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Lionel H. Lawrence (1954)
2nd August 2012
Lionel Houston Lawrence (1949-54), who died in Australia on 2nd August, 2012., was a prefect and in the athletics team. He graduated B.A. from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, which he followed with post-graduate study at the University of Illinois and at Harvard University. In 1964 he was appointed Associate Professor and Chairman of the Theatre Department of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and moved to York University, Toronto in 1980 as the Dean of the...
John B. Sherriff (1954)
8th September 2011
John Baird Sherriff (1944-54), who died suddenly at home on 8th September, 2011, was in the Hockey XI and became a Scottish Hockey Trialist. He trained as a Chartered Accountant and became a director of Lincoln Investment Management in Gloucester. He was Secretary of the East of Scotland Branch of The Lorettonian Society from 1967-73. He was a keen advocate of the finer things in life and spent alot of his free time in retirement travelling or on the golf course at Muirfie...
Michael J. Walker (1954)
30th November 2012
Michael James Walker O.B.E., F.R.S.A. (1949-54) died on 30th November, 2012, after a very long illness borne with great courage. As Chairman of timber merchants James Walker (Leith) Ltd., which was founded by his great-grandfather, he was a leading figure in the timber trade and construction industry and made a significant contribution to timber research and development. After National Service he learned about the timber trade in Sweden where he was introduced to timber frame...
Rodrick M. Anderson (1953)
11th August 2013
Rodrick Mackinlay Anderson (1950-53), who died on August 11th, 2013, was in the XV and Hockey XI. He was a Director of the paper import and export company, Samab-Cia Industria e Comercio de Papel in Brazil. He was in the Rio de Janeiro Rugby XV and Field Hockey XI. He is survived by his wife Elisabeth, three children, Moyra, Evelyn and Alan and his four grandchildren Camilla, Natalie, Gregory and Kevin. Rodrick was a wonderful husband, father and grandfather, who loved to cam...
Charles I. Aitchison (1954)
1st August 2012
Dr. Charles Ingram Aitchison (1946-54), who died in August 2012, was in the shooting team. He graduated M.B., Ch.B. from the University of Edinburgh and later qualified M.R.C.G.P., D.C.H., D.Obst., R.C.O.G. His first ‘house’ jobs were in Edinburgh and South Shields, before training in paediatrics at the Babies Hospital in Newcastle and then Obstetrics in Dumfries. Charles briefly joined a practice in Annan then moved to Cockermouth where his love of the Lake District began. H...
Robert N.T. Thin (1953)
16th July 2010
Robert Nicol Traquair Thin OBE (1948-53) died on 16th July, 2010. He graduated M.B., Ch.B., M.D. from the University of Edinburgh and was in the Rowing IV. He later qualified F.R.C.P.(Edin.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.). He took up rowing at University and by 1958 he had become a formidable oarsman and represented Scotland in the British and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, competing in the coxed fours. He was President of the University Boat Club (which named one of its boats after him...
Frederic J. Duncan (1953)
1st November 2001
Dr. Frederic (Eric) J Duncan (1948-53) died on 1st November 2001 at the age of 66. At Loretto he played the French horn, piano and organ and had a reputation as a hard hitter of a hockey ball. He read chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, gaining a BSc (Hons) and PhD – and played a lot of golf! From 1961-63 he held a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. Returning to the UK, he joined ICI where he worked as a technical service...
Neil W. MacGill (1953)
17th October 2007
Professor Neil Whyte MacGill (1944-53) died in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, on 17th October, 2007. From Loretto he went up to Trinity Coll., Cambridge, graduating M.A. in Anatomy, English and Moral Sciences, then followed an M.A. (1st Cl. Hons, Mental Phil.) at the University of Edinburgh where he won the Class Medal in Logic & Metaphysics, the Bruce of Grangehills and Falklands Prize; he then went up to Lincoln Coll., Oxford as Campbell Fraser Scholar gaining a furth...
James Manuel (1953)
11th December 2004
James (Jim) Manuel (1945-53) died on 11th December, 2004. From Loretto he went on to the West of Scotland Agriculture College. He travelled and worked extensively abroad before returning to hill farming at Glen Mason and then Ballochyle where he married Kirsty (née Macintosh) and raised three children. Although principally a sheep farmer, Jim had a very diverse working career, Rhubarb Farming, Director of Hill Farmers Trust, a Governor of the Hill Farming Research Associa...
Eric Jacobs (1953)
28th February 2003
Eric Jacobs (1949-53) who died on 28th February, 2003, was a consummate journalist with both broadsheet daily and Sunday papers and an acclaimed literary biographer. After National Service in the Suez Canal Zone and the British Mission in Baghdad, he graduated from Pembroke College, Oxford, and worked as a leader writer on the Glasgow Herald from 1959-61, before moving to The Guardian where he specialised in industrial news, until 1965. From 1965-67 he worked for Barbara Ca...
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