, 2006. After Loretto he went to the West of Scotland Agricultural College and farmed throughout his life in Kirkcudbrightshire.

Alistair D. Johnston (1954)

19th August 2004

Alistair Duncan Johnston (1951-54) of Riverside, CT, and Rancho Santa Fe, CA died suddenly at his home in California on 19th August, 2004. After service in the Highland Light Infantry, he began a career in Reinsurance at Lloyds of London. He moved to the U.S. in 1961 to work for General Reinsurance where he became a vice president as well as president of Herbert Clough, a General Reinsurance subsidiary until he retired in 1997. An avid golfer, fly fisherman, and bicyclist a...

Dennis J. MacColl (1954)

29th December 2007

Dennis John MacColl (1951-54) died on 29th December, 2007, in Majorca where he had been living for several years - enjoying sailing, golf, swimming and socializing. He took a diploma in design at the Edinburgh College of Art. After National Service in the Royal Navy in the Suez Campaign, Dennis worked as Account Manager with Advertising Agencies John Haddon, Davidson Pearce Berry &Tuck and Lonsdale Crowther handling some of their major accounts. He then went into publishing ...

Thomas D. Campbell (1956)

27th July 2019

Professor Thomas Douglas Campbell (1947-56) who died on 27th July, 2019, aged 81 years, was a prefect and Captain of Hockey. After graduating M.A. from the University of Glasgow he went up to Balliol College, Oxford as a Snell Exhibitioner and returned to Glasgow to gain his PhD before taking up a post as Lecturer at Glasgow from 1966-73. His PhD thesis, entitled Adam Smith and the Sociology of Morals, was completed in 1969. He was subsequently appointed to the Chair of Philo...

Michael W. Ramage (1954)

29th June 2005

Michael Walker Ramage (1950-54) died on 29th June, 2005. After qualifying B.D.S. at Edinburgh University in 1959, where he was awarded the gold medal, he took up a Fulbright scholarship at the North Western University in Chicago and later worked at the Nuffield College of Surgical Science and the Royal College of Surgeons in London: he was an F.R.C.S. For 30 years he worked in his private dental practice in Edinburgh where he had a reputation of painstaking attention to det...

David B. Johnson (1954)

13th September 2007

David Brydon Johnson (1949-54) died on 13th September, 2007. He was in the XV, the XI and the swimming and shooting teams. He graduated BDS at the University of Durham in 1959 and later qualified RCS and DOrthRCS in Edinburgh in 1962 and became an FRCS in 1964. He was a Consultant Orthodontician at Bradford Royal Infirmary from 1966-70 and moved to St James’ University Hospital in Leeds from 1971-99. He is survived by his wife Jean and son Richard.

Iain D. Mackay (1954)

6th December 2003

Iain David Mackay (1949-54) died on 6th December, 2003 while out jogging. After leaving Loretto he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery as a National Serviceman. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Glasgow University and spent most of his career in selling and marketing positions with Francis Shaw in Manchester and Garrets in Suffolk. The final years of his career were spent with various firms in Suffolk, Manchester and Edinburgh before retiring to the Scottish bor...

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