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Alasdair B. MacGregor (1956)
12th August 2002
Alasdair Bruce MacGregor F.R.C.S. (1951-56), who died suddenly on 12th August, 2002, was in the swimming team. After National Service in the Royal Navy, he graduated first from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He gained his MB, ChB from the University of Edinburgh in 1964 and was awarded the Annandale Gold Medal in Clinical Surgery. He was awarded the Maccabean Prize by the Society of Apothecaries, London, in 1966. After holding resident posts at Edinburgh Royal Inf...
Niall G. McLeod (1956)
1st June 2013
Niall Grant McLeod (1952-56) died on 1st June, 2013, in Harare, Zimbabwe, aged 75 years. Prior to Loretto he attended Edinburgh Academy and Craigflower. From Loretto he went on to Heriot–Watt College, qualifying as a F.R.I.C.S., before working with his father, Sandy McLeod, at William Arnott McLeod (Building Contractors) from 1965 to 1969, the third generation in the “family firm”. Upon its closure he emigrated to the then Rhodesia in 1970 to join his brother Angus (1964) and...
Graham Field (1955)
13th January 2001
Graham Field (1951-55) died on 13th January 2001. After leaving Loreto Graham did his National Service in Cyprus and managed when on leave to pursue his love of travel exploring Turkey as well as Cyprus. On his return to the UK he took up his place at the Architectural Association. He became an Associate of the London School of Architecture and an A.R.I.B.A. After graduating and some work in architecture he enrolled at the University of Edinburgh on the Civic Design course so...
Huntly Rainy Brown (1955)
29th May 2008
Huntly Rainy Brown (1950-55), who died on 29th May, 2008, was in the XV and athletics teams. He worked for many years for Standard Life and latterly for Ironside & Co. He is survived by his wife Jean, his OL son Dominic (1984) and brothers Duncan (1953) and Malcolm (1963).
Michael D. Adamson (1956)
30th April 2011
Michael Dewar Adamson (1951-56) died on 30th April, 2011. He worked for Commer Cars in the Bahamas before moving to the Chrysler Corporation where he spent most of his working life – firstly in Puerto Rico where he was also Honorary Royal Navy Liaison Officer from 1968-82. He moved between Michigan and Frankfurt, rising to become Export Marketing Manager and then a Vice President of the company, spending five years in Tokyo before retiring to Lake Tahoe in California. Michael...
George D. Anderson (1955)
21st February 2008
George Duncan Anderson (1947-55) died on 21st February, 2008. He lived in the Shetland Islands, and was manager of Yell Fisheries. He is survived by his wife, Ailsa, three sons, George, Keith and Neil, his twin brother Jim (1955) and brothers William (1955), John (Nipper 1954) and Sandy (1960).
Charles H.P. Bell (1957)
18th January 2009
Charles Henry Pearson Bell (1954-57) died on 18th January 2009. He lived and farmed in Northumberland and East Yorkshire, enjoying his work as well as sailing, horses and shooting. In his retirement he built and flew his own aircraft. He is survived by Dorothea (Micky) and his OL sons Simon (1987) and Edward (1988) and OL brothers Peter (1955) and Roger (1950).
Keith A.S. Deighton (1959)
8th November 2000
Keith Alexander Speir Deighton (1955-59), who died on 8th November, 2000 was a prefect and in the athletics team. Whilst reading Law at the University of Glasgow he worked in a law apprenticeship with Bird, Son and Semple, joining them on graduating and becoming a partner in 1967. He remained with the same firm throughout its various mergers to become senior partner in Bird Semple. His prime legal interests lay in family law, doing his utmost to bring about reconciliation,...
William M. Gibson (1959)
4th June 2002
William McAulay Gibson, (1955-59) who died on 4th June, 2002, was a prefect and in the swimming team. From Loretto he went up to the University of London, graduating LL.B. and later becoming an F.C.A. He was Financial Director of textile manufacturers Illingworth Morris plc. He is survived by his wife Barbara, who writes that he always talked very fondly of his time at Loretto, and his four children Andrew, Kirsty, Rory and Amy and one grandson, William.
George R. Henderson (1960)
31st October 2009
George Ronald Henderson (1955-60) died on 31st October, 2009, after a long illness. He was in the hockey, shooting and athletics teams: he held the pole vault record and was in the Scottish Schools’ Athletics Team v Welsh Schools’ team.  He studied Agriculture at the East of Scotland College of Agriculture in Edinburgh. Thereafter he ran the family farm at Kinnear in Fife. In his early years he was a keen water-skier before, as he put it, his athletics interests subsided into...
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